Congress Quotes

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

Congress is not an ATM.

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.

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

Congress has no power to make any religious establishments.

Congress: Bingo with billions.

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.

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.

Congress is responsible for every major change in India

Congress never loses its capacity to disappoint you.

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

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.

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

Some members of Congress are among the best actors in the world.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

That's what mayors do. They lobby Congress to provide resources for their city.

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

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

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

Our founding fathers never intended that Congress be a career.

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

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.

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

I am Congress; I'm president.

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?

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.

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.

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.

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