Behavior Quote by Nancy Pelosi

Everybody complains about pork, but members of Congress keep spending because voters do not throw them out of office for doing so. The rotten…

— Ron Paul

“The people in one district can choose not to reelect their member of Congress, but that will not change the composition of the government…

— Milton Friedman

Tell the truth, because sooner or later the public will find out anyway. And if the public doesn't like what you are doing, change…

— Ivy Lee

I thought I could make change by just working at ground level, but to change a community, you have to change policies.

— Aja Brown

The only way really to influence countries, in terms of poverty, is to get them to change their policies and get them to understand…

— James Wolfensohn

I was ranked the fifth most bipartisan freshman when I went to Congress, and I think that my motto really is, 'Agree where you…

— Jacky Rosen

As president of Common Cause, I joined a coalition of groups ranging from the Christian Coalition to Consumers Union, and we went to Congress…

— Chellie Pingree

I was in charge of price controls in World War II and had a ceiling on overall prices. Everybody who was subject to general…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Back in the mid-1980s, congressional hearings were held after we brought this litigation, and held up the first experiment. At that time, I went…

— Jeremy Rifkin

We have two parties who are basically hijacking our country for their corporate paymasters. And if we focus on 535 members of Congress, that's…

— Ralph Nader

The Emoluments section shares with the Constitution. That's not a law that Congress could change or the president could ignore.

— Chuck Todd

Does he [the president] possess the power of making war? That power is exclusively vested in Congress. . . . It is the exclusive…

— William Paterson

We've got a tax code that is encouraging flight of jobs and outsourcing. And that's why we've specifically recommended ... that Congress change our…

— Barack Obama

There is no debate in the scientific community...We need [Congress] to change things, not to deny what's happening.

— Bill Nye

I ran in 2006 as an opponent of the Iraq War, and I came to Congress to change overreliance on U.S. military power.

— Chris Murphy