Congress Quote by Terri Sewell

Don't count on Congress. Laws come into being because people on the ground demand it.

— Terri Sewell

Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.

— Clarence Darrow

I don't want to talk politics, but what I do say is I believe in rules and laws, and if you come to this…

— Mo Farah

Congress has repeatedly passed laws and otherwise raised a ruckus about indecent language on the broadcast airwaves used for radio and television.

— Reed Hundt

Whenever we have had a need for a national security or public safety issue, Congress has always followed the recommendations of the White House,…

— Jim Sensenbrenner

Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.

— Janet Frame

Written laws are formulas in which we endeavor to express as concisely as possible that which, under such or such determined circumstances, natural justice…

— Victor Cousin

But in this Congress, accountability is just a catch phrase, usually directed elsewhere. Demands to personal responsibility or corporate accountability abound, but rarely congressional…

— Melissa Bean

With control of the universe at stake, a crash program is imperative.We produced the A-bomb, under the huge Manhattan Project, in an amazingly short…

— Donald Keyhoe

Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is…

— James A. Garfield

For states' rights advocates, the Constitution is like a contract that is openly violated by one party with impunity. On paper, the states remain…

— Jonathan Turley

The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who…

— Gerry Spence