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Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session.
Mark Twain
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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
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I think that Congress's ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary.
Samuel Alito
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Congress has no power to make any religious establishments.
Roger Sherman
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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 Sumner
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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
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Congress is responsible for every major change in India
Sonia Gandhi
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Congress never loses its capacity to disappoint you.
John Oliver
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Obviously, overall infrastructure needs on the Southwest and Northern borders are mounting. We need a major push in Congress to remedy this.
Pete Domenici
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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
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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
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Some members of Congress are among the best actors in the world.
Shirley Chisholm
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Congress should pass legislation to remove from the federal courts their jurisdiction to hear these outrageous challenges to the Ten Commandments and the Pledge of Allegiance.
Phyllis Schlafly
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If bribery is good enough for Congress, it's good enough for me.
Eddie Griffin
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It's disgraceful that year after year, Congress has bowed to the tobacco lobby and refused to act.
Edward Kennedy
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It is not true that Congress spends money like a drunken sailor. Drunken sailors spend their own money. Congress spends our money.
Arthur Laffer
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If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
Jack Kemp
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As Negro voting increased, Congress got an improved sense of hearing.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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When I ran for Congress I promised to help make health care affordable again.
Bobby Jindal
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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
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Hillary's explanation of the Libyan action to Congress was so good, I wonder who explained it to her?
Mort Sahl
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I could be an idiot, or I can serve in Congress, but I repeat myself.
Mark Twain
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That's what mayors do. They lobby Congress to provide resources for their city.
Maxine Waters
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I probably hold more town halls than any member of Congress.
Joe Walsh
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Our runaway judiciary is badly in need of restraint by Congress.
Phyllis Schlafly
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Our founding fathers never intended that Congress be a career.
Rush Limbaugh
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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
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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
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And always remember, Abraham Lincoln only served one term in Congress, too.
Allen West
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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
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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
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Every member Congress is under the threat of being destroyed by the Israeli lobby.
David Duke
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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
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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
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The member of Congress who forgets his constituents' needs usually serves only one term.
Edward Brooke
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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
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I didn't leave the Congress; I was expelled.
Sharad Pawar
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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
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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
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From early on, everything I did was calculated to being elected to Congress.
Carl Albert
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Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.
Mark Twain
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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
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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
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Congress in session is Congress on public exhibition, whilst Congress in its committee-rooms is Congress at work.
Woodrow Wilson
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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