Congress Quotes

• When the ACLU took my case and we got a ruling I think, for the first time, they could - the Congress could put out the report internally but they couldn't put it out at taxpayers' expense around the country. And I felt odd about that because I, in a way, I was interfering with free speech, but then, you can't always win.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Win
  • Report
  • Taxpayers

• The salary of a member of Congress ends the day that he of she leaves office.

  

  Virgil Goode
  • Ends
  • Office
  • Congress

• I could say, as a member of Congress, we usually get an alert if something is going to happen at the Capitol.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Happens
  • Congress
  • Members

• Keith Ellison is an organizer's organizer.He's one of the only Muslims in Congress, so you have a big statement there.

  

  Van Jones
  • Bigs
  • Congress
  • Keith

• Congress will not use Social Security as a pot of gold to fund foreign aid.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Gold
  • Aid
  • Social Security

• Between the Community Redevelopment Act, requiring banks to make what I would call very weak loans, and specific quotas that the Congress imposed on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, that created the market demand that really led to the subprime phenomenon.

  

  Wilbur Ross
  • Community
  • Created
  • Demand

• We know of no more crucial civil rights issue facing Congress today than the need to increase the federal minimum wage and extend its coverage.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Wage
  • Civil
  • Coverage

• Today the path of total dictatorship in the United States can be laid by strictly legal means, unseen and unheard by the Congress, the President, or the people. Outwardly we have a Constitutional government. We have operating within our government and political system, another body representing another form of government - a bureaucratic elite.

  

  William E. Jenner
  • People
  • Government
  • Body

• What we would like to do, ... is go through Congress or the Government Accountability Office and make them set forth some kinds of benchmarks so this isn't open to the Army just writing a perfunctory letter saying we meet all the conditions.

  

  Frank Pallone
  • Government
  • Congress
  • Forth

• The Trans-Pacific Partnership If corporations liked NAFTA, they will love TPP—and American workers hate the prospect of it. As some Democratic members of Congress succinctly put it, TPP is “NAFTA on steroids.”

  

  Bill Press
  • Partnership
  • Prospect
  • NAFTA

• Soberly and with the dignity that befits the United States Congress.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • United States
  • Congress
  • Dignity

• Librarian of Congress: It's a librarian's dream.

  

  Carla Hayden
  • Dream
  • Congress
  • Librarian

• Trade votes in the US Congress are never really easy things.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Congress
  • Trade

• I meet with ambassadors from all countries in my role as a member of Congress, and you always have better relationships with those you actually personally get along with. That matters. So if there is chemistry between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, maybe that can bode for something.

  

  Adam Kinzinger
  • Role
  • Congress
  • Member

• In the days of Joseph Smith it was considered a great privilege to be permitted to speak to a member of Congress, but twenty-six years will not pass away before the Elders of this Church will be as much thought of as the kings on their thrones.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Church
  • Thrones
  • Joseph Smith

• The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engages in gestures of superficial equality.

  

  William Rehnquist
  • Constitution
  • Congress
  • Superficial

• For years, the Blue Dogs have stressed the need for a rainy day fund in the event of disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and 9/11, ... Unfortunately, this concept, which is adopted by most families and businesses, has eluded many members of Congress and the current administration.

  

  Allen Boyd
  • Blue
  • 9/11
  • Hurricane Katrina

• Over the last several days, we have heard from members of Congress who want their voices to be heard. I absolutely agree.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Members
  • Agree
  • Absolutely

• For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain from.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Differences
  • Congress

• Once again, the puppets on Capitol Hill are about to slam the Muppets on Main Street. The country still hasn't recovered from the Wall Street-induced financial cataclysm of 2008, yet Congress is preparing to enact the Orwellian 'JOBS Act' - a bill that should in fact be called the 'Return Fraud to Wall Street in One Easy Step Act.'

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Country
  • Wall
  • Financial

• The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Means
  • Congress
  • Fights

• There is too much blind partisanship in Congress, which has blocked progress on critical issues. Too many members view compromise as weakness rather than the essence of our democracy. This has to end.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • Democracy
  • Issues
  • Partisanship

• Congress has always been for the people and by the people. And in keeping with the great traditions of our country, we need to keep it that way.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • People
  • Great
  • Country

• I would hope that the president would come forward on a timely basis and do two things: Lay this out to the Congress and the American people, and also come forward with a plan for how we're going to pay for it.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • People
  • American
  • Hope

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