Congress Quotes

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Our representative democracy is not working because the Congress that is supposed to represent the voters does not respond to their needs. I believe the… — Shirley Chisholm
When I die, I want to be remembered as a woman who lived in the twentieth century and who dared to be a catalyst of… — Shirley Chisholm
I was the first American citizen to be elected to Congress in spite of the double drawbacks of being female and having skin darkened by… — Shirley Chisholm
Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state — Dean Rusk
Our tenet ever was . . . that Congress had not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but were restrained to those specifically… — Thomas Jefferson
But the Chief Justice says, 'There must be an ultimate arbiter somewhere.' True, there must; but does that prove it is either party? The ultimate… — Thomas Jefferson
You do well to wish to learn our arts and ways of life, and above all, the religion of Jesus Christ. These will make you… — George Washington
Besides the danger of a direct mixture of religion and civil government, there is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite… — James Madison
I consider it…as subverting the fundamental and characteristic principle of the Government…and as bidding defiance to the sense in which the Constitution is known to… — James Madison
All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle… — John Quincy Adams
I will leave the U.S Congress when the term for which I was elected expires in January 2011 and return to the practice of law… — Mario Diaz-Balart
He obtained from Congress the right to borrow from the people by selling to it the 'bonds' of States ... and the Government and the… — Otto von Bismarck
The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against… — Arundhati Roy
We must start now to provide additional stimulus to the modernization of American industrial plants I shall propose to the Congress a new tax incentive… — John F. Kennedy
No country can possibly move ahead, no free society can possibly be sustained, unless it has an educated citizenry whose qualities of mind and heart… — John F. Kennedy
I have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency. — Dan Quayle
I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate. — Dan Quayle
The Congress will push me to raise taxes, and I'll say no, and they'll push, and I'll say no, and they'll push again and I'll… — George H. W. Bush
We've had a Congress that's spent money like John Edwards at a beauty shop. — Mike Huckabee
Five people in robes said they are bigger than the voters of California and Congress combined. And bigger than God. May He forgive us all. — Mike Huckabee
And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a… — John Grisham
One of my big beliefs about Washington is that we highly overstate the power of individuals and highly underrate seeing Washington as a system, in… — Ezra Klein
I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city… — Warren Christopher
They [Democrats in Congress] believe in communism. They believe and have called for a revolution. You're going to have to shoot them in the head.… — Glenn Beck
To put it another way: a conference is an elite meeting on equal terms; a congress is a group of elites meeting on opposite terms;… — Malcolm Bradbury

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