Congress Quotes · Page 23

Dialogue is good, America used to talk to Iraq all the time. Members of Congress don't have any special skill in weapons…

— Dennis Kucinich

Even talking about change can be threatening to entrenched interests...Careers in the Pentagon, the board room, or the halls of Congress are…

— Mac Thornberry

Most of us complain about Congress. We say it's a place that doesn't reflect us; they don't listen to us. Actually, Congress…

— Bob Inglis

We're trying to convey how much easier it is than most people think, especially young people, to turn the country around if…

— Ralph Nader

The immigration bill - the new immigration bill - [Bill Clinton] has stripped the courts, which Congress can do under the leadership…

— Nat Hentoff

Economic and military power can be developed under the spur of laws and appropriations. But moral power does not derive from any…

— John Foster Dulles

Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction during their first term in Congress.

— John George Nicolay

Justice [Sonia]Sotomayor said, "Let's talk - you want to talk about the tax power."And I got like a 10-minute run on the…

— Donald Verrilli Jr

As Congress debates overhauling the nation's health care system, it should not authorize a reform plan that would further our financial woes.…

— Erik Paulsen

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

— Nagma

We talk about our military being degraded over time, and yet we've had folks who've been a part of Congress who have…

— Chris Christie

You spend a couple million dollars running for Congress, people get tired of seeing your face.

— Louie Gohmert

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

— Victor Hugo

Congress should not be like the Super Bowl where you have to have one team that's going to win and another team…

— John Breaux

I think we have a Tea Party mandate, and that Tea Party mandate is for good-government type of things, things like term…

— Rand Paul

The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team.

— Cal Thomas

A president just can't make much showing against congress. They lay awake nights, thinking up things to be against the president on.

— Will Rogers

We mustn't assume that we are going to deinvent government solely from inside the Beltway or within one or two sessions of…

— Jeb Bush

In this time of challenge, I am asking the prime minister to address Congress on the grave threats radical Islam and Iran…

— John Boehner

Campaigning for Congress is an issue of conviction, and there is no element of any personal gain in it.

— Mahesh Bhatt

It was President [Bill] Clinton and the United States congress in 1998 which said that the regime has to be changed because…

— Colin Powell

For far too long, the voices of Native Americans have been woefully underrepresented in Congress.

— Sharice Davids

Nobody can refuse a person who comes and asks for a job. Nobody can refuse a poor man when he goes and…

— Rahul Gandhi

I am a member of Congress. And I do have a choice as to whether or not to continue as DNC chair…

— Hillary Clinton

If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

— Will Rogers