Congress Quotes

"The salary of a member of Congress ends the day that he of she leaves office"

"With respect to the northeastern boundary of the United States, no official correspondence between this Government and that of Great Britain has passed since that communicated to Congress toward the close of their last session"

Martin Van Buren, President

"Every proper exertion has been made and will be continued to carry out the wishes of Congress in relation to the tobacco trade, as indicated in the several resolutions of the House of Representatives and the legislation of the two branches"

Martin Van Buren, President

"I believe it is incumbent upon Congress to act aggressively to ameliorate fear and help our country take the essential steps that will make our communities and lives safer"

Paul Gillmor, Politician

"The lack of health care coverage has remained very important to me during my time in Congress and as a member of the House Subcommittee on Health, I am working hard with my colleagues to correct these inequalities"

Paul Gillmor, Politician

"Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?"

Robert Byrd, Politician

"I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times of hope. Of despair and of achievement. I have seen our government at its best, but today I fear that we see our government at its worst"

Robert Byrd, Politician

"Congress is not an ATM"

Robert Byrd, Politician

"Community-based policing has now come to mean everything. It's a slogan. It has come to mean so many different things that people who endorse it, such as the Congress of the United States, do not know what they are talking about"

James Q. Wilson, Politician

"I am a very lucky guy. I can testify before Congress. I can raise funds. I can raise awareness"

Christopher Reeve, Actor

"The retirement system that is in place for members of Congress and other federal workers features what is known as the Federal Employment Retirement Plan"

Virgil Goode, Politician

"As I have been saying for more than a year now, turning this vital mission over to the Iraqi people as soon as possible should remain a topic of debate for Congress while relying on our military commanders to set up the timetable"

Howard Coble, Politician

"Liberals in Congress have spent the past three decades pandering to environmental extremists. The policies they have put in place are in large part responsible for the energy crunch we are seeing today. We have not built a refinery in this country for 30 years"

Marsha Blackburn, Politician

"Finally, the House is working to require a comprehensive federal review of IRS regulations with a follow-up report to Congress on possible actions to reduce the tax paperwork burden imposed on small businesses"

Michael K. Simpson, Politician

"I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan"

Everett Dirksen, Politician

"Medicare debates in Congress should result in better Medicare benefits for all our nation's seniors. We're not asking for special treatment for rural America, just a fair deal"

Bennie Thompson, Politician

"In Congress, I am a strong supporter of the New Apollo Energy Act. This plan would help to establish our energy independence, create jobs, and provide cleaner, reliable, and more affordable energy"

Allyson Schwartz, Politician

"After 20 years in Congress, I still believe that smaller government and lower taxes are the most effective economic policies"

Howard Coble, Politician

"All too often in tough economic times, it is the environment that gets left on the cutting room floors of Congress as everyone scraps for limited federal dollars"

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Politician

"It is with great disappointment that I call on Representative Anthony Weiner to resign. The behavior he has exhibited is indefensible and Representative Weiner's continued service in Congress is untenable"

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Politician

"I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there"

Birch Bayh, Politician

"You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in"

Arundhati Roy, Novelist

"The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes"

Arundhati Roy, Novelist

"I think many people were surprised by the victory of the Congress, because it was really hard to see beyond the sort of haze of hatred that the Hindu nationalists had been spreading"

Arundhati Roy, Novelist

"I submit to you, Mr. President of Congress, my formal resignation as president of the republic"

Alberto Fujimori, Statesman

"There have been high crimes and misdemeanors, but they have been committed by the special prosecutor and the Congress, not the president"

Donella Meadows, Environmentalist

"With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high"

Thomas E. Mann, Sociologist

"Congress requires states to draw single-member districts"

Thomas E. Mann, Sociologist

"I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent and indecent searching out of the private lives and the past political beliefs of individuals"

Wendell Willkie, Lawyer

"As parties began to develop around the turn of the 19th century, you had party nominees for President nominated in caucuses made up of party members in Congress"

Michael Beschloss, Historian

"More coming out about Saddam Hussein. We now know he takes Viagra and he has as many as six mistresses. No wonder Congress is reluctant to take action against this guy - he's one of their own"

Jay Leno, Comedian

"The president has undermined trust. No longer will the members of Congress be entitled to accept his veracity. Caveat emptor has become the word. Every member of Congress is on his or her own to determine the truth"

Bob Graham, Politician

"Why shouldn't future generations and young Americans have the choice to earn a higher rate of return? Why shouldn't they be able to own their own Social Security so that Congress can't spend it on other things?"

Ken Mehlman, Politician

"As a regent, I hope to bring that important perspective of a typical family visitor in combination with my background as a Member of Congress and a proponent of the Smithsonian's efforts to reach all Americans"

Xavier Becerra, Politician

"I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress"

Geraldine Ferraro, Politician

"We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign donors of powerful members of Congress"

Nick Lampson, Politician

"Congress has changed the Social Security system over time, and over 20 times in the past Congress has raised taxes on Social Security in payroll taxes into the system"

Chris Chocola, Politician

"More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them"

Dan Lipinski, Politician

"What practical conclusions may we now draw for our propaganda work among women? The task of this Party Congress must not be to issue detailed practical suggestions, but to draw up general directions for the proletarian women's movement"

Clara Zetkin, Politician

"The truth is the Republican leadership has created a credit card Congress that is recklessly selling out the future of America, our children and our grandchildren, and President Bush is the most fiscally irresponsible President in the history of America"

Dennis Cardoza, Politician

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