Congress Quotes
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While we face economic obstacles that challenge every decision made in Washington, decisions made merely for political gain must stop. It's time to restore civility in Congress. It's time for action where action is needed - all politics aside.
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Our representative democracy is not working because the Congress that is supposed to represent the voters does not respond to their needs. I believe the chief reason for this is that it is ruled by a small group of old men.
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The fights I fought... cost a lot --the fight for the assault-weapons ban cost 20 members their seats in Congress. The NRA is the reason the Republicans control the House.
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Congress has always had a soft spot for "experts" who tell members what they want to hear, whether it's supply-side economists declaring that tax cuts increase revenue or climate-change skeptics insisting that global warming is a myth.
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Republicans won big, running as Republicans, in 2004. But once they took control of Congress, they started acting like Democrats and lost big. There is a lesson in that somewhere but whether Republicans will learn it is another story entirely.
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When I started my campaign for Congress, I was one who people said, 'Tulsi, you have a bright future, but there's no way you can win.
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Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores. They're damn boring. They have no imagination, and they don't know how to imagine the future.
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One of the best ways to stop the failed policies coming out of Congress is to bring in the ideas and the involvement of the American people, which the America Speaking Out project is designed to do.
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Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and move off into the wilderness, let Congress jargon as it will,can such a form of so-called Government continue for any length of time to torment men with the semblance, when the indispensable substance is not there.
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Congress would give the people what they wanted if the people knew what they wanted, and if Congress could give it to them.
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I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress.
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Challenges of historic import threaten America's future. Action on the deficit, economy, energy, health care and much more is imperative, yet our legislative institutions fail to act. Congress must be reformed.
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Congress increasingly represents the diversity of America.
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In Congress the majority governs, but the minority rules.
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The Congress is a power-oriented party.
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It is hard sometimes to get the Congress to do what you want to do and you have to keep working at it.
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I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us.
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I didn't leave the Congress; I was expelled.
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A Bush Administration will, I believe, enjoy a better relationship with the new Congress, although President-elect Bush will be faced with real challenges in getting along with the Congress.
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If I am elected to Congress, I plan to introduce legislation tying Congressional pay to performance.
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Making Congress into a less crisis-driven institution starts with electing members of Congress who can take the long view.
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I told the Congress, 'Thanks, but no thanks,' on that Bridge to Nowhere.
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I believe that if the people of this nation fully understood what Congress has done to them over the last 49 years, they would move on Washington; they would not wait for an election....It adds up to a preconceived plan to destroy the economic and social independence of the United States!
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People ought to be going over this, finding things they don't like. Congress has clearly proved they can act in a hurry. If there's something wrong with it, it can be amended. If something needs to be kicked in, it can be put in. If something needs to be taken out, it can be taken out.
