Congress Quotes
1506 Congress quotes by 894 unique authors
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I loved my time in Congress, but people who spend all of their time planning to run for office have very few useful skills to…
— John Sununu
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We have held forums here at the White House on workplace flexibility, and the first major bill signed into law by President Obama was the…
— Valerie Jarrett
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Women leading means that Congress is working to create jobs, make quality child care more affordable and strengthen the middle class because we understand that…
— Barbara Mikulski
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Congress is unpopular. Incumbents are unpopular.
— Joshua Micah Marshall
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My challenge to members on both sides of the aisle is to stand up and have the integrity to say that we have a dead…
— Jason Chaffetz
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Obstruction of Congress in our work is a crime.
— Jason Chaffetz
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Congress has an opportunity to take advantage of the opening created by Justice Kennedy later this year when it reauthorizes the federal No Child Left…
— Jonathan Kozol
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You need to look at Congress as having a certain capacity. Now, the capacity varies from year to year and from body to body, but…
— Karl Rove
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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel…
— E L Doctorow
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I happened to have the privilege of serving in Congress. It will be 16 years at the end of this term. And I think I…
— Dennis Kucinich
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A sagging economy, a soaring national debt, and an increasingly restive Congress pushed Obama to order troop reductions that are both deeper and faster than…
— Ron Fournier
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Let us not forget, the financial crisis had its roots in the decision by Congress to embark on a course of social justice to get…
— Ed Royce
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The Small Business Lending Fund was cleverly named by its authors last Congress. Since its implementation, however, it would appear a more appropriate name would…
— Ed Royce
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Women oftentimes are the ones making those economic decisions, sitting around the kitchen table and trying to figure out how to pay for rising gas…
— Cathy McMorris Rodgers
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I know exactly what I will do. I will go and work with the Congress of South African Students.
— Kgalema Motlanthe
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Congress suffers a great deal of criticism for its partisan acrimony. But while we may disagree politically, and air our opposition in this chamber, it…
— Kay Bailey Hutchison
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Congress has repeatedly passed laws and otherwise raised a ruckus about indecent language on the broadcast airwaves used for radio and television.
— Reed Hundt
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The public owns the airwaves; Congress gave them to broadcasters for free, with the understanding that they would serve the public interest while trying to…
— Reed Hundt
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When I first ran for Congress in 1992, I campaigned on a pledge to make affordable, quality healthcare a right, not a privilege, for all…
— Bart Stupak
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We need to send a message to Congress and the president that we want them to take the actions that are needed to preserve climate…
— James Hansen
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