Congress Quotes · Page 84

BJP is a political party with a difference that aims at good governance. This is proved by the fact that three of…

— Narendra Modi

The thing I'd want people to say about me is that, in some way, I helped bring the Senate and the Congress…

— Charles Schumer

Campaign boot camp started as an opportunity to work in a grassroots way with people who were running for Congress. Colleagues on…

— Christine Pelosi

I have lectured at Town Hall N.Y., The Library of Congress, Harvard, Yale, Amherst, Wellesley, Columbia, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Louisiana State University,…

— Paul Engle

When this president was sworn into office, he was handed a deficit of over a trillion dollars. Republicans were in control of…

— Jay Carney

Dozens of members of Congress will be retiring next month, and some should be missed. But there is only one Tom Coburn,…

— John Fund

In my judgment it is the duty of Congress, while respecting to the uttermost the conscientious convictions and religious scruples of every…

— James A. Garfield

The people can never willfully betray their own interests: But they may possibly be betrayed by the representatives of the people; and…

— James Madison

The 1935 Social Security Act established 65 as the age of eligibility for payouts. But welfare state politics quickly becomes a bidding…

— George Will

BJP raised so much horror of jungle-raj returning to Bihar if me and Nitish formed the government there. What happened? People voted…

— Lalu Prasad Yadav

Thank you to the readers of the 'Huffington Post' for voting me the 'Hottest Freshman' of the 111th Congress. It's about time…

— Aaron Schock

The military taught me that teamwork is important, which is why I work with both Republicans and Democrats in Congress to get…

— Steve Stivers

Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling appeared before Congress. Do you think they even bothered swearing him in? Now he is denying he…

— Jay Leno

I think there's even a chance that [R&D and innovation budgets] might be increased [during Donald Trump Administration] and we should go…

— Bill Gates

There are many good reasons to fear a nuclear Iran, but also many good reasons to fear the consequences of launching a…

— Doug Bandow

[The necessary and proper clause] neither enlarges any power specifically granted; nor is it a grant of any new power to Congress;…

— Joseph Story

I first met Nelson Mandela when I was in my late 20s, in 1993. I was helping facilitate an African National Congress…

— Kumi Naidoo

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

The Congress talks and talks and talks and talks, but doesn't act. I'm going to continue to work with my colleagues on…

— Luis Gutierrez

Post-bifurcation, I raised my voice and sat on an indefinite fast in Guntur in October 2015. Eight days into the fast, I…

— Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy

Like an armed warrior, like a plumed knight, James G. Blaine marched down the halls of the American Congress and threw his…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The Congress is not willing to think about the long term. They act like activist shareholders, to use that phrase again. They're…

— Hillary Clinton

There is a reason why these people [from Wall Street] are putting huge amounts of money into our political system. And in…

— Bernie Sanders

Look around. Oil companies guzzle down the billions in profits. Billionaires pay a lower tax rate than their secretaries, and Wall Street…

— Elizabeth Warren

I think conventional wisdom is that time is not on our side. But there are a number of members of Congress who…

— John McCain

It's really important for me to do the fundamentals of this job really, really well. And to let people know that I…

— Anonymous

Does the U.S. Constitution stand for anything in an era of government excess? Can that founding document, which is supposed to restrain…

— Cal Thomas

Obama lost his ability to push his agenda through Congress when he received what he himself called a 'shellacking' in the November…

— John Podhoretz

The court follows elite opinion, not public opinion. And Democratic leaders in Congress and Republican leaders in Congress follow elite opinion as…

— Ted Cruz

There have been times when the Federal Reserve has restricted the money supply and raised interest rates to gain an end, which…

— Wright Patman

Whether wisely or not, one of the first priorities of the incoming Obama administration was to present a package of healthcare benefits,…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

The problem we have had on the budget all along is a lack of adult supervision on the part of the White…

— Bruce Bartlett

I think it's important that people know what raising the debt ceiling is. It's Congress giving permission to the federal government to…

— Michele Bachmann

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they…

— George Washington

More coming out about Saddam Hussein. We now know he takes Viagra and he has as many as six mistresses. No wonder…

— Jay Leno

Before they went on vacation, Congress voted to exempt themselves from Obamacare. They gave themselves a special exemption because they thought it…

— Jay Leno

The Trans Pacific Partnership (and fast-track authority to whisk it through Congress without debate) is fast approaching. If you haven't seen our…

— Robert Reich

President Bush will go down in history as the torture president. He has now defied a majority of Congress to allow the…

— Jennifer Daskal

Oil and coal? Of course, it's a fungible commodity and they don't flag, you know, the molecules, where it's going and where…

— Sarah Palin

When President Obama asked Congress to raise the debt ceiling $2 trillion and offered sequestration as an offset, I opposed it. I…

— Mike Turner