Congress Quotes

• Dear Mr. President: ... We urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraq sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • Air
  • President
  • Constitution

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

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Congress
  • Southern
  • Six

• I said what I said before Congress because I meant every word of it.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Said
  • Word
  • Congress

• Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Law
  • Thanks
  • Congress

• I have one desire: That is to have a principle-based, member-driven Congress. Period. That's what I want.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Want
  • Desire
  • Period

• With scientific advances, Congress must now make changes to reflect new therapeutic options.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • New
  • Changes
  • 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

• Intelligence is playing a more important role in policymaker decisions than I think I've ever seen in my time in Congress or before.

  

  Mike Rogers
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Decision

• It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Long
  • Myself
  • Thought

• I don't spend a lot of time thinking about the ratings of Congress. I really don't.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Congress

• We have some Jewish members of Congress, not a lot but there's a bunch of us.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • Congress
  • Jewish
  • Some

• 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...

  

  Rick Perry
  • Hell
  • Deals
  • Terror

• While nobody was opening their mouths in other parties, mouths were wide open in the Congress

  

  P. V. Narasimha Rao
  • Congress
  • Open
  • Mouths

• You can see how dysfunctional this Congress is.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • You
  • Congress
  • How

• 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.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • People
  • American
  • Role

• 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.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • War
  • Failure
  • Serving In Vietnam

• 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?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Sense
  • Propriety

• I received orders from Congress to proceed to Charleston in South Carolina, for the purpose of Co'operating with General Lincoln in the defense of that Capitol.

  

  Abraham Whipple
  • Purpose
  • Congress
  • Defense

• Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Mistake
  • Decisions
  • Congress

• 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

• 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.

  

  Eleanor Smeal
  • Women
  • Hope
  • Rule

• 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.

  

  Elena Kagan
  • Money
  • Done
  • May

• This is the first step in determining whether and how Congress can provide a solution.

  

  Ed Whitfield
  • Congress
  • Solution
  • First Step

• 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.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Time
  • Support
  • Wish

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