Congress Quotes

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.

The atmosphere is different in Congress after September 11. Terrorism is no longer an abstract issue, but a real, tangible threat.

If a trip is worth taking, members of Congress should be prepared to justify paying for it out of their office accounts.

There's a different leader in Syria now. Many of the members of Congress of both parties who have gone to Syria in recent months have said they believe he's a reformer.

I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment - the sober second thought - of the people.

To get Congress to do anything.

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

Sometimes running for Congress is a four-year strategy in terms of getting out there and building a network.

The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team.

Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.

Members of Congress must live according to the same laws as everyone else.

Sometimes Congress likes to milk an issue.

Congress consists of one-third, more or less, scoundrels; two-thirds, more or less, idiots; and three-thirds, more or less, poltroons.

Congress may be going home for the holidays soon. How can you beat a Christmas gift like that?

Serving in Congress has been the honor of a lifetime.

I have also come to understand Congress' need for a bipartisan as well as a partisan capacity.

In 2003, Congress authorized the construction of a visitor center for the Vietnam Memorial to help provide information and educate the public about the memorial and the Vietnam War.

There's not an appropriations bill in the last 10 years that the-that Democrats passed in the Congress. We haven't spent any money of your taxes in the last decade.

If they're willing to stand at polls for countless hours in the rain, as many did, then I should surely stand up for them here in the halls of Congress.

My last comment was, though, that Congress has cooked the books.

Promoting job creation and economic growth in the Hudson Valley is one of my top priorities in Congress.

In foreign affairs, the president can do what he wants unless Congress says no. In domestic policy, the president can't do anything unless Congress says yes.

Charity requires sacrifice, and members of Congress could set a good example of charity by giving up their pay increase.

I came to Congress to help reduce spending.

Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.

When we look at how, constitutionally, only Congress can declare war, and that is routinely ignored. Not NATO or the UN, but Congress has to authorize these endless wars, and it isn't.

Congress doesn't regulate Wall Street. Wall Street regulates Congress.

Anytime a large, emergency spending bill makes its way through Congress, the potential for mischief is great.

We should go forward in courts and Congress with investigations into post-9/11 interrogations and the decisions leading to them.

What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law to be.

I had taken on the color of the climate around me and had driven back all the emotion that rose from the Brooklyn streets so that I could belong to the exclusive club of Congress.

You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the President. Every year they don't balance the budget, we don't pay them.

Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.

I do not suspect that Jefferson or Madison ever envisioned Congress honoring the 2,560th anniversary of the birth of Confucius or supporting the designation of National Pi Day.

I believe we [americans] are strongest as a nation, when the president and Congress work together.

Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress.

Apparently there are three levels of brain activity. Level 1 is the lowest level - the amount of concentration required to, say, delete emails or serve in congress.

I mean, look, Nancy Pelosi said in the very beginning this is going to be the most open, honest and ethical Congress in history. And what we're seeing is she's breaking that promise every day.

The truth is that America has been closely divided politically for quite some time. That was reflected in some of the challenges I had with the Republican Congress.

I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate.

The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.

I am a very lucky guy. I can testify before Congress. I can raise funds. I can raise awareness.

The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.

Congress wants to keep "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance. Washington politicians are united in their faith. Most worship the same reelection.

If anything is going to halt necessary investments in next generation networks it will be Congress dictating business models to companies.

The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythical beans into it, then reaches in and tries to pull real ones out.

The people can change Congress but only God can change the Supreme Court.

The Pentagon today will not allow any of these people who work for the Pentagon, to talk to the media. They have gagged them from talking to members of Congress.