Congress Quotes · Page 8

Congress is not a party which fades when not in power

— P. Chidambaram

It's time Congress got its priorities straight.

— Mitch McConnell

Everyone knows the DMK and the BJP hold different views.

— M. K. Stalin

I never believed that my service in the U.S. Congress should become a permanent career.

— Mike Ross

We don't need to allow any more Nancy Pelosies to wind up in Congress.

— Michael Steele

Congress may not get the Internet, but the Internet doesn't get Congress, either.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

Complying with requests from Congress is not optional. It is mandatory.

— Pete Hoekstra

The United States Congress, like a lot of rich people, lives in two houses.

— John Green

I'm probably one of the only people who has voted for the speaker of the House but didn't serve in Congress.

— Martha McSally

To my colleagues in Congress: serving with you has been the honor of a lifetime - particularly during some of the darkest…

— Dean Phillips

Keith Ellison is an organizer's organizer.He's one of the only Muslims in Congress, so you have a big statement there.

— Van Jones

The Congress will form the government on its own and people will teach a fitting lesson to the TRS.

— Vijayashanti

Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak our broken system.…

— Francine Busby

Before I could become a military officer or a Member of Congress, I was required to do one thing: Take an oath…

— Ted Lieu

In the United States large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation’s funeral at our expense.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If I have learned anything from my time in Congress, it is that the only way we are going to solve the…

— Will Hurd

And I agree that the Democratic legislators in Massachusetts might have given some advice to Republicans in Congress about how to cooperate.…

— Barack Obama

The shutdown itself is bad but not devastating. The real danger will come up in a couple of weeks. There's legislation which…

— Noam Chomsky

We are scheduled to meet this year fewer days than any Congress since at least 1948. And that is even before I…

— Jim Cooper

Essentially, how do you go after [Donald] Trump to have a real shot of taking back control of Congress in 2018? Democrats…

— Chuck Todd

We have unleashed aspirations of youngsters. Democracy is not going to go backwards. India is too big a country to be run…

— Rahul Gandhi

I sincerely hope that the incoming Congress will be alive, as it should be, to the importance of our foreign trade and…

— William Howard Taft

The officers of Congress, may come upon you now, fortified with all the terrors of paramount federal authority. Excisemen taxmen may come…

— Patrick Henry

We mean business, George Bush, ... and we're going to go to Congress and we're going to ask them, 'How many more…

— Cindy Sheehan

“In 1996 Dorothy Mackey wrote an Op-ed piece, “Violence from comrades a fact of life for military women.” ABC News 20/ 20…

— Diane Chamberlain

The Constitution is not a law, but it empowers the people to make laws... The Constitution tells us what shall not be…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

Money cannot be applied to the *general welfare*, otherwise than by an application of it to some *particular* measure conducive to the…

— James Madison

When I die, I want to be remembered as a woman who lived in the twentieth century and who dared to be…

— Shirley Chisholm

Financial markets are supposed to swing like a pendulum: They may fluctuate wildly in response to exogenous shocks, but eventually they are…

— George Soros

We have some of the most influential Members of Congress here today, and I do hope that we can get this appropriation…

— John F. Kennedy

In a democracy the responsibility for the Government's economic policies, which so affect the economy, normally rests with the elected representative of…

— Wright Patman

we have not been impressed with any attribute of the Senate other than its appearance and manners. We have heard the best…

— Beatrice Webb

We demand Congress access and publicly release Donald Trump's tax returns!

— Rashida Tlaib

Let me clarify to you, I am not team B for BJP. We are always team A, the winning team.

— J. Jayalalithaa

I will fight hard for my constituents in Congress as I have done in the state Senate.

— Ted Lieu

Congress does investigations better than they do anything else.

— Mitch Landrieu

Congress requires states to draw single-member districts.

— Thomas E. Mann

If you give Congress a chance to vote on both sides of an issue, it will always do it.

— Les Aspin

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

— Don Nickles

Congress has no power to make any religious establishments.

— Roger Sherman