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Today the people from my State of Tennessee would listen to this debate, or even talk about a reference to God on our money or… — Zach Wamp
I read all these stories that I don't know anything about politics. But I must know something. I've had some good victories in Congress, and… — Donald T. Regan
We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap,… — Margaret Spellings
What practical conclusions may we now draw for our propaganda work among women? The task of this Party Congress must not be to issue detailed… — Clara Zetkin
I have the highest number of Social Security recipients of any Member of Congress, and it is always good to hear about how women in… — Ginny Brown-Waite
Congress should fund research on the effects that violent video games have on young minds... We don't benefit from ignorance. We don't benefit from not… — Barack Obama
There have been high crimes and misdemeanors, but they have been committed by the special prosecutor and the Congress, not the president. — Donella Meadows
We in this Congress have a choice. The American people have a right to exercise a choice on this issue, as to whether our men… — Raul Grijalva
With respect to the northeastern boundary of the United States, no official correspondence between this Government and that of Great Britain has passed since that… — Martin Van Buren
Why not include a provision that everybody shall, in good weather, hunt on his own land and catch fish in rivers that are public property… — Noah Webster
It's so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much on the bench,… — Florence Ellinwood Allen
Sovereignty inheres in the right to issue money. And the American sovereignty belongs by right to the people, and their representatives in Congress have the… — Ezra Pound
The phase of the usury system which we are trying to analyze is more or less Patterson's perception that the Bank of England could have… — Ezra Pound
Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, of course, lays out the delegated, enumerated, and therefore limited powers of Congress. Only through a deliberate misreading… — Ed Crane
The First and Fourteenth Amendments say that Congress and the States shall make "no law" which abridges freedom of speech or of the press. In… — William O. Douglas
It is fundamental that the great powers of Congress to conduct war and to regulate the Nation's foreign relations are subject to the constitutional requirements… — Arthur Goldberg
Corruption is no stranger to Washington; it is a famous resident. — Walter Goodman
No one in America fully understands the constantly changing Internal Revenue Code. Agents of the IRS do not, judges do not, congressmen do not, and… — G. Edward Griffin
[W]ar is a question, under our constitution, not of Executive, but of Legislative cognizance. It belongs to Congress to say whether the Nation shall of… — Alexander Hamilton
Have we the means of resisting disciplined armies, when our only defence, the militia, is put in the hands of Congress? — Patrick Henry
For the power given to Congress by the Constitution does not extend to the internal regulation of the commerce of a State (that is to… — Thomas Jefferson
Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy. — Michael Kinsley
There is danger in the concentration of control in the television and radio networks, especially in the large television and radio stations; danger in the… — Eugene McCarthy
Freedom is always wise. — Alexander Meiklejohn

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