Congress Quotes:

Perhaps our Congress will be Exalted on a high Gallows.

- Abraham Clark

topic: Gallows, Congress

Freedom is always wise.

- Alexander Meiklejohn

topic: Wise, Congress

And always remember, Abraham Lincoln only served one term in Congress, too.

- Allen West

source: "What Rep. Allen West And Obama Have In Common". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. December 7, 2012.

topic: Remember, Congress, Abraham

Congress is furious at the Secret Service for consorting with hookers, which has traditionally been Congress's role.

- Andy Borowitz

source: FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Apr 18, 2012

topic: Secret, Roles, Congress, Secret Service

In Congress, I was a relentless advocate for fiscal responsibility.

- Ann Kirkpatrick

topic: Responsibility, Relentless, Congress, Fiscal Responsibility

The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision rejected Congress' findings and its method of reasoning, .. Is there any real justification for the court's denigrating Congress' 'method of reasoning'?.

- Arlen Specter

topic: Real, Decision, Congress

It is not true that Congress spends money like a drunken sailor. Drunken sailors spend their own money. Congress spends our money.

- Arthur Laffer

topic: Money, Sailor, Congress

I could say, as a member of Congress, we usually get an alert if something is going to happen at the Capitol.

- Barack Obama

topic: Congress, Members, Capitol

Serving in Congress is like having a second shot at high school.

- Barney Frank

topic: School, Political, Congress, Serving

You can't repeal human nature by an Act of Congress.

- Bernard Baruch

topic: Government, Human Nature, Congress

The Senate being tied is a start. Now, if only it could be gagged.

- Bob Thaves

topic: Congress, Senate

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

- Bobby Jindal

topic: Law, Congress, Members

When I ran for Congress I promised to help make health care affordable again.

- Bobby Jindal

topic: Care, Helping, Congress, Affordable

I am the first podiatrist to serve in the U.S. Congress.

- Brad Wenstrup

topic: Firsts, Congress

Your brother doesn't have to be speaker for your voice to be heard in Congress

- Candace Gingrich-Jones

topic: Brother, Voice, Congress

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

- Carl Albert

topic: Congress

Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected.

- Charles Krauthammer

topic: Law, Should, Congress

Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public.

- Charles M. Vest

source: "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

topic: Goal, Research, Congress, General Public

The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.

- Charles Sumner

source: Nassau William Senior, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe, Charles Sumner (1856). “American slavery: repr. of an article [by N.W. Senior, entitled Slavery in the United States] on 'Uncle Tom's cabin' [by H.E.B. Stowe] and of mr. Sumner's speech of the 19th and 20th of May, 1856. With a notice of the events which followed that speech”, p.143

topic: People, Slavery, Congress

Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.

- Charley Reese

topic: Men, Want, Congress, Unconstitutional, High Taxes

Ultimately it all comes down to money, ultimately it all comes down to lab capacity. One thing we are clear about is if that money were to pass (in Congress), thousands of lives will be saved.

- Chris Asplen

topic: Labs, Congress, Capacity

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

- Chris Chocola

topic: United States, Significant, Congress

Congress has changed the Social Security system over time, and over 20 times in the past Congress has raised taxes on Social Security in payroll taxes into the system.

- Chris Chocola

topic: Past, Social, Congress, Security Systems, Payroll

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

- Christine Pelosi

topic: Decision, Should, Congress

If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything-and the Federal Government is no longer one of limited and enumerated powers.

- Clarence Thomas

topic: Government, Politics, Congress

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

- Crystal Eastman

source: Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution”, Oxford University Press, USA

topic: Aggravation, Congress

Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of marijuana... We should concentrate on prosecuting the rapists and burglars who are a menace to society.

- Dan Quayle

topic: Marijuana, Should, Congress, Marijuana Legalization, Marijuana Prohibition

I have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency.

- Dan Quayle

topic: Congress, Jack Kennedy

I came to Congress to help reduce spending.

- Dave Reichert

topic: Helping, Congress, Spending

This is all disgraceful and underscores how imperative it is that Obamacare be fully repealed and that the newly elected GOP Congress get a backbone and stand up to this cadre of scofflaws.

- David Limbaugh

source: David Limbaugh (2015). “David Limbaugh: The Conservative Word”, p.178, Creators Publishing

topic: Obamacare, Notable, Congress, Cadre

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

- David Price

topic: Needs, Congress, Capacity

To stabilize the nations public-employee pension systems and to prevent federal taxpayers from being billed for failed pension funds, I have introduced the Public Employee Pension Transparency Act in Congress.

- Devin Nunes

topic: Congress, Taxpayers, Employee

It's awfully hard to convey a sense of credibility to allies when you [the Congress] voted for the war and then you declared: Wrong war, wrong place, wrong time.

- Dick Cheney

topic: War, Allies, Congress

Since September 11th Congress has created the Department of Homeland Security, more than doubled the homeland security budget and implemented a bipartisan overhaul of our intelligence systems.

- Doc Hastings

topic: September, Congress, Homeland Security, September 11th, Department Of Homeland Security

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

- Ed Gillespie

topic: Running, Wife, Congress, Cathy

It's disgraceful that year after year, Congress has bowed to the tobacco lobby and refused to act.

- Edward Kennedy

topic: Years, Smoking, Congress, Quit Smoking, Tobacco

Pigs are smarter than dogs, and both are smarter than Congress.

- Elayne Boosler

topic: Dog, Pigs, Congress

Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing, after all.

- Eugene Field

source: Eugene Field (1967). “The complete Tribune primer”

topic: Jail, Congress

One of my big beliefs about Washington is that we highly overstate the power of individuals and highly underrate seeing Washington as a system, in general, but, in particular, we highly underrate the power of Congress,

- Ezra Klein

topic: Belief, Individual, Congress

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

- Fay Vincent

topic: Baseball, Aggravation, Congress, Terrible Day

I'm just going to let my record in Congress speak for itself.

- Grace Meng

topic: Records, Speak, Congress

I have a Congress on my hands.

- Grover Cleveland

topic: Government, Hands, Congress

To get Congress to do anything.

- Helen Keller

topic: Congress

And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen a quarter of a century ago would have regarded as utopian.

- Hjalmar Branting

topic: League, Congress, Quarters, Quarter Of A Century, Annuals

It's a lie! I am not an anti-Semite. The World Jewish Congress supported me and said that I am not anti-Semitic.

- Hugo Chavez

topic: Lying, World, Congress

Congress doesn't hate Congress.

- Jack Abramoff

topic: Hate, Congress

If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.

- Jack Kemp

source: "In Their Own Words; Excerpts From The Remarks By Housing Secretary Kemp", www.nytimes.com. August 19, 1992.

topic: America, United States, Congress

Most people are far more concerned that they can control their own bodies than they are about petitioning Congress.

- Jacob M. Appel

topic: People, Body, Congress

Parliaments are in all cases to declare what is good for the whole; but it is not the declaration of parliament that makes it so.

- James Otis

topic: Legislature, Parliament, Congress

Congress is back in season.

- Jane Ace

topic: Congress

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.

- Jay Leno

topic: Mean, Congress, Stanford, Human Intelligence

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

- Jim Cooper

topic: Jobs, Republican, Congress

There are more whooping cranes in the United States of America than there are women in Congress.

- Joanna Russ

source: "The Female Man". Book by Joanna Russ (Part 4, Chapter 8, p. 61), February 1975.

topic: America, United States, Congress

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

- John Breaux

topic: Done, Boat, Congress

The Congress has now become a fairly evenly divided entity.

- John Dingell

topic: Aggravation, Congress, Entity

Congress never loses its capacity to disappoint you.

- John Oliver

topic: Congress, Capacity, Disappoint

Congress is the Justin Bieber of our government

- Jon Stewart

topic: Government, Congress, Justin

We have to change the system. The system is very rotten. The executive is corrupt, the Congress is corrupt, the judiciary is corrupt. ... So what's left We really have to have a radical and surgical change to bring back the image of our country.

- Joseph Estrada

topic: Country, Rotten, Congress, Judiciary, Our Country

People like Congress more than their health insurance companies.

- Joshua Kushner

topic: People, Lessons, Congress, Insurance Companies, Health Insurance Companies

When women go off together we call it separatism. When men go off together we call it Congress.

- Kate Clinton

topic: Men, Together, Congress

Congress can't take the year off, election or no election.

- Kay Bailey Hutchison

topic: Years, Election, Congress

I would love to do an unauthorized biography about Congress... It's like a secret society up there.

- Kitty Kelley

source: "Kelley pulls curtain back on Camelot" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. December 17, 2012.

topic: Secret, Biographies, Congress

Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry

- Laura Ingraham

source: "Laura Ingraham Throws Down With Matt Lauer on Today". "Monday's Today" with Matt Lauer, www.newsbusters.org. March 29, 2010.

topic: Thinking, People, Congress

Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again.

- Lawrence Lessig

topic: Long, Congress, Copyright, Expired

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

- Lyn Nofziger

topic: President, Congress

I don't think the only place to fight for freedom is in the halls of Congress.

- Malcolm Wallop

source: "Wyoming's Senator Wallop Won't Run in '94", www.nytimes.com. 1993.

topic: Fighting, Thinking, Congress, Fighting For Freedom

A competition of the best ideas - that should be what Congress is about.

- Mark McKinnon

topic: Ideas, Competition, Congress

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

- Mark Udall

source: "Calling It Like I See It: Congress, the Tea Party, and the Way Forward" by Mark Udall, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 25, 2011.

topic: People, Failing, Congress

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

- Marty Meehan

topic: Today, Excess, Congress

I'm no lady; I'm a member of Congress, and I'll proceed on that basis.

- Mary Norton

topic: Justice, Members, Congress

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.

- Michele Bachmann

source: "Rep. Michele Bachmann Talks Earmarks, Obamacare and Gay Marriage; Sen. Kyl on Debt Talks". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. June 26, 2011.

topic: Faithful, Firsts, Congress, Pledge, Earmarks

Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay

- Milton Friedman

topic: Pay, Fractions, Congress, Tax Day, Taxes Funny

Congress is my ideological home; I come from a Nehruvian family.

- Nandan Nilekani

topic: Home, Congress, Ideological

Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public.

- Nate Silver

topic: Opportunity, Remember, Congress

The Congress is pretty powerful if it wants to be.

- Newt Gingrich

topic: Powerful, Want, Congress

Nothing but widespread suffering will produce any effect on Congress

- Nicholas Biddle

topic: Political, Suffering, Congress

Congress is not a party which fades when not in power

- P. Chidambaram

topic: Party, Congress

There are even more fatalities from cirrhoses of the liver [than automobiles], yet Congress has not once mentioned outfitting us all with anti- alcohol equipment.

- Patrick Bedard

topic: Government, Alcohol, Congress, Cirrhosis, Fatality

If you have given up your militia, and Congress shall refuse to arm them, you have lost every thing. Your existence will be precarious, because you depend on others, whose interests are not affected by your infelicity.

- Patrick Henry

topic: Arms, Congress, Given, Precarious

A territory cannot become a state or a nation unless Congress approves legislation and the president signs it.

- Pedro Pierluisi

topic: President, Territory, Congress

Obviously, overall infrastructure needs on the Southwest and Northern borders are mounting. We need a major push in Congress to remedy this.

- Pete Domenici

topic: Borders, Needs, Congress

Our runaway judiciary is badly in need of restraint by Congress.

- Phyllis Schlafly

topic: Needs, Runaway, Congress, Judiciary

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

- Rafael Palmeiro

topic: Congress, Oath, Testifying

The Congress as I see, does not belong to me or to you, but it belongs to the whole country.

- Rahul Gandhi

topic: Country, Doe, Congress

The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.

- Ralph Nader

topic: Congress, Consumers

Congress: Bingo with billions.

- Red Skelton

topic: Bingo, Congress, Billions

I represent more Native Americans than anyone else in Congress.

- Rick Renzi

topic: Native American, Congress, Native

Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?

- Robert Byrd

topic: Approval, Wonder, Congress, Recess

Congress is not an ATM.

- Robert Byrd

source: "Senators ask tough questions", www.cnn.com. September 10, 2003.

topic: Atm, Congress

Congress is best viewed from a distance—the farther the better—because up close, it is truly ugly,

- Robert M. Gates

topic: Distance, Ugly, Congress

Barbara Comstock is a solid and reliable conservative. I've known her for many years. She'd make a great member of Congress. I am happy to join other conservatives and proudly endorse her candidacy.

- Sean Hannity

topic: Years, Conservative, Congress, Candidacy, Barbara

Congress is like first grade, only not as well behaved.

- Sean Patrick Maloney

topic: Firsts, Grades, Congress

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

- Serge Lang

source: Serge Lang (2012). “Challenges”, p.243, Springer Science & Business Media

topic: Community, Standards, Congress

The Congress is a power-oriented party.

- Sharad Pawar

topic: Party, Congress

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

- Sharad Pawar

topic: Congress

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

- Shelley Berkley

topic: Reputation, Congress, Hardest

I ran for Congress, just once.

- Shirley Temple

topic: Congress, Ran

Congress is responsible for every major change in India

- Sonia Gandhi

topic: India, Responsible, Congress, Major Change

I hope to continue to be serving South Dakota in Congress.

- Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

topic: Congress, South Dakota, Dakota

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

- Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

topic: Government, Sticks, Congress

When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out.

- Tammy Baldwin

source: "Democratic U.S. Rep. Baldwin Joins Wisconsin Senate Race". www.foxnews.com. September 06, 2011.

topic: People, Firsts, Congress

Congress requires states to draw single-member districts.

- Thomas E. Mann

topic: Members, States, Congress

With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high.

- Thomas E. Mann

topic: Party, Majority, Congress, Parity

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

- Tom Udall

topic: Able, Majority, Congress

[Congress] is not the British Parliament, and I hope it never will become the British Parliament... Are we going to bring the president in here and have a question period like the prime minister has in Great Britain?

- Trent Lott

source: "A Jolly Good Show, but the Wrong Side of the Pond" by Dana Milbank, www.washingtonpost.com. June 12, 2007.

topic: President, British Parliament, Congress

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

- Virgil Goode

topic: Office, Salary, Congress

The retirement system that is in place for members of Congress and other federal workers features what is known as the Federal Employment Retirement Plan.

- Virgil Goode

topic: Retirement, Employment, Congress

As Negro voting increased, Congress got an improved sense of hearing.

- W. E. B. Du Bois

topic: Voting, Hearing, Congress

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.

- William J. Brennan

topic: Class, Decision, Congress

I think he [Donald Trump] recognizes that a plan that would increase the deficit by $10 trillion over a decade is not a plan that's likely to get traction in Congress.

- Avik Roy

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Thinking, Increase, Congress, Traction

Librarian of Congress: It's a librarian's dream.

- Carla Hayden

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Dream, Librarian, Congress

I like shitty strip clubs. They look like what they are. I know what to expect. Unlike Congress, at least we know everybody is for sale.

- Dov Davidoff

topic: Looks, Clubs, Congress

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

- Edward Brooke

topic: Needs, Forget, Congress

Stiffening the spine of progressive members of Congress is crucial.

- Ezra G. Levin

source: Source: m.motherjones.com

topic: Progressive, Congress, Spine

You have to be local. You have to focus on your local members of Congress.

- Ezra G. Levin

source: Source: m.motherjones.com

topic: Focus, Congress, Members

We`re the ones who can fire [Donald Trump]. We`re the ones who can fire members of congress.

- Joe Madison

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Fire, Congress, Trump

The Democrats - Democrats on board, the Congress said tax policy.But their tax policy was pretty bad, that added $800 billion to the deficit.

- Lawrence O'Donnell

topic: Boards, Congress, Said

Unfortunately, Congress is protecting the profits of those opposed to protecting the planet.

- Ray Metcalfe

topic: Congress, Profit, Planets

I am Congress; I'm president.

- Waka Flocka Flame

topic: President, Congress

As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education.

- Mark Kennedy

topic: Tradition, My Family, Congress

If bribery is good enough for Congress, it's good enough for me.

- Eddie Griffin

topic: Good Enough, Congress, Bribery

Congress has no power to make any religious establishments.

- Roger Sherman

topic: Religious, Father, Congress

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

- Roone Arledge

topic: Aggravation, Care, Congress

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

- Roy Blunt

topic: Hey, Conservative, Congress

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

- George W. Norris

topic: People, Congress, Court, People Can Change

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

- Samuel Alito

source: U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 11, 2006.

topic: Thinking, Reason, Congress

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.

- Jim Babka

topic: Law, Matter, Congress, Unethical

All I can say is that with business and the interest of any party before me, I will consider and apply the law as it is written by Congress and informed by precedent.

- Sonia Sotomayor

source: Hearings, latimesblogs.latimes.com. July 14, 2009.

topic: Party, Law, Congress

We don't need a "New Covenant." We need a new Congress.

- Pat Robertson

topic: Needs, Covenant, Congress

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?

- Jay Leno

topic: Flames, Lobbyists, Congress, Testifying, Weasels

Too much screaming in Congress. Too much screaming everywhere.

- Jeffery Deaver

source: Jeffery Deaver (2011). “Edge: A Novel”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

topic: Too Much, Congress

Look. I have always rejected the argument that members of Congress cast their vote because they're Jewish or not Jewish. I didn't cast my vote as a Jewish member of Congress. I cast my vote as a member of Congress.

- Steve Israel

source: "Rep. Steve Israel Condemns Use Of Iran Nuclear Deal As A 'Cheap, Partisan Stunt'". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. September 11, 2015.

topic: Vote, Argument, Congress

We talk about our military being degraded over time, and yet we've had folks who've been a part of Congress who have participated in sequester; who participated in the degrading of this military over time.

- Chris Christie

source: Chris Christie's remarks during the CNN-Facebook Republican Presidential Second Debate at the Venetian Las Vegas hosted by Wolf Blitzer, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

topic: Military, Congress, Folks

[Congress] can just make [Mitt] Romney president. And we'd be like, "All right, fine."

- Jen Kirkman

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: President, Congress, Fine

Anybody that brings up amnesty in this Congress, we need to just take the scarlet 'A' for amnesty and pin it on them.

- Steve King

source: "Conservatives at CPAC Rally for Border Enforcement" by Kelley Beaucar Vlahos, www.foxnews.com. February 10, 2011.

topic: Needs, Amnesty, Congress

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

topic: President, Privilege, Congress

It was fascinating what a total interest he [John F. Kennedy] had in his tradecraft of being a politician. I didn't realize before that he was working on his memoirs all along, how he ran for Congress, that sort of thing.

- Chris Matthews

topic: Realizing, Politician, Congress

The universe is holding congress with itself.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Buddhism, Science, Congress

Washington D.C.! Congress is full of self-declared outsiders.

- Aleksandar Hemon

source: "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Aleksandar Hemon". Interview with Rachel Dewoskin, therumpus.net. April 14, 2013.

topic: Self, Outsiders, Congress

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

- Alexander Hamilton

source: Alexander Hamilton, Morton J. Frisch (1985). “Selected writings and speeches of Alexander Hamilton”, Aei Pr

topic: Law, Spheres, Congress

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.

- Colin Powell

source: "Colin Powell: I Have ‘No Problem With’ Gay Marriage" by Luke Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2012.

topic: Outcomes, Congress, Recommendations

it is a longstanding principle that sitting national security advisers do not testify before the Congress.

- Condoleezza Rice

source: "Rice Leads Counterattack". "60 minutes", www.cbsnews.com. March 28, 2004.

topic: Principles, Sitting, Congress

Fundamental relationships are being called into question, as is the very basis of marriage and the family. I can only reiterate the importance and, above all, the richness and the beauty of family life.

- Pope Francis

source: Address to a Joint Meeting of the U.S. Congress, delivered 24 September 2015, Washington, D.C.

topic: Fundamentals, Congress, Family Life

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

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Men, Body, Congress, Misdemeanors, Senate

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

- Joe Walsh

topic: Towns, Congress, Members

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.

- George H. W. Bush

source: 1988 Republican National Convention Acceptance Address, delivered 18 August 1988, Superdome, New Orleans, LA

topic: Lips, Congress, Taxes, Raising Taxes

Women administer the home. They set the rules, enforce them, mete out justice for violations. Thus, like Congress, they legislate; like the Executive, they administer; like the courts, they interpret the rules. It is an ideal experience for politics.

- Margaret Chase Smith

topic: Home, Justice, Congress

Oh, if only I could be President and Congress, too, just for ten minutes.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: President, Minutes, Congress

The question is who ought to make that decision, the Congress or the commanders? And as you know, my position is clear. I'm a commander guy.

- George W. Bush

source: "Veto Sustained, Bush Sits Down with Lawmakers". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. May 2, 2007.

topic: Guy, Decision, Congress

I cut the taxes on everybody. I didn't cut them. The Congress cut them. I asked them to cut them.

- George W. Bush

source: George W. Bush “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, George W. Bush, 2004, Book 2, July 1 to September 30, 2004”, Government Printing Office

topic: Cutting, Congress, Taxes

Congress has scarcely any thing to employ them, and complain that the place [Washington, D.C.] is remarkably dull.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Complaining, Dull, Congress

You had to be tough to be a female member of Congress.

- Geraldine Ferraro

source: Geraldine Ferraro, Linda Bird Francke (1985). “Ferraro: My Story”, p.43, Northwestern University Press

topic: Female, Tough, Congress

Congress shall pass no law that exempts themselves!

- Rand Paul

topic: Law, Congress

Congress shall also create a tax code weighing more than the combined poundage of the largest member of the House and the largest member of the Senate, plus a standard musk ox.

- Dave Barry

source: Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway”, p.34, Ballantine Books

topic: House, Musk, Congress

The thing about an executive order - there has never been an executive order that a Congress couldn't say, "You know, we don't like that so we're going to do something else," if there is a majority in Congress to do something else.

- Tim Kaine

source: Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

topic: Order, Majority, Congress, Executive Orders

Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session.

- Mark Twain

topic: Liberty, Danger, Congress

When congress is in session no American is safe.

- Mark Twain

topic: Safe, Congress, Session

Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain, Paul Fatout (1997). “Mark Twain Speaks for Himself”, p.50, Purdue University Press

topic: Rooms, Whiskey, Congress

I could be an idiot, or I can serve in Congress, but I repeat myself.

- Mark Twain

topic: Idiot, Congress, Repeats

Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.

- Mark Twain

topic: Men, Congress, Distinction

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

- David Duke

topic: Congress, Members, Threat

Aren't we supposed to believe that if you are an elected official, if you serve in Congress, you are representing all the people of your district not just the people who voted for you, not [just] the people who you agree with?

- David Duke

source: "Dr. Duke on CNN: Hear the UNCENSORED FULL Interview Here". CNN Interview, davidduke.com. January 5, 2015.

topic: Believe, People, Congress

I believe that Congress will and must act before then to renew its objections to multiple and discriminatory taxes on the Internet, as well as to taxes that inhibit Internet access.

- John McCain

source: "States argue for taxing Internet transactions" by Ian Christopher McCaleb, www.cnn.com. March 14, 2001.

topic: Believe, Internet Access, Congress

Do you remember the good ol' days when Congress was only unsafe if you were an intern.

- David Letterman

topic: Remember, Congress, Good Ol Days

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

- Hal Abelson

topic: Two, Congress, Two Things

Congress, the legislative stone in America's urethra.

- Jon Stewart

source: "Jon Stewart Jabs Obama’s Guantanamo Failure", May 2, 2013.

topic: America, Stones, Congress

9/11 references are like Lay's potato chips...no Congress can make just one.

- Jon Stewart

topic: Potato Chips, Potatoes, Congress

Keith Ellison is an organizer's organizer.He's one of the only Muslims in Congress, so you have a big statement there.

- Van Jones

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: Keith, Congress, Bigs

Granting such immunity undermines the constitutional protections Americans trust the Congress to protect.

- Barack Obama

source: "Obama’s Statement On Dodd And Filibuster", shadowproof.com. December 17, 2007.

topic: Nsa, Protection, Congress, Immunity

Do something, Congress. Do anything.

- Barack Obama

source: Twitter post from Jul 12, 2014

topic: Congress

We can't wait for Congress to do its job. So where they won't act, I will.

- Barack Obama

source: "Obama Announces Student Loan Relief Plan". www.foxnews.com. October 26, 2011.

topic: Jobs, Waiting, Congress

We can't change the way Washington works unless we first change how Congress works.

- Barack Obama

topic: Way, Firsts, Congress

I think people are beating each other up in the halls of Congress, as they did in the late 1850s.

- Victor Davis Hanson

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Thinking, People, Congress

Andrew Johnson wasn't too bad, but he was overwhelmed by a hostile Congress.

- Harry S. Truman

source: Harry S. Truman (2015). “Where the Buck Stops: The Personal and Private Writings of Harry S. Truman”, p.21, New Word City

topic: Overwhelmed, Congress, Andrew

No foreign policy will stick unless the American people are behind it. And unless Congress understands it. And unless Congress understands it, the American people aren't going to understand it.

- W. Averell Harriman

topic: People, Sticks, Congress

Could Congress really do its work if it held its sessions by teleconferencing? Could the Supreme Court? Nothing can replace the spark of intelligence that travels from person to person at meetings.

- Ben Stein

topic: Sparks, Congress, Court

Most Americans, who think Congress has a right to do anything for which they can get a majority vote, ignore the clearly written constitutional restraints on Congress.

- Walter E. Williams

topic: Thinking, Majority Vote, Congress

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

- Bernie Sanders

source: Source: www.socialistalternative.org

topic: Wall, Congress, Streets

I know that Congress will do the right thing.

- Warren Buffett

source: "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview With Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

topic: Congress, Knows, Right Thing

It is hard sometimes to get the Congress to do what you want to do and you have to keep working at it.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Transcript of the Second Debate, www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2016.

topic: Want, Sometimes, Congress

Americans want to have what members of Congress have: guaranteed health coverage.

- Hillary Clinton

topic: Want, Congress, Members, Health Coverage

I'm absolutely against privatizing the V.A. And I am going do everything I can to build on the reforms that Senator Sanders and others in Congress have passed to try to fix what's wrong with the V.A.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.

topic: Trying, Reform, Congress

Congress is going to start tinkering with the Ten Commandments just as soon as they find someone in Washington who has read them.

- Will Rogers

topic: Tinkering, Congress, Ten Commandments

It's not fair to say that Congress spends money like a drunk sailor. At least the sailor is spending his own money!

- Ronald Reagan

topic: Drunk, Sailor, Congress, Not Fair

The US is safest when Congress is in recess.

- Will Rogers

topic: Congress, Recess

That's what a Congressman or a Senator is for -- to see that too much money don't accumulate in the national Treasury.

- Will Rogers

source: Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.56, Rowman & Littlefield

topic: Government, Too Much, Congress, Treasury

We have the best Congress that money can buy.

- Will Rogers

topic: Congress

Labor Day, I suppose set by an Act of Congress. Everything we do nowadays is either by, or against, Acts of Congress. How Congress knew anything about Labor is beyond us.

- Will Rogers

source: Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.168, Rowman & Littlefield

topic: Labor Day, Constitution, Congress

When I make a joke, nobody gets injured... when Congress makes a joke, it's the law.

- Will Rogers

topic: Law, Congress, Injured

We've had a Congress that's spent money like John Edwards at a beauty shop.

- Mike Huckabee

source: Mike Huckabee (2008). “Do the Right Thing: Inside the Movement That's Bringing Common Sense Back to America”, p.52, Penguin

topic: Congress, Beauty Shop, Shops

Congress is deadlocked and can’t act.

- Will Rogers

source: Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

topic: Congress

We all joke about Congress but we can't improve on them. Have you noticed that no matter who we elect, he is just as bad as the one he replaces?

- Will Rogers

topic: Politics, Matter, Congress

Hurray! Congress is to adjourn! Only four more days of Congressional burglary on the Treasury!

- Will Rogers

source: Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.66, Rowman & Littlefield

topic: Government, Four, Congress, Burglary, Treasury

Congress constitutionally lacks general police powers.

- Mike Lee

topic: Police, Congress, Police Power

Our founding fathers never intended that Congress be a career.

- Rush Limbaugh

topic: Father, Careers, Congress

The Constitution says Congress has complete control over who is and who is not a US citizen.

- Rush Limbaugh

topic: Citizens, Constitution, Congress

JFK [John F. Kennedy] was young, glamorous, Camelot, funny, engaging. Congress loved him.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Congress, Camelot, Young

Hillary's explanation of the Libyan action to Congress was so good, I wonder who explained it to her?

- Mort Sahl

source: Twitter post from Apr 03, 2011

topic: Action, Wonder, Congress

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

- Nancy Pelosi

topic: United States, Accusing, Congress

We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.

- Nancy Pelosi

source: "Speaker Nancy Pelosi Speaks to ABC's Diane Sawyer". Interview with Diane Sawyer, abcnews.go.com. November 3, 2010.

topic: Loss, Congress, Distinction, Seniority