Congress Quotes
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I never dread going back to Congress.
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
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With scientific advances, Congress must now make changes to reflect new therapeutic options.
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I have one desire: That is to have a principle-based, member-driven Congress. Period. That's what I want.
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Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.
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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.
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While nobody was opening their mouths in other parties, mouths were wide open in the Congress
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I would a whole lot rather had Carly Fiorina over there doing our negotiation than John Kerry. Maybe we would've gotten a deal where we didn't give everything away. But the issue for us is to have a Congress that stands up and says not only no, but "Hell no" to this money going to a Iran regime that is going to use it for terror...
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It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.
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We have some Jewish members of Congress, not a lot but there's a bunch of us.
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I would think we have a trajectory of failure on the Republicans' part. When you think about how they managed to make John Kerry look bad during the last election for actually serving in Vietnam, and testifying in Congress after he'd gotten medals, and said that he didn't believe in them or that he didn't believe in the war and that it should stop . . . That they could turn that in negative when their guy, George W. Bush, never even went to Vietnam.
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In the meantime, that case has to be made to the American people as well, and it will be part of the Congress' role to do that as well.
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In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he [the president] is the representative of the people. He is elected by them, as well as congress is. But can he, in the nature [of] things, know the wants of the people, as well as three hundred other men, coming from all the various localities of the nation? If so, where is the propriety of having a congress?
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I was elected six times to represent southern Arizona, in the State Legislature and then in Congress.
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You can see how dysfunctional this Congress is.
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Intelligence is playing a more important role in policymaker decisions than I think I've ever seen in my time in Congress or before.
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This is the first step in determining whether and how Congress can provide a solution.
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The gag rule must be eliminated, and it's just the gag rule, we're not talking now even about funding abortion. We're talking about, you know, counseling and speaking, so that's one. That can be reversed by an executive order. [George W.]Bush put it in the first day he got in office. We hope that [Barack] Obama takes it out. He had cut off funding for the United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, even though Congress had appropriated. It is injured women who are the poorest of the poor.
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Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress.
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Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.
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I wish that I'd been in Congress at some point. Especially now with Bush there. But I would have a really hard time getting elected because of my views. L.A. is very ethnic. Many of the Jewish voters would not support me because of my views on the Middle East.
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Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.
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In fact, corporate and union moneys go overwhelmingly to incumbents, so limiting that money, as Congress did in the campaign finance law, may be the single most self-denying thing that Congress has ever done.
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Well it's unusual for us to do an endorsement, you know, and the special occasions where you need appointments, but we thought that Senator [Hillary ]Clinton had occupied such a neat and unique role, certainly a worldwide advocate for women, and also there's also only 16 women without her in Congress.
