Congress Quotes

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

But I made one mistake which I would never repeat as a member of Congress when I was in Washington, and that was when I was elected I didn't go on trips because I was so afraid of having someone accuse me of taking junkets.

I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress.

No man in America ever strove more, and more successfully first to bring about a Congress in 1765, and then to support it ever afterwards than myself.

Congress has greatly tightened the loopholes terrorists can use to harm Americans. We need to do more. We need controls immediately on what forms of ID are adequate to board planes and enter secure sites.

For me, the Congress party is now my life, the people of India are my life, and I will fight for the people of India and for this party.

I wish I could set deadlines for the Congress, but that's just not the way the Constitution is written.

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

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.

I don't believe in lobbying only progressives and liberal members of Congress. I don't believe in doing interviews only with those who share my views. I want to reach a wider audience.

Congress does investigations better than they do anything else.

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

Sometimes Congress likes to milk an issue.

Congress had the opportunity to extend tax relief to working families without increasing the deficit. Instead, we were handed a bill that favors the wealthy and eliminates deductions that benefit the middle class.

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.

I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.

Pentagon dollars are essentially seen as a different kind of funding that doesn't have to stand for itself and make an argument for itself in the house of Congress.

If Congress doesn't raise taxes, you cannot get a private investment account without forgoing a portion, possibly all, of your guaranteed benefit check.

The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all; to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.

The tax relief that this Congress has given now in terms of four tax cuts has overwhelmingly gone to the people at the very top of the income scale in America.

I said what I said before Congress because I meant every word of it.

When I testified in front of Congress, I know that I was testifying under oath and I told the truth.

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.

I would like to see this group in this Congress be starting the process to get ourselves on long term fiscal strong footing.

We're half the people; we should be half the Congress.

The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes of 2012.

I was sent there by the Free Congress Committee, headed by Paul Weyrich. Fred Smith and I were sent down as observers, with reporters' credentials, so we could witness the events.

Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.

If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

I'm more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yankees or Giants.

You know, I think many people have the mistaken impression that Congress regulates Wall Street. In truth that's not the case. The real truth is that Wall Street regulates the Congress.

Amendments occupy a great deal of most legislators' time, particularly those lawmakers in the minority. Members of Congress do author major bills, but more commonly they make minor adjustments to the bigger bill.

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

I ran for Congress, just once.

The new Congress needs to move quickly to strengthen the Army and Marines - not to send more troops to Iraq - but to rebuild our capacity to meet national security threats globally.

There is no getting around it; Congress is failing the American people.

A majority of senators should be able to adopt rules at the beginning of each Congress.

I have served in the Congress during two wars and I have seen the impacts on our military, on their families and on our national deficit.

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

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.

I probably hold more town halls than any member of Congress.

Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work.

Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation.

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

I think that Congress' ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary.

Those of us who are pro-life should demand more from Congress.

Most of what we report from Congress they don't care about unless it affects them directly.

The failed stimulus, along with Obamacare's long list of failures, show what happens when Congress passes laws in a rush.

What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?

People don't want Congress dictating what light fixtures they can use.

What is required from members of Congress and the public alike is a new spirit of devotion to the national welfare beyond party or self-interest.

Of course, the genesis of a good portion of the gridlock in Congress does not reside in Congress itself. Ultimate reform will require each of us, as voters and Americans, to take a long look in the mirror, because in many ways, our representatives in Washington reflect the people who have sent them there.

But in this Congress, accountability is just a catch phrase, usually directed elsewhere. Demands to personal responsibility or corporate accountability abound, but rarely congressional accountability or fiscal responsibility.

As a regent, I hope to bring that important perspective of a typical family visitor in combination with my background as a Member of Congress and a proponent of the Smithsonian's efforts to reach all Americans.

I come home every weekend and I still can't believe I represent Las Vegas in Congress. It's such a kick.

I have a reputation for being the hardest working person in Congress.

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.

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

Our mission, as set forth by the Congress is a critical one: to preserve price stability, to foster maximum sustainable growth in output and employment, and to promote a stable and efficient financial system that serves all Americans well and fairly.

I generally leave the details of fiscal programs to the Administration and Congress. That's really their area of authority and responsibility, and I don't think it's appropriate for me to second guess.

As parties began to develop around the turn of the 19th century, you had party nominees for President nominated in caucuses made up of party members in Congress.

Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king. And chicken soon joined them on the throne. It was during this period that the cycle of dietary and planetary destruction began, the thing we're only realizing just now.

Hey, well, I've been a pretty conservative member of congress.

For years, my colleagues and I - primarily Republicans but also some Democrats - have introduced legislation and written to the FCC asking the commission to cease attempts to regulate the Internet unless given the clear authority to do so by Congress.

I feel kind of like the black sheep in Congress, but here I am.

The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.

As a member of Congress, I believe it is the responsibility of those elected to represent the people at every level of government to ensure that our government works to ensure that every person who wants gainful employment has it.

It is time for Congress to provide relief for tobacco farmers. Since the 1930's tobacco production has been regulated by a quota system, which required farmers to purchase quota in order to grow tobacco.

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

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.

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.

I fundamentally believe in term limits, for Congress, presidents, and board members.

The Constitution I uphold and defend is the one I carry in my pocket all the time, the U.S. Constitution. I don't know what Constitution that other members of Congress uphold, but it's not this one. I think the only Constitution that Barack Obama upholds is the Soviet constitution, not this one.

This drug coverage program was clearly designed by Republicans in Congress to serve the interests of the drug and insurance industries. America's seniors were an afterthought.

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.