Quotes and Sayings About Congress

Congress can't take the year off, election or no election.
-- Kay Bailey Hutchison

#Years #Election #Congress

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

#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

#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

#Long #Congress #Copyright

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

#President #Congress

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

#Fighting #Thinking #Congress

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

#Ideas #Competition #Congress

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

#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

#Today #Excess #Congress

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

#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

#Faithful #Firsts #Congress

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

#Pay #Fractions #Congress

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

#Home #Congress #Ideological

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

#Opportunity #Remember #Congress

The Congress is pretty powerful if it wants to be.
-- Newt Gingrich

#Powerful #Want #Congress

Nothing but widespread suffering will produce any effect on Congress
-- Nicholas Biddle

#Political #Suffering #Congress

Congress is not a party which fades when not in power
-- P. Chidambaram

#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

#Government #Alcohol #Congress

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

#Arms #Congress #Given

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

#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

#Borders #Needs #Congress

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

#Needs #Runaway #Congress

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

#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

#Country #Doe #Congress

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

#Congress #Consumers

Congress: Bingo with billions.
-- Red Skelton

#Bingo #Congress #Billions

I represent more Native Americans than anyone else in Congress.
-- Rick Renzi

#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

#Approval #Wonder #Congress

Congress is not an ATM.
-- Robert Byrd

#Atm #Congress

Congress is best viewed from a distance—the farther the better—because up close, it is truly ugly,
-- Robert M. Gates

#Distance #Ugly #Congress