Congressman Quote by John F. Kennedy

Washington has seldom seen so numerous, so industrious or so insidious a lobby. There is every evidence that money without limit is being spent…

— Woodrow Wilson

The Congress is not willing to think about the long term. They act like activist shareholders, to use that phrase again. They're not thinking…

— Hillary Clinton

It's not fair to say that Congress spends money like a drunk sailor. At least the sailor is spending his own money!

— Ronald Reagan

As I was running for Congress in 2018, people across my district voiced a clear concern that Washington wasn't working for them, and was…

— Abigail Spanberger

There's a lot of politics over who gets the next allocation of Congressional funding.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

The American people need to know that decisions we're making in Congress are about the interests of the American people, not potential personal benefits.

— Andy Kim

It is not for the State Department or even the Secretary of State to say when and how the resources of the American people…

— Mike Pence

Congress is not an ATM.

— Robert Byrd

That's what a Congressman or a Senator is for -- to see that too much money don't accumulate in the national Treasury.

— Will Rogers

The larger point is this: We've invested over half a billion dollars in New York since this department was stood up. We've given New…

— Michael Chertoff

The problem is not that you can buy a congressman for $10000 but that you can buy a Washington lawyer for $100000.

— Nicholas Johnson

It is not true that Congress spends money like a drunken sailor. Drunken sailors spend their own money. Congress spends our money.

— Arthur Laffer