Congress Quotes · Page 30

I've called on Congress to repeal the so-called Defense of Marriage Act to help end discrimination to help end discrimination against same-sex…

— Barack Obama

The Constitution says Congress has complete control over who is and who is not a US citizen.

— Rush Limbaugh

A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that American history…

— Theodore White

Media companies, under the guise of piracy, are asking congress to give them more control over fair use. Hollywood wants to control…

— Anonymous

I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.

— Crystal Eastman

Mr. Roosevelt, this is my principal request--it is almost the last request I shall ever make of anybody. Before you leave the…

— Susan B. Anthony

[Congress] and their cronies secure more than one hundred billion dollars in corporate welfare

— Lawrence Lessig

As members of Congress, we have to pursue the Congressional Review Act legislation as soon as possible.

— Brian Schatz

We have things to say about Congress and all of that. I think we may have our magnum opus coming yet. It's…

— Joss Whedon

Internal self-government under a local constitution was authorized by Congress and approved by the residents in 1952, but federal law is supreme…

— Dick Thornburgh

It is essential that the women's preventive coverage benefit, including contraception, be available to all women, regardless of what health plan they…

— Gwen Moore

Of course, the truth is that the congresspersons are too busy raising campaign money to read the laws they pass. The laws…

— Dave Barry

Don't people know that they don't have to heckle the president of the United States? That's what Congress is for.

— Bob Hope

I think there is some overreach in the sense that the EPA now says: if Congress doesn't pass greenhouse emissions regulations or…

— Rand Paul

My last comment was, though, that Congress has cooked the books.

— Don Nickles

The president doesn't get an automatic pay raise, so they can't freeze it for him. But it also does extend the pay…

— Susan Davis

If Congress wants to mess with the retirement program, why don't we let them start by changing their retirement program, and not…

— Mike Huckabee

Running for Congress isn't something I ever thought I would do.

— Deb Haaland

Congress does investigations better than they do anything else.

— Mitch Landrieu

Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again.

— Lawrence Lessig

Perhaps sensing the dismal failure of its efforts to show that 'established by the State' means 'established by the State or the…

— Antonin Scalia

I think the Supreme Court has, as an equal branch of government, the ability to overrule Congress and the president. But I…

— Rick Santorum

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'm going to Congress to break down the doors of power.

— Zephyr Teachout

The political status legislation which emerged in Congress in 1990 and 1991 did not receive the support needed for enactment into law…

— Dick Thornburgh