Congress Quotes · Page 58

“It is not unpatriotic to acknowledge America’s faults. No country is perfect… We can’t reach the top of the mountain if we…

— Keith Ellison

Members of Congress are somewhat reluctant to tangle with a president who seems to have the backing of the American people.

— H. W. Brands

When women go off together we call it separatism. When men go off together we call it Congress.

— Kate Clinton

By statute, Congress has given the president the authority to suspend immigration - any class of immigration if he deems it in…

— Ted Cruz

I think concerns with a member of Congress with a cabinet official being active in business. I don't see why it wouldn't…

— Lindsey Graham

Let's say [Donald] Trump wins. Is Congress going to let him build a wall on the Mexican border? I don't think so.

— Gary Shilling

I guess the optimistic thing is that those people in Congress who are climate deniers, I think their time has run out.

— Robert Redford

Whether ours shall be a government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people.

— Archibald Cox

“Now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and…

— Anonymous

Glossed over the disastrous war and its multibillion-dollar price tag and implied again that our presence in Iraq is somehow improving the…

— John F. Kerry

It's important to remember that whatever the presidential candidates of either party say, they will have to interact with the United States…

— Tom Cotton

In reference to the Army and Navy, lately employed with so much distinction on active service, care shall be taken to insure…

— Zachary Taylor

The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised…

— Eliot Spitzer

I'm not the first to have raised these democratic concerns. Many have faulted the court for its lack of clarity in certain…

— Mike DeWine

We're trying to convey how much easier it is than most people think, especially young people, to turn the country around if…

— Ralph Nader

It is important that Congress works to promote home ownership in Indian Country. These federal housing funds and programs will help young…

— Rick Renzi

I'm ashamed that Congress finds billions for pork-barrel subsidies but fails to find money for veterans' health care.

— John McCain

I think there are lot of people who do politics in the name of Dr. Lohia, but his dream has been fulfilled…

— Yogi Adityanath

But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use…

— Simone de Beauvoir

If you look through history, all of the great work we've done in Congress has been around a table of compromise, when…

— Claire McCaskill

The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engages in gestures of superficial equality.

— William Rehnquist

The president [Barack Obama] did introduce a jobs bill that could not clear Congress. The Republicans simply would not work with him.

— Julianne Malveaux

The Pentagon today will not allow any of these people who work for the Pentagon, to talk to the media. They have…

— Curt Weldon

I will not do anything against the basic principles of my party. The Bharatiya Janata Party will function under its declared policy.

— Amit Shah

People know Modi did not do anything for himself. Whatever he has done is for people and the country.

— Yogi Adityanath

In 2010, we have to focus on electing a new Congress and in 2012 we have to focus on electing a new president.

— Andrew P. Harris

Congress is a co-equal branch of government, with a long and rich history of standing up to the executive branch.

— Charlie Sykes

Greater transparency and accountability in Congress is something we should all be able to support.

— Michelle Steel

With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.

— Ron Fournier

Our party is the upcoming alternative force in Tamil Nadu and both the ruling AIADMK and DMK are corrupt and both parties…

— Tamilisai Soundararajan

Politics being done by BJP and Congress by leveling accusations at each other over India-China border issue is not in the interest…

— Mayawati

Redistricting and a broken, polarized Congress have made it tough to be a moderate in Congress.

— Mike Ross

I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.

— Lajos Kossuth

As Members of Congress, we have a duty to elevate the discourse and unify during times of crisis.

— Lauren Boebert

[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

New mothers in Congress should not be forced to choose between their families and their constituents.

— Anna Paulina Luna

President Obama said he is going to use the Gulf disaster to push a new energy bill through Congress. How about using…

— Jay Leno

I never supported violence. Before the formation of TMC, I was a member of the Congress Party. Gandhi's Congress. Non-violence is a…

— Mamata Banerjee

I will not deny that there are men in the district better qualified than I to go to Congress, but gentlemen, these…

— Anonymous

For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain…

— Mahatma Gandhi