Congress Quotes · Page 26

Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.

— Mark Twain

Librarian of Congress: It's a librarian's dream.

— Carla Hayden

Oh, if only I could be President and Congress, too, just for ten minutes.

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

— Nagma

“On Congress: “Nothing ever happens around here.”

— Rand Paul

Congress constitutionally lacks general police powers.

— Mike Lee

Nothing but widespread suffering will produce any effect on Congress

— Nicholas Biddle

There is certainly no chance of joining the Congress.

— J. Jayalalithaa

It's a shame that we have to use whatever leverage we have in Congress to get the president to deal with the…

— Mitch McConnell

It is not true that Congress spends money like a drunken sailor. Drunken sailors spend their own money. Congress spends our money.

— Arthur Laffer

Congress must do what we said we would and find ways to pay for bills we propose so we don't leave future…

— Sharice Davids

Alok Verma cannot be sacked based on the Central Vigilance Commission's (CVC) report without being heard. PM Modi should not listen to…

— Subramanian Swamy

Their moral influence will then do infinitely more to advance the true interests of religion, than any measures which they may call…

— Richard Mentor Johnson

Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work.

— Zach Wamp

I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us.

— Eric Holder

Once the USMCA is sent to Congress, the House has a responsibility to step up and swiftly ratify the agreement.

— Mark Meadows

When I first came to Congress, the party was supposed to help you. Now, when a new member is sworn in, he…

— Jim Cooper

And I am saying, how about the other two branches? And putting the pressure on our representatives in the Senate and the…

— Sibel Edmonds

You put the republican members of congress who are up for re-election, and quite candidly, the democrats, because every democratic congressperson ought…

— Joe Madison

The Senate has sent President Obama a spending bill that gives the government enough money to keep going for two weeks. Our…

— Conan O'Brien

I not going to focus on what I have done in the past what I stand for, what I articulate to the…

— Dan Quayle

There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of…

— Noam Chomsky

My party was the only party that opposed the bifurcation of the state in Parliament, and I was suspended from the House…

— Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy

You can't help some increase from this point. I don't want any viewer to go away think a magic wand exists in…

— Warren Buffett

I think that the risk to all the progress we've made was at stake in the election because not just the president-elect…

— Barack Obama

Try walking the halls of Congress. It's Abercrombie & Fitch meets the Hair Club for Men. Lots of really photogenic young people…

— Michelle Malkin

The gag rule must be eliminated, and it's just the gag rule, we're not talking now even about funding abortion. We're talking…

— Eleanor Smeal

The programs that have been discussed over the last couple days in the press are secret in the sense that they are…

— Barack Obama

It is hard for us to admit we have a sin nature because we live in this system of checks and balances.…

— Donald Miller

Watching both the health care and climate/energy debates in Congress, it is hard not to draw the following conclusion: There is only…

— Thomas Friedman

The reality is we that have a corrupt campaign finance system which separates the American people's needs and desires from what Congress…

— Bernie Sanders

Sovereignty inheres in the right to issue money. And the American sovereignty belongs by right to the people, and their representatives in…

— Ezra Pound

I fundamentally believe in term limits, for Congress, presidents, and board members.

— Jim Breyer

One of my top priorities in Congress is to reduce U.S. dependence on fossil fuels.

— Lincoln Diaz-Balart

It is time for Congress to save the Postal Service, not dismantle it.

— Bernie Sanders

I could be an idiot, or I can serve in Congress, but I repeat myself.

— Mark Twain

Our founding fathers never intended that Congress be a career.

— Rush Limbaugh

Our immigration system is not broken. We don't need, and Congress shouldn't enact, amnesty.

— Jan C. Ting

Members of Congress must live according to the same laws as everyone else.

— Bobby Jindal

Prime Minister Modi [Narendra] is strong enough, and he's accomplished much.

— Jamie Dimon