Quotes and Sayings About Congress
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Perhaps our Congress will be Exalted on a high Gallows.
-- Abraham Clark -
And always remember, Abraham Lincoln only served one term in Congress, too.
-- Allen WestSource : "What Rep. Allen West And Obama Have In Common". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. December 7, 2012.
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Congress is furious at the Secret Service for consorting with hookers, which has traditionally been Congress's role.
-- Andy BorowitzSource : FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Apr 18, 2012
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In Congress, I was a relentless advocate for fiscal responsibility.
-- Ann Kirkpatrick -
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 -
It is not true that Congress spends money like a drunken sailor. Drunken sailors spend their own money. Congress spends our money.
-- Arthur Laffer -
I could say, as a member of Congress, we usually get an alert if something is going to happen at the Capitol.
-- Barack Obama -
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Serving in Congress is like having a second shot at high school.
-- Barney Frank -
You can't repeal human nature by an Act of Congress.
-- Bernard Baruch -
The Senate being tied is a start. Now, if only it could be gagged.
-- Bob Thaves -
Members of Congress must live according to the same laws as everyone else.
-- Bobby Jindal -
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When I ran for Congress I promised to help make health care affordable again.
-- Bobby Jindal -
I am the first podiatrist to serve in the U.S. Congress.
-- Brad Wenstrup -
Your brother doesn't have to be speaker for your voice to be heard in Congress
-- Candace Gingrich-Jones -
From early on, everything I did was calculated to being elected to Congress.
-- Carl Albert -
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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 -
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. VestSource : "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.
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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 SumnerSource : 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
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Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.
-- Charley Reese -
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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 -
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 -
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 -
We should go forward in courts and Congress with investigations into post-9/11 interrogations and the decisions leading to them.
-- Christine Pelosi -
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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 -
I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.
-- Crystal EastmanSource : Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution”, Oxford University Press, USA
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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 -
I have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency.
-- Dan Quayle -
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I came to Congress to help reduce spending.
-- Dave Reichert -
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 LimbaughSource : David Limbaugh (2015). “David Limbaugh: The Conservative Word”, p.178, Creators Publishing