Congress Quotes
After 20 years in Congress, I still believe that smaller government and lower taxes are the most effective economic policies.
~Howard Coble
~Howard Coble
An honest day's work, deserves and honest day's pay, and this Congress must make one of its final actions before we adjourn, raising the minimum wage.
~Jim Clyburn
~Jim Clyburn
Apparently tired of waiting for clear direction from Congress, the people of Puerto Rico have used the tools provided by their own local constitution to schedule a vote for Dec. 13 on the status of the island.
~Dick Thornburgh
~Dick Thornburgh
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.
~Xavier Becerra
~Xavier Becerra
Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms.
~Bill Frist
~Bill Frist
Each year thousands of embryos, no bigger than the head of a pin, are created in the process of in vitro fertilization, with the support of Congress, by the way.
~Lois Capps
~Lois Capps
Ever since I came to Congress in 1992, there are those who have been trying to silence my voice. I've been told to "sit down and shut up" over and over again. Well, I won't sit down and I won't shut up until the full and unvarnished truth is placed before the American people.
~Cynthia McKinney
~Cynthia McKinney
Everybody on this floor wants to send the same loud and clear message: that Congress is united in its opposition to terror and we are all deeply concerned about the future and security of our close friend and ally, Israel.
~Earl Blumenauer
~Earl Blumenauer
Health care for all Americans is the most pressing domestic issue today. It's far past time for the President and Congress to deliver health care to everyone.
~Russ Feingold
~Russ Feingold
I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
~Victor Hugo
~Victor Hugo
I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.
~Birch Bayh
~Birch Bayh
I think if you look at yesterday's New York Times poll, particularly when you judge Democrats in Congress versus the Republicans in Congress, people put a little more faith, or even a little more than a little more faith in the Democrats in Congress.
~John Podesta
~John Podesta
If a trip is worth taking, members of Congress should be prepared to justify paying for it out of their office accounts.
~Russ Feingold
~Russ Feingold
If Congress does its job in this regard, the residents of Puerto Rico will be empowered to act in their own self-interest and express their future political status aspirations accordingly.
~Dick Thornburgh
~Dick Thornburgh
If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
~Thomas Jefferson
~Thomas Jefferson
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.
~Stephanie Tubbs Jones
~Stephanie Tubbs Jones
If we are wondering why only 19 percent of the American people feel that the Congress is in tune with their priorities, the cuts in Amtrak is one blatant reason why.
~Corrine Brown
~Corrine Brown
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
~John Adams
~John Adams
Internal self-government under a local constitution was authorized by Congress and approved by the residents in 1952, but federal law is supreme in Puerto Rico and residents do not have voting representation in the Congress.
~Dick Thornburgh
~Dick Thornburgh
It is not secret here in Congress we have not had the discipline in many instances to keep our hands out of the cookie jar of Social Security. Now to stop this I propose that in the future that Congress cannot get its hands on the money in the first place.
~Jeff Miller
~Jeff Miller
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.
~Allen Boyd
~Allen Boyd
Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment... Congress made this position clear upon passage of the Flag Protection Act of 1989, which prohibited desecration of the flag.
~Larry Craig
~Larry Craig
Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There's something wrong with that.
~Donna Brazile
~Donna Brazile
No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages.
~Judy Biggert
~Judy Biggert
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.
~Christopher Gadsden
~Christopher Gadsden
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
~Lichty and Wagner
~Lichty and Wagner
Reducing health costs and increasing access to health care are worthy goals that every Member of Congress should support.
~Jim McCrery
~Jim McCrery
Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work.
~Zach Wamp
~Zach Wamp
Sadly, I fear the Bush Administration and Congress are not doing enough to protect our own transportation systems here in the United States.
~Corrine Brown
~Corrine Brown
The Chinese leadership hoped that the world would soon forget the Tiananmen Square massacre. Our job in Congress is to ensure that we never forget those who lost their lives in Tiananmen Square that day or the pro-democracy cause for which they fought.
~Tom Lantos
~Tom Lantos
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.
~Arundhati Roy
~Arundhati Roy
The need for a permanent status resolution approved by Congress is made even more clear to me because of my experience as a former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.
~Dick Thornburgh
~Dick Thornburgh
The political status legislation which emerged in Congress in 1990 and 1991 did not receive the support needed for enactment into law during my tenure as Attorney General.
~Dick Thornburgh
~Dick Thornburgh
There have been high crimes and misdemeanors, but they have been committed by the special prosecutor and the Congress, not the president.
~Donella Meadows
~Donella Meadows
They all agree, they are all unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the rostrum, in the sanctuary - everywhere they declare that slavery shall not go into the Territories.
~Robert Toombs
~Robert Toombs
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
~Will Rogers
~Will Rogers
Washington, D.C., has a much greater risk than Manchester, N.H. They both need some level of funding, but they ought not to be done per capita. Congress is to blame for some of this.
~Warren Rudman
~Warren Rudman
We in Congress need to support the American forces in every conceivable way, giving them the tools to continue to convert, capture or kill terrorists and the time to equip the Iraqi security forces.
~Bob Inglis
~Bob Inglis
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
~Cullen Hightower
~Cullen Hightower
We stand with the people of Taiwan and their democratic ways, and I am proud to be a part of reaffirming the unwavering commitment to the Taiwan Relations Act by the United States Congress.
~Eliot Engel
~Eliot Engel
Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
~Warren Rudman
~Warren Rudman
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
~Stephanie Herseth
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