Agendas Quote by Ron Fournier

“This isn’t a partisan thing—constitutionalists left and right have equal reason to worry over the lost constraint on the executive. Republicans and Democrats alike…

— Rachel Maddow

The president's claim that Social Security is going broke is misleading at best. The sky is not falling, although there is no doubt that…

— Grace Napolitano

A concrete agenda and landslide victory might not even guarantee a president his mandate in a capital as polarized as Washington.

— Ron Fournier

My background before I got to Congress is in constitutional law.

— Mike Johnson

Congress has the constitutional responsibility to control the power of the 'purse'.

— Ryan Zinke

Congress has a constitutional right to help decide and limit how the country uses its military power. But to assert this right, the legislature…

— Tom Malinowski

We have to remind the people: Congress has the constitutional obligation and public responsibility to oversee these issues and the Department of Justice's operations.

— Sibel Edmonds

If I were in Congress in 1996, I would have voted for the Defense of Marriage Act, which used Congress's constitutional authority to define…

— Ron Paul

I know well the coequal role of the Congress in our constitutional process. I love the House of Representatives. I revere the traditions of…

— Gerald R. Ford

“It was a twenty, but instead of Andrew Jackson on the face, I saw Grover Cleveland,”

— Stephen King

“On Andrew Jackson: "His native strength compelled every man to be his tool that came within his reach; and the more cunning the individual…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Thus, in that inevitable taking of sides which comes from selection and emphasis in history, I prefer to try to tell the story of…

— Howard Zinn

The president was not the most important political player in the 19th century. Besides Jefferson at the beginning, Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln, the…

— H. W. Brands

“Grant had overwhelmingly won the electoral vote, and had garnered the largest popular majority of the century, nearly 56 percent of the vote, the…

— Ron Chernow