Congress Quotes · Page 47

To be effective in Congress, you must focus. With so many issues and debates occurring at any given time, it is easy…

— Jared Polis

We have to be cultured in our criticism of a tall leader like our Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

— Tamilisai Soundararajan

Once Congress establishes that one person can live at the expense of another, it pays for everyone to try to do so.

— Walter E. Williams

Modi created the impression that he was ready to go to war with Pakistan after the Pulwama attack. But his government was…

— Raj Thackeray

Members of Congress should be compelled to wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers, so we could identify their corporate sponsors.

— Caroline Baum

Clean air is a basic right. The responsibility to ensure that falls to Congress and the president.

— Thomas Carper

Yes, I do agree we need health care reform; however, this bill badly misses the mark. Congress can and must do better…

— John Mica

The coming decade belongs to the right of the poor and the marginalised. The BJP is very clear on that.

— Narendra Modi

If a hurricane strikes, we can blame the president for not being there; we can blame Congress and FEMA; we can blame…

— Michael Bloomberg

I've ordered plans to begin for the massive rebuilding of the United States military. Had great support from the Senate. I've had…

— Donald Trump

After I was elected as an MP, there were many who used to criticize me, but I still stood. This I have…

— Kirron Kher

We've got a tax code that is encouraging flight of jobs and outsourcing. And that's why we've specifically recommended ... that Congress…

— Barack Obama

“If developed and implemented meaningfully, Cyber Shield Act could be a catalyst to incite responsible cybersecurity adoption and implementation throughout multiple manufacturing…

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

I shall work with Congress, civil society groups and local government executives who are convinced that charter changes are needed to enable…

— Anonymous

President Bush and I had asked Congress to appropriate a half-billion dollars to school vouchers. We didn't get it, and we were…

— Lamar Alexander

This In Friendship - out of it came certain connections with the liberal labor establishment. Among the personalities that were involved were…

— Ella Baker

Granting such immunity undermines the constitutional protections Americans trust the Congress to protect.

— Barack Obama

“It’s a pity that the land of great leaders like Chandragupta Maurya, Ashoka and Akbar, has to be led by a dummy…

— Tuhin A. Sinha

In the liberal imagination, the money is the government's by default, and the president and Congress determine through the tax code how…

— Matthew Continetti

Congress consists of one-third, more or less, scoundrels; two-thirds, more or less, idiots; and three-thirds, more or less, poltroons.

— H. L. Mencken

The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what people people are calling therapeutic…

— David Baltimore

I am calling Shaktikanta Das as a corrupt person. I am surprised that the man I got removed from the Finance Ministry…

— Subramanian Swamy

One battle would do more towards a Declaration of Independence than a long chain of conclusive arguments in a provincial convention or…

— Samuel Adams

Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?

— Robert Byrd

I came to Congress to break through the partisan gridlock and get things done for the - not only my district, but…

— Young Kim

The only reason the House hasn't done even more damage is that the Senate often sands down the most noxious ideas, making…

— Jonathan Alter

Country is run by... financial powers & corporate interests [who] send their lawyers to Congress to make laws so that they don't…

— Gore Vidal

The Rafale deal narrative that the Congress is setting is a propaganda that has international ramifications.

— Nirmala Sitharaman

There are loopholes big enough to drive trucks through. And Congress needs to take a look at those laws and make sure…

— Marion Nestle

When I was elected to Congress, I made a commitment to my constituents that my office would set the standard to be…

— Elise Stefanik

“on the other hand, who would be a more dedicated gay-basher than a gay school board member? look at congress.”

— John L'Heureux

If they're willing to stand at polls for countless hours in the rain, as many did, then I should surely stand up…

— Stephanie Tubbs Jones

The Constitution is very clear: Congress has sole discretion over defining who is and who isn't a citizen and how you become…

— Rush Limbaugh

Congress needs to step up. Congress needs to do their job, and Congress needs to do their job now.

— Mike Pence

I simply want to do what I can to have the best Congress possible representing the American people.

— Jim Moran

This session of Congress is also to relieve the farmer again, relieve him of any encouragement that he might have received during…

— Will Rogers

Simply, with a Republican Congress sitting shotgun, Mitt Romney will put the middle class on the roof and take us for a…

— Patty Murray

This rumour that the BJP is behind me has been going on for a while, but the truth is the only person…

— Rajinikanth

About the only time Congress conforms to the will of the people is when it decides to adjourn.

— Evan Esar

Congress realized that it was inherently unfair to penalize Americans by requiring them to pay taxes on taxes they had already paid.

— Tom Suozzi