Congress Quotes · Page 2

I came to Congress to help reduce spending.

— Dave Reichert

I am Congress; I'm president.

— Waka Flocka Flame

The US is safest when Congress is in recess.

— Will Rogers

In Congress, it's all pork, all the time.

— Jim Cooper

My mother once used to be a Congress leader.

— Govinda

Congress should get the job done.

— Anonymous

Freedom is always wise.

— Alexander Meiklejohn

“The new dumb, is now wisdom.”

— Anthony Liccione

The country needs a leader like Modi. He should come to the national level politics.

— Paresh Rawal

It's not the function of Congress to do criminal investigations.

— Saxby Chambliss

Our job in Congress is to follow the facts of any investigation wherever they lead.

— Conor Lamb

I cannot see Modiji as separate from BJP. Both are the same.

— Amit Shah

The Congress party is insignificant in our state.

— Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy

Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one.

— James Madison

Congress is a culture and I would love to be part of it.

— Bappi Lahiri

Judge [Samuel Alito], there's a genuine struggle going on well beyond you, well beyond the Congress, in America about how to read…

— Joe Biden

ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and…

— Jack Keane

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

— Wendell Phillips

It is safe to say that the U.S. Congress is now run by paid staffers, not by people elected to do the…

— Barry Goldwater

The IRS has become morally corrupted by the enormous power which we in Congress have unwisely entrusted to it. Too often it…

— Edward V. Long

My younger self could not imagine standing on the floor of Congress as a member of Congress voting on legislation that, if…

— Ritchie Torres

It was the Congress that imposed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of…

— Colin Powell

I'm very proud to be a member of the Congress. And I'm proud to serve with people like Mike Doyle.

— Joe Barton

Elect us, hold us accountable, and make a judgment and then go from there. But I do tell you that if the…

— Nancy Pelosi

I don't understand why every single person in Congress isn't standing up and going, "He [Donald Trump] is in bed with Russia."…

— Jen Kirkman

Bureaucracy has murdered people in the greater New Orleans area and bureaucracy needs to stand trial before Congress today. So I'm asking…

— Aaron Broussard

I used to tell people all the time that I left the Texas state House - which definitely had its own issues…

— Jasmine Crockett

We in this Congress have a choice. The American people have a right to exercise a choice on this issue, as to…

— Raul Grijalva

Let's come together and form our own party, and give the other parties hell - and then vette who we want, and…

— Louis Farrakhan

The longer we go without strong leadership from the Administration and until we see significant progress in the day-to-day lives of the…

— Dennis Cardoza

As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept…

— George Washington

“The first revolution is to transform the status of evaluation from untouchable to respectable , i.e., from the days a century ago…

— Michael Scriven

Unfortunately there are too many examples of members of Congress and other elected officials using language, referring to your opponents in ways…

— Jeff Flake

How did Madison get separation through Virginia and later Congress? The Baptists, the Presbyterians, and the smaller sects hated Jefferson; to them…

— John Rawls

I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that 'while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract…

— Abraham Lincoln

I fully support President Bush's decision to strike Al Qaeda's terrorist network. Now more than ever, we must stand united as a…

— Tom Harkin

The other General Welfare Clause is in the first of the authorities given to the Congress and it's not a grant, it's…

— Andrew Napolitano

The great successes of the modern environmental movement in the '60s and '70s had laid the seeds of their failure in the…

— Ted Nordhaus

One third of the $15 trillion of mortgages in existence in 2008 are owned, or securitized by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Ginnie…

— Walter E. Williams