Richard Neal Quotes

The tax relief that this Congress has given now in terms of four tax cuts has overwhelmingly gone to the people at the very top of the income scale in America.

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• I never dread going back to Congress.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Back
  • Going
  • Congress

• I was elected six times to represent southern Arizona, in the State Legislature and then in Congress.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Congress
  • Southern
  • Six

• As I prepare for my second term as Secretary-General, I am thinking hard about how we can meet the expectations of the millions of people who see the U.N.'s blue flag as a banner of hope. We have to continue our life-saving work in peacekeeping, human rights, development and humanitarian relief.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Development
  • Expectations
  • Rights

• The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • War
  • Control
  • Authority

• Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Me
  • Care
  • Congress

• In my 31 years in Congress, I have seen a lot of changes. We made some substantial policy changes that have improved our parks system and our public lands.

  

  Ralph Regula
  • Years
  • Changes
  • Congress

• Ever since I've been in Congress, various groups on the business side, those entities that are creating jobs out there, have felt that the Clean Air Act is really - that there are all sorts of presumptions in favor of the environmentalists.

  

  Ed Whitfield
  • Business
  • Air
  • Creating

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

  

  Samuel Alito
  • Think
  • Congress
  • Equal

• Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Friends
  • Grateful
  • Congress

• God wants your life. Not one hour a week, not 10% of your income, He wants you.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Life
  • God
  • Week

• There is no question that the conditions we are seeing at the New Orleans convention center are deplorable. This is one of the worst disasters our nation has ever faced and the challenges to getting people out of harm's way are immeasurable. Some relief efforts, such as those at the convention center, are not moving as quickly or as smoothly as we would like.

  

  Hal Rogers
  • People
  • Question
  • Moving

• I believe the Congress - as a coequal branch of government - must immediately and expeditiously review the use of this practice.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Believe
  • Government
  • Practice

• We must be careful that the people who make $5,000 a year are not pitted against those that make $25,000 a year by those who make $900,000.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • People
  • Difference
  • Income

• Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • Great
  • War

• Any discuss about taxes ends up being, are you raising them or lowering them, as the opposed to the question I ask - are we raising them for high income individuals that can afford it, and lowering them for lower income people who really need help. Those old categories don't work, and they're preventing us from solving them problems.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Congress is a middle-aged, middle-class, white male power structure ... no wonder it's been so totally unresponsive to the needs of this country.

  

  Bella Abzug
  • Country
  • Power
  • Wonder

• New York was a relief - not all hierarchical and rule-bound.

  

  Ayumi Hamasaki
  • New York
  • Relief
  • Rule-bound

• There will be a debate on Firing Line between Buckley and Gore Vidal on the proposition: "This nation cannot survive as long as the income of 50 percent of the population is below the median." Mr. Vidal will take the affirmative.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Long
  • Population
  • Income

• Congress has all sorts of rules, hedge fund managers, private equity managers, executives, movie stars, fall into that allow them to escape or defer into the future not paying their taxes. And if you can defer your tax into the future, it's the best deal in the world, because you don't just get to eat your cake and have it too. You get to eat your cake and have a bigger cake.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Future
  • Rules
  • Congress

• Oddly enough you'd think, now that I wasn't training professionally, I'd be able to enjoy a lie-in at the weekend, but I actually slept more when I was competing because I was so tired.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Training
  • Enjoy
  • Tired

• They were saying you would be a tremendous addition to the military, and we can get you into West Point with a full scholarship. And I simply said, I want to be a doctor. I really appreciate it.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Military
  • Scholarship
  • Addition

• If you are bitter, it will eat you up and do you much more damage than the people who have hurt you

  

  Terence Hardy
  • Hurt
  • Bitter
  • Damage

• The tax relief that this Congress has given now in terms of four tax cuts has overwhelmingly gone to the people at the very top of the income scale in America.

  

  Richard Neal
  • Congress
  • Income
  • Relief