Congress Quotes · Page 22

I fundamentally believe in term limits, for Congress, presidents, and board members.

— Jim Breyer

There is certainly no chance of joining the Congress.

— J. Jayalalithaa

Oh, if only I could be President and Congress, too, just for ten minutes.

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

— Carla Hayden

Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.

— Mark Twain

The BJP does not intend to use Parliament to project Congress's corruption.

— Nirmala Sitharaman

I have been with the Congress because I believe in a secular ideology.

— Nagma

“On Congress: “Nothing ever happens around here.”

— Rand Paul

To most Alaskans, Clinton is remembered as being the one individual who has shut Alaska down by vetoing ANWR when we successfully…

— Lisa Murkowski

Lobbyists have more offices in Washington than the President. You see, the President only tells Congress what they should do. Lobbyists tell'em…

— Will Rogers

Today I am announcing that I will not seek a tenth term in the United States Congress this November.

— Lincoln Diaz-Balart

Persecution of Christians is growing around the world, and Congress needs to pay more attention to it.

— Elliott Abrams

I do not suspect that Jefferson or Madison ever envisioned Congress honoring the 2,560th anniversary of the birth of Confucius or supporting…

— Eric Cantor

Obviously, overall infrastructure needs on the Southwest and Northern borders are mounting. We need a major push in Congress to remedy this.

— Pete Domenici

In Congress, I'll work hard to encourage investment in education, particularly with respect to technology and bridging the digital divide.

— Hakeem Jeffries

Democrats' definition of ich - always seems to be set just above whatever the salary happens to be for a member of…

— Steve Steckler

So the president is like, "Well, once upon a time it was Congress's job to decide whether or not we attacked countries,…

— Hank Green

The question of perpetual copyright is, in my judgement, entitled to the full and favorable consideration of the Congress of an enlightened…

— Florence Earle Coates

There are 249 millionaires in Congress. Remember a couple of years ago when this new Congress told us they had the solution…

— Jay Leno

While the Congress came out with Federal Investigation Agency Bill after Mumbai attacks, the BJP had come out with POTA. However, the…

— Sitaram Yechury

The First Continental Congress made its first act a prayer, the beginning of a great tradition. We have then a lesson from…

— Ronald Reagan

I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House…

— Neil Armstrong

When you succeed (with legislation), that feeling is exhilaration. And it takes leadership from a president, which means you meet with members…

— Dick Gephardt

We have to change the system. The system is very rotten. The executive is corrupt, the Congress is corrupt, the judiciary is…

— Joseph Estrada

How to check these unconstitutional invasions of rights by the Federal judiciary? Not by impeachment in the first instance, but by a…

— Thomas Jefferson

When a social movement adopts the compromises of legislators, it has forgotten its role, which is to push and challenge the politicians,…

— Howard Zinn

I say that the Second Amendment doesn't allow for exceptions - or else it would have read that the right "to keep…

— Harry Browne

We're an ignorant nation right now. We're not really capable, I do not think, the majority of our people, of making the…

— Walter Cronkite

“In short, it is remarkably difficult to find instances in nineteenth-century federal law in which the executive offered relief to anyone in…

— Philip Hamburger

The provision of the Constitution giving the war making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons:…

— Abraham Lincoln

[A] family with two kids that earns the minimum wage still lives below the poverty line. That's wrong. That's why, since the…

— Barack Obama

I believe in helping our fellow man in need. I believe that reaching into your own pockets to help someone in need…

— Walter E. Williams

Congress constitutionally lacks general police powers.

— Mike Lee

Unlike the Congress and BJP, which seek vote on communal lines, I seek votes on issues.

— H. D. Kumaraswamy

In Congress, I was a relentless advocate for fiscal responsibility.

— Ann Kirkpatrick

We're half the people; we should be half the Congress.

— Jeannette Rankin

Jayalalitha has turned out to be a failure as chief minister.

— Subramanian Swamy

My career in Congress is a story of before Sandy Hook and after Sandy Hook.

— Chris Murphy

Modi is a disgrace to the prime minister's post.

— N. Chandrababu Naidu

If Congress grants permission, I would put armed forces in the streets.

— Jair Bolsonaro