Congress Quotes · Page 60

Millions of Americans are struggling to pay their mortgages. They have a right to know whether members of Congress receive sweetheart deals…

— Jeb Hensarling

Mike Pence, of course, is a governor with executive experience and doing well in a Midwestern state, but also served in Congress.…

— Steve Scalise

We're committed to working with Congress to doing what the president said he was always going to do, which is cut the…

— Christina Romer

When you're the president of the United States, you have no money unless the Congress says, 'Here's what you can spend it…

— Dana Perino

Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will…

— Anonymous

Congress has the authority to authorize spending and investment to historically neglected and marginalized communities.

— Jamaal Bowman

Congress is a middle-aged, middle-class, white male power structure ... no wonder it's been so totally unresponsive to the needs of this country.

— Bella Abzug

I think that for the next short period of time, our No. 1 priority is Congress needs to do its work and…

— Jacob Lew

As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept…

— George Washington

The longer we go without strong leadership from the Administration and until we see significant progress in the day-to-day lives of the…

— Dennis Cardoza

Let's come together and form our own party, and give the other parties hell - and then vette who we want, and…

— Louis Farrakhan

Now, six months after he sent the military back into combat to take on the terror group calling itself the Islamic State,…

— Peter Baker

I would like to believe I would not have behaved differently had I not made a term limits pledge, but my own…

— Tom Coburn

Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper…

— Evan Bayh

In early January I introduced my legislation, which, besides prohibiting Federal funding of human cloning, also expresses the sense of Congress that…

— Cliff Stearns

Consider that in a galaxy far, far away (otherwise known as the 1990s), President Clinton felt that he had to assure an…

— Matt Welch

Each year thousands of embryos, no bigger than the head of a pin, are created in the process of in vitro fertilization,…

— Lois Capps

I have the utmost respect for our nation's veterans, and it is an honor to represent our servicemen and women in Congress.

— Byron Donalds

Congress must continue its support for U.S. aid to Israel, and Congress must confront terrorists and their backers like Iran.

— Ronny Jackson

Marching with over a million women in support of our reproductive rights was one of the most empowering things I have done,…

— Sheila Jackson Lee

Members of Congress have more in common with the people they hobnob in Washington, D.C., than they do with the people they're…

— Ben Shapiro

Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area, and bureaucracy has to stand trial before Congress now.

— Aaron Broussard

President Bush has urged people to get back to normal and today Congress announced that they are accepting bribes again.

— Jay Leno

I think it's important that we have different perspectives. We need more diversity in Congress.

— Deb Haaland

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

— Theodore Roosevelt

It is the RSS and the BJP that have always initiated political violence in our midst; not just in Kerala, but in…

— Pinarayi Vijayan

I cut the taxes on everybody. I didn't cut them. The Congress cut them. I asked them to cut them.

— George W. Bush

In 1981, I spoke at the Olympic Congress. I was scandalised that I was the first athlete to be given that chance.…

— Sebastian Coe

There are even more fatalities from cirrhoses of the liver [than automobiles], yet Congress has not once mentioned outfitting us all with…

— Patrick Bedard

Yes, [I am accusing the CIA of] misleading the Congress of the United States, misleading the Congress of the United States. I…

— Nancy Pelosi

Things were very different back in 1992. There was unrest in the Middle East, we had a gridlocked Congress, and everybody was…

— Craig Ferguson

In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination…

— Franklin Pierce

The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today.

— Marty Meehan

I think that Goldman Sachs and the Pentagon determine more of America's outcome then any president or any congress, that sounds a…

— Henry Rollins

We need a Congress that understands the sanctity of life, the sanctity of traditional values, the sanctity of traditional marriage.

— Thom Tillis

One of the primary reasons I first ran for Congress was to be a voice for our troops, veterans and military families.

— Kirsten Gillibrand

What type of politics is the Congress practising, wherein its leaders commit the sin of looting money meant for the welfare of…

— Smriti Irani

Most people do not realize that there was a paid chaplain in Congress even before the Revolutionary War ended.

— Francis Schaeffer

My appetite for public policy and changing it, and not only being a part of the conversation, but affecting it in a…

— Harold Ford, Jr

I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician…

— Harold H. Greene