Congress Quotes

We are here simply to decide whether Congress should take the taxpayer dollars of millions of pro-life Americans and use them to fund the destruction of human embryos for research.

Serving in Congress has been more than an honor; it has been one of the most exhilarating experiences of my life ... It has been a wonderful ride. It has been a wonderful journey.

This Congress is out of control and in desperate need of adult supervision.

Five people in robes said they are bigger than the voters of California and Congress combined. And bigger than God. May He forgive us all.

Since Congress makes the laws they are under the delusion that anything they do is legal, no matter if it is unwise, unethical, or un-Constitutional.

My golf-loving friend Bob Hope asked me what my handicap was, so I told him - the Congress.

Every member Congress is under the threat of being destroyed by the Israeli lobby.

Ex-convicts prepared the eggs for the White House’s Easter Egg Roll. It’s nice to see the White House reaching out to former members of Congress.

[Mark] Twain called Congress "the only distinctly native criminal class in America. We've lately sent a United States Senator to the penitentiary." That was a fact.

I didn't leave the Congress; I was expelled.

Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.

If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to use themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations.

America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.

REAR, n. In American military matters, that exposed part of the army that is nearest to Congress.

Yes, [I am accusing the CIA of] misleading the Congress of the United States, misleading the Congress of the United States. I am.

The time is now for Congress to address health care in America.

From early on, everything I did was calculated to being elected to Congress.

If you tell Congress everything about the world situation, they get hysterical. If you tell them nothing, they go fishing.

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

It was the Congress that imposed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.

While Congress saw some need to loosen the standard in the initial days of a war, it wanted the president to comply with FISA in carrying out surveillance in the United States.

The laws of Congress are restricted to a certain sphere, and when they depart from this sphere, they are no longer supreme or binding.

If someone had told me in 1963 that one day I would be in Congress, I would have said, 'You're crazy. You don't know what you're talking about.'

The White House has something in common with the rest of America, and that is disdain for Congress. It is hard to blame them.

A school prayer amendment would confer upon public school boards a power the First Amendment now denies to Congress and the states, that is, the power to establish religion.

The Congress talks and talks and talks and talks, but doesn't act. I'm going to continue to work with my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to bring about comprehensive immigration reform.

The member of Congress who forgets his constituents' needs usually serves only one term.

I was in the Minnesota state Senate from 2000 until 2006. In 2006, I was urged to run for Congress, I did. And I've been here ever since.

Democrats may be in the minority in Congress, but we speak for the majority of Americans.

It has been a privilege beyond belief for me to have represented the State of Louisiana in Congress and to have been given the blessed assignment of U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See.

I believe it is incumbent upon Congress to act aggressively to ameliorate fear and help our country take the essential steps that will make our communities and lives safer.

During my first term in Congress, I signed a pledge that I will take no more earmarks and I've been faithful to that pledge.

Unfortunately a Constitutional amendment that would have empowered Congress to make desecration of the United States flag illegal failed to pass by one vote.

If the Republicans get control back of the United States Senate, we will no longer have a check and balance on the White House, on the Republican Congress.

Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.

The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.

With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.

Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill.

While Congress can't overturn the Supreme Court, we can provide carrots and sticks to prevent local governments from unfairly taking property from landowners.

A top geneticist at Stanford says human intelligence is declining. You know what that means? We are seeing Congress at its smartest and most effective right now.

It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.

It is time this Congress listened to the American people and minimum-wage workers, and it is time that we act.

Congress has not raised the minimum wage since 1997. The minimum wage is now at its lowest level in 50 years adjusted for inflation.

President Obama is asking Congress to support a military strike in Syria. If they approve, it will be the first time Congress has officially declared war since Obamacare.

The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress.

Our Congress is the finest body of men money can buy.

Jack Abramoff is going to testify against some of the other weasels in Congress. A lobbyist testifying against congressmen? How many Bibles are going to burst into flames in that courtroom?

Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to his materials.

Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.

I mean to say that Congress can hereafter decide whether any states, slave or free, can be framed out of Texas. If they should never be framed out of Texas, they never could be admitted.