Congress Quotes

"The timing was terrible, and having one disaster after another didn't help. I think the pictures on television of the way in which the disaster was handled also helped to turn off the public and Congress"

Billy Tauzin, Politician

"The time is now for Congress to address health care in America"

John Conyers, Politician

"Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority"

Barber B. Conable, Jr.

"Freedom of religion is a principle that is central to our Nation's Declaration of Independence. Congress has taken this positive step to protect our freedom to express allegiance to America's flag and the ideals it represents"

Ron Lewis, Politician

"But people ought to be proud to be Democrats right now. You know, we're a happy warrior party. And this Congress has every reason to be very, very proud of the heavy lifting that they have done"

Tim Kaine, Politician

"If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it"

David Horowitz, Writer

"The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left"

Robert Bork, Public Servant

"How it is that within 60 days of a general election issue, groups can no longer tell voters that a Member of Congress votes pro-abortion, against guns, against the environment or whatever else is beyond me"

Paul Weyrich, Critic

"Today the people from my State of Tennessee would listen to this debate, or even talk about a reference to God on our money or in the Halls of Congress or in our Pledge and say, please, let common sense and logic win the day and prevail versus legal mumbo jumbo"

Zach Wamp, Politician

"If Americans want to see results instead of rhetoric, if taxpayers would like solutions instead of sound bites, and hard work instead of horse trading, I suggest you take a short look, and it won't take much longer, at the accomplishments of this Congress"

Alcee Hastings, Politician

"However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community"

Randy Neugebauer, Politician

"There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry"

Rita Dove, Poet

"Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions"

Sam Rayburn, Politician

"Many hard comments have been made on my efforts in India from the side of the Congress party, yet I feel content in the deep conviction that the offer I traveled 22,000 miles to discuss with Indian leaders was a real contribution to a solution of our differences"

Stafford Cripps, Politician

"Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes"

Charley Reese, Writer

"As Members of Congress and people of conscience, we must work to overcome the indifference and distortions of history, and ensure that future generations know what happened"

Jerry Costello, Politician

"It's time Congress got its priorities straight"

Mitch McConnell, Politician

"I was in the Minnesota state Senate from 2000 until 2006. In 2006, I was urged to run for Congress, I did. And I've been here ever since"

Michele Bachmann, Politician

"Congress has greatly tightened the loopholes terrorists can use to harm Americans. We need to do more. We need controls immediately on what forms of ID are adequate to board planes and enter secure sites"

Elton Gallegly, Politician

"It is not secret here in Congress we have not had the discipline in many instances to keep our hands out of the cookie jar of Social Security. Now to stop this I propose that in the future that Congress cannot get its hands on the money in the first place"

Jeff Miller, Politician

"Border security is a complex issue and will remain a top priority during the 2007 legislative year. As Congress works to fix this problem, I will continue to push for strong measures that beef up security at our borders"

Randy Neugebauer, Politician

"We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does; and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about"

Margaret Spellings, Public Servant

"The president and Republicans in Congress have repeatedly promised to revisit Social Security privatization after November. But Americans have already said, loud and clear, that they don't want Social Security to be privatized or dismantled"

Jim Clyburn, Politician

"During my first term in Congress, I signed a pledge that I will take no more earmarks and I've been faithful to that pledge"

Michele Bachmann, Politician

"I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans"

Tom Allen, Politician

"What standards are upheld by the scientific community affect the community internally, and also affect its relations with society at large, including Congress"

Serge Lang, Mathematician

"The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress"

Mitch McConnell, Politician

"Not a single time have we gotten a right from Congress or from the President. We get them from God"

Glenn Beck, Journalist

"Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress"

Daniel Ellsberg, Celebrity

"So our focus has to be on the things that we can control, which is to take the necessary measures working with Congress to ensure that our economy grows, that we create jobs"

Jay Carney, Public Servant

"I found that there is very little interest in Washington for true election reform. That neither the White House nor either house of the Congress seems to be as committed to guaranteeing democratic participation in this country as we seem to be in other countries"

DeForest Soaries, Politician

"Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill"

Norm Dicks, Politician

"It is time for Congress to provide relief for tobacco farmers. Since the 1930's tobacco production has been regulated by a quota system, which required farmers to purchase quota in order to grow tobacco"

Allen Boyd, Politician

"Though no one wants war, Congress needed to give the President the authority he needs to protect America while encouraging the use of diplomacy and negotiations to try and arrive at a peaceful solution to this problem"

Allen Boyd, Politician

"The Pentagon today will not allow any of these people who work for the Pentagon, to talk to the media. They have gagged them from talking to members of Congress"

Curt Weldon, Politician

"There were speeches made in Congress in the very last session before the outbreak of the Rebellion, so ferocious as to show that their authors were under the influence of a real frenzy"

Edward Everett, Statesman

"All we're getting from the Democratic majority in Congress and from this White House is more bailouts, more spending, more planned stimulus, more deficits and debt, and the American people have had it"

Mike Pence, Politician

"When Congress passed the Help America Vote Act in 2002, I was thrilled to learn that the federal government would offer resources to all states to assist them in enhancing the voting process in America"

DeForest Soaries, Politician

"The White House doesn't create jobs. The government together - White House, Congress - creates policies that allow for greater job creation"

Jay Carney, Public Servant

"A majority of Americans oppose partial-birth abortion, and Judge Hamilton's decision flies in the face of Congress passing and President Bush signing legislation banning such horrible acts of violence"

Marc Racicot, Politician

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