Congress Quotes · Page 50

Well, it's not a pleasant experience. And it's a terribly political process, because that thing was initiated by the Congress and by,…

— Bruce Babbitt

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much…

— Abraham Lincoln

I was never consulted before the bifurcation. Injustice has been done to Andhra Pradesh, which had no revenues.

— N. Chandrababu Naidu

Historically, the minority party in Congress votes against raising the debt limit, forcing the majority party to whip its members into casting…

— Peter Welch

The more Modi comes to Tamil Nadu, the more it will work in DMK's favour and is a plus point. He comes…

— M. K. Stalin

Congress shall never disarm any citizen unless such as are or have been in actual rebellion.

— James Madison

It's only under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership that the country can foresee a bright future.

— Nirmala Sitharaman

You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporate boards, in tenured positions in…

— Gloria Steinem

We in Congress need to support the American forces in every conceivable way, giving them the tools to continue to convert, capture…

— Bob Inglis

If there ever is government-run health care, the first ones to sign up should be the president and every member of Congress,…

— Mike Ross

Were anyone wondering how Sen. Harry Reid intended to manage life in the minority, it took one day of the 114th Congress…

— Kimberley Strassel

Because the Bush Administration will set no timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, both chambers of Congress acted to…

— Jan Schakowsky

I wouldn't approach the issue of judging in the way the president does. Judges can't rely on what's in their heart. They…

— Sonia Sotomayor

For Members of Congress, we are saying here on the Democratic side of the aisle we are not going to vote for…

— Kendrick Meek

An old theory holds that air conditioning ruined Congress. Members no longer had to flee the Washington heat to spend the summer…

— John Dickerson

One thing was very clear and I made it always very clear at the beginning when I got into the governorship, and…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

In my 31 years in Congress, I have seen a lot of changes. We made some substantial policy changes that have improved…

— Ralph Regula

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

— Brian Schatz

As soon as the 116th Congress began, it became clear that getting anything accomplished would require thinking outside the box - and…

— Michael Waltz

I think this sets a very bad precedent, the president unilaterally on his own starting war without any consent from Congress.

— Rand Paul

If I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than…

— Evan Bayh

There's no assigned seats in the House. I spent the first couple months just getting to know my Congress. So I kind…

— Ryan Zinke

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

— Lawrence Lessig

Incumbents are safe, but party majorities are not. This fosters symbolic votes, message politics and little serious legislating in Congress.

— Thomas E. Mann

Since its inception, the 118th Congress, under the GOP majority, has been in a nonstop race to the bottom.

— Jasmine Crockett

Our democracy has survived for so many years in India. We should at least give credit to the Congress for that.

— Nana Patekar

How many times will this Congress waste time on an issue that a majority of Americans do not want?

— Raul Grijalva

As Members of Congress, we weren't sent to Washington to do what's easy - we were sent here to take action, even…

— Brian Mast

Some members of Congress now are complaining they are underpaid. They want to propose a pay raise. You can't blame them. A…

— Jay Leno

Every theistic religion, including Catholicism, Mainline Protestantism, Judaism, Mormonism, and Islam, has traditionally held homosexual congress in moral opprobrium.

— Michael J. Knowles

In Congress, I will fight so that my kids, Magnum, Maverick, Madlyn, and Major, get to grow up and never have to…

— Brian Mast

Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations.

— Diane Ravitch

The American people need to know that decisions we're making in Congress are about the interests of the American people, not potential…

— Andy Kim

There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of…

— James K. Polk

I was eleventh-grade class president. That was the first elective office I held until I came into Congress.

— Donna Edwards

The president has immense powers, but he cannot spend money unless we, the people's representatives in Congress, have agreed that he can.

— Tom Malinowski

Obama tried to make deals with Republicans, and I don't think he realized he'd have such an insanely opposing Congress.

— Saikat Chakrabarti

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets…

— Wendell Phillips

One faction of one party, in one house of Congress, in one branch of government, doesn't get to shut down the entire…

— Barack Obama