In your country club, your church, and business, about fifteen percent of the people are screwballs, lightweights, and boobs, and you would… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
So I think that if we want to have a Congress, if we want to have government that looks like America, if… — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
Being a physician, you can either treat the symptoms or cure the disease. This Congress has been treating the symptoms. It's time… — Joe Heck Copy Share Image
If you want to right-size executive power relative to the other branches of government, the best way to do that is to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In seeking the help of the Congress and our countrymen, I pledged no easy answers. I pledged, and asked, only toil and… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
In the year of our Lord 2010, the voters of the United States elected the worst Congress in the history of the… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court, in 2005, emphasized and contrasted the great power of Congress under the Commerce Clause to regulate interstate commerce versus… — Barbara Ann Radnofsky Copy Share Image
[T]ax cuts are not just something that all taxpayers deserve, but also the best way to curb government spending. It is the… — Zell Miller Copy Share Image
“Well, then he would be at war with the government, and death was an unfortunate side effect of any revolution. Change always… — C.J. Hill Copy Share Image
With the death of bin Laden, it's finally time for Congress to bring back the pre-9-11 legal norm, before we decided it… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
The number one thing I will take with me is my experience as a social worker who saw what happened to families… — Kyrsten Sinema Copy Share Image
The Congress has had an uneasy relationship with banks and bankers since Alexander Hamilton. It took the United States until 1913 to… — Robert Zoellick Copy Share Image
I don't want to make a member of Congress do something that that member of Congress's constituents would not approve of, or… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The bigger issue is that we're communicating directly with voters [during the president campaign]. For those members of congress that endorse us,… — Kellyanne Conway Copy Share Image
The public owns the airwaves; Congress gave them to broadcasters for free, with the understanding that they would serve the public interest… — Reed Hundt Copy Share Image
If the administration asks for $5 and Congress appropriates $4, that's what they get. If the government creates a subterfuge by going… — Lamar Alexander Copy Share Image
See where Congress passed a two billion dollar bill to relieve bankers' mistakes. You can always count on us helping those who… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
When Congressman [Mike] Pence was in Congress, he was the chief cheerleader for the privatization of Social Security. Even after President [George… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
'Sue and settle' involves the creation of environmental rules and regulations through lawsuits filed by environmental groups against the EPA, not through… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
I've been around Congress long enough to know there are issues we may never see eye-to-eye from the opposite aisle, but we… — Charles B. Rangel Copy Share Image
I think the Congress is elected by people, it represents the people, and works for their interest. The first question that they… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
I certainly enjoy going on stage and lecturing and talking to Congress. That's a personality explanation. And given government proposals, I thought… — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share Image
God...should never have been expelled from America's schools. As we struggle to teach our children...we dare not forget that our civilization was… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The theory is that election to Congress is tantamount to being dispatched to Washington on a looting raid for the enrichment of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The work of Congress is not about my personal life, this is about delivering results for my constituents, finding bipartisan solutions, and… — George Santos Copy Share Image
Since September 11th Congress has created the Department of Homeland Security, more than doubled the homeland security budget and implemented a bipartisan… — Doc Hastings Copy Share Image
Congress must go further to protect the right to privacy, to end the NSA's dragnet surveillance of ordinary Americans, to make the… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Technology has changed almost everything. One institution remains stubbornly anchored in the past. It's where I work - the United States Congress,… — Cathy McMorris Rodgers Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court has never ruled that Congress can use the Commerce Clause to require individuals to engage in an activity they… — John Cornyn Copy Share Image
I think it's time... that we reform Congress to the point where all public assistance comes in one single committee. One area… — Louie Gohmert Copy Share Image
When the NRA is funding your campaign and giving you, you know, millions of dollars, are you likely to pass gun legislation… — Ana Kasparian Copy Share Image
Though no one wants war, Congress needed to give the President the authority he needs to protect America while encouraging the use… — Allen Boyd Copy Share Image
The intelligence community's 2002 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) stated, in a formal presentation to President Bush and to Congress, its view that… — Laurence Silberman Copy Share Image
Ever since I came to Congress in 1992, there are those who have been trying to silence my voice. I've been told… — Cynthia McKinney Copy Share Image
The beauty of our democracy is that the final authority is not the president of the United States, but instead the American… — Lee Zeldin Copy Share Image
Today the people from my State of Tennessee would listen to this debate, or even talk about a reference to God on… — Zach Wamp Copy Share Image
Anytime a member of Congress wants to travel abroad - which we do from time to time as part of our official… — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
As the longest serving Independent in the history of the United States Congress, as somebody who came into office by defeating an… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
In 1975, Congress passed a law requiring fuel efficiency standards to double over 10 years, with incremental targets that auto manufacturers were… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
![“[T]ax cuts are not just something that all taxpayers deserve, but also the best way to curb government spending. It is the best kind of tax reform. If the money never reaches the table, Congress can't gobble it up.” quote by Zell Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/79b/zell-miller-21239_best-way_t-ax-cuts-are-not-just-something-that-al_1970343.png)
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