Congress Quotes

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

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

Don't divide the world into 'them' and 'us.' Avoid infatuation with or resentment of the press, the Congress, rivals, or opponents. Accept them as facts. They have their jobs and you have yours.

In addition to demanding answers and accountability from the Veterans Administration, Congress had to act to ensure veterans do not suffer because of the actions of a federal agency.

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

Everyone in America seems to be joining an organization of some kind, and in Congress one hears from them all.

Congress needs strong parties, but it also needs the capacity to deal with budget and entitlement challenges that are likely beyond the reach of pure partisan exertion.

Newt Gingrich's job to capture the Congress was to give Republican candidates an edge and a distinction from their Democratic opponent. That required a very high profile, some very strong language.

Reducing health costs and increasing access to health care are worthy goals that every Member of Congress should support.

Last year, I co-sponsored the Highlands Conservation Act and in a bipartisan effort we passed the bill through Congress.

It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our Nation's number one public health problem.

Congress first took action against steroids by passing The Anabolic Steroids Control Act of 1990.

The result was, when Congress convened in January 1971, everyone was now an environmentalist. They had seen a new force, college students, who favored the environment.

The Congress will push me to raise taxes, and I'll say no, and they'll push, and I'll say no, and they'll push again and I'll say to them, read my lips, no new taxes.

[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation.

I put myself and all the members of Congress in the same boat of things that could have been done better.

I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.

The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today.

I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress.

Most of what Congress does fits the description of forcing one American to serve the purposes of another American. That description differs only in degree, but not in kind, from slavery.

Some day, the public might actually revolt against the undemocratic system of seniority that allows Congress to keep the old ways of Washington ingrained into the culture of Congress.

The salary of a member of Congress ends the day that he of she leaves office.

Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation power to starve the judicial budget.

As the first Member of Congress from western Washington to serve on the House Agriculture Committee in over 50 years, I am proud to represent the needs of our agriculture community.

If Congress does its job in this regard, the residents of Puerto Rico will be empowered to act in their own self-interest and express their future political status aspirations accordingly.

Well, I think the best thing we can do for the short term is move good energy legislation through to the Congress; I'm encouraged that there's some prospect for that now.

Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.

No issue is more important to this Congress than securing our borders and protecting our homeland, and I guarantee it is very important to our constituents.

Since President Bush took office in 2001, this Congress has supported an agenda of democracy, freedom and expansion of rights for all peoples throughout the world.

We in Congress need to support the American forces in every conceivable way, giving them the tools to continue to convert, capture or kill terrorists and the time to equip the Iraqi security forces.

I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.

Hardworking families can no longer afford to wait for a Congress that gridlocks on ideology. I look forward to working with my colleagues from both parties to get things done.

We need to be calling out the flaws and misguided decisions of the Democrats in Congress and the Obama administration.

I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.

The US is safest when Congress is in recess.

The Middle East is literally going up in flames, as is California, and Katrina's problems haven't been solved, and Congress' response is to criticize Federal judges.

Each year thousands of embryos, no bigger than the head of a pin, are created in the process of in vitro fertilization, with the support of Congress, by the way.

When you have a gutless Congress a lawless president can do pretty much what he chooses.

This Congress is simply not doing its job under Republican leadership.

I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.

Congress has lost its way if we don't hold this President accountable for his actions.

Congress is good at doing two things: one is nothing, and the other is overreacting.

In the liberal imagination, the money is the government's by default, and the president and Congress determine through the tax code how much to give back to the people.

What standards are upheld by the scientific community affect the community internally, and also affect its relations with society at large, including Congress.

I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering.

Congress should know how to levy taxes, and if it doesn't know how to collect them, then a man is a fool to pay the taxes.

In the United States large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation’s funeral at our expense.

Citizenship is no light trifle to be jeopardized any moment Congress decides to do so under the name of one of its general or implied grants of power.

After 20 years in Congress, I still believe that smaller government and lower taxes are the most effective economic policies.

Health care for all Americans is the most pressing domestic issue today. It's far past time for the President and Congress to deliver health care to everyone.