Congress Quote by Hank Green

The last time I checked, the president was supposed to sit down and figure out what he wanted and then get Congress to go…

— Diana Taylor

“If a president is the type of man who couples his hope with audacity, if he is willing to play Alinsky-style hardball despite his…

— Andrew McCarthy

A president just can't make much showing against congress. They lay awake nights, thinking up things to be against the president on.

— Will Rogers

The president is now having to deal with a Congress. He's never had to do that before. The president in the past, he has…

— Harry Reid

“If the president uses executive orders to legislate new laws, that would be an example of him subverting legislative power from Congress, and might…

— Gary Hansen

Though no one wants war, Congress needed to give the President the authority he needs to protect America while encouraging the use of diplomacy…

— Allen Boyd

“The report made a science fiction-like case that the president was within his constitutional rights to reinterpret congressional legislation to conform more closely to…

— Rachel Maddow

Congress could always stop the President if Congress thinks that what the President has done exceeds the President's authority or is just wrong for…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“The President and the Congress are all very well in their way. They can say what they think they think, but it rests with…

— Theodore Roosevelt

If the president is the head of the American body politic, Congress is its gastrointestinal tract. Its vast and convoluted inner workings may be…

— Jon Stewart

The country wants the president and the Congress focused on jobs and the economy. Any regulation that the president promulgates that isn't focused on,…

— Mara Liasson

“as a planned result of the separation of powers, the president must persuade Congress of the rightness of his choices, and that is the…

— Jack Cashill