Congress Quotes · Page 13

To say Congress is spending like drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors.

— Ronald Reagan

Congress doesn't regulate Wall Street. Wall Street regulates Congress.

— Bernie Sanders

If it comes out of Congress, I think it has traction in America.

— Jeff Fortenberry

With or without this Congress, I will keep taking actions that help the economy grow.

— Barack Obama

When I make a joke, nobody gets injured... when Congress makes a joke, it's the law.

— Will Rogers

I've seen Congress do some remarkable things within a short period of time.

— Anthony Foxx

[Congress] can just make [Mitt] Romney president. And we'd be like, "All right, fine."

— Jen Kirkman

We can't wait for Congress to do its job. So where they won't act, I will.

— Barack Obama

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

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

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

— John L'Heureux

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

You put the republican members of congress who are up for re-election, and quite candidly, the democrats, because every democratic congressperson ought…

— Joe Madison

And I am saying, how about the other two branches? And putting the pressure on our representatives in the Senate and the…

— Sibel Edmonds

When I first came to Congress, the party was supposed to help you. Now, when a new member is sworn in, he…

— Jim Cooper

During my time as a state legislator, I've pushed for significant investment in public school districts. In Congress, I would look forward…

— Hakeem Jeffries

Favoritism' is always a factor, and pressure always build for the appointment of friends of influential supporters of the President, or for…

— Richard V. Allen

I not going to focus on what I have done in the past what I stand for, what I articulate to the…

— Dan Quayle

I just thought it was unconscionable for the Congress to insert itself into this debate. We are particularly unqualified to make that…

— Gary Ackerman

We waited for Congress to act. They couldn't act on the issue. So I just went ahead and signed an executive order…

— George W. Bush

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) the…

— Leo Ryan

The 16th Amendment corroded the American concept of natural rights; ultimately reduced the American citizen to a status of subject, so much…

— Frank Chodorov

Here I close my opinion. I could not say less in view of questions of such gravity that go down to the…

— Stephen Johnson Field

Everybody complains about pork, but members of Congress keep spending because voters do not throw them out of office for doing so.…

— Ron Paul

“If Cleveland had only used the bully pulpit to harangue congressional leaders and rammed his “agenda” through the halls of Congress, he…

— Brion T. McClanahan

Why not include a provision that everybody shall, in good weather, hunt on his own land and catch fish in rivers that…

— Noah Webster

The 20th of March in 1964, I went before the Secretary of State to qualify to run as an official candidate for…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

With Congress and the S.E.C. so heavily peopled by lawyers, and with lawyers having been so heavily involved in drafting financial disclosure…

— Charlie Munger

Congress is a long game. It takes a long time to wield influence in Washington, D.C.

— Ritchie Torres

I am the first podiatrist to serve in the U.S. Congress.

— Brad Wenstrup

I am very happy to be nominated by the Congress party to contest the Lok Sabha elections.

— Nagma

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.

— Cullen Hightower

'Talk is cheap, ESPECIALLY when Congress does it!'

— Andrew Guzaldo

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

— Virgil Goode

9/11 references are like Lay's potato chips...no Congress can make just one.

— Jon Stewart

Stiffening the spine of progressive members of Congress is crucial.

— Ezra G. Levin