Congress Quotes

"The voters in my district, and around the country, have demanded that Congress get a hold on the influx of illegal immigrants and tighten the security around our borders"

John Linder, Politician

"Because the Bush Administration will set no timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, both chambers of Congress acted to make sure our troops will not be left in Iraq indefinitely"

Jan Schakowsky, Politician

"If Congress doesn't raise taxes, you cannot get a private investment account without forgoing a portion, possibly all, of your guaranteed benefit check"

Grace Napolitano, Politician

"Well, as a former small businessperson - I understand what's going on, I think in the business community. And businesspeople around the country are looking at all the spending and all the debt. They're looking at all the policies coming out of this Congress and this administration the last two years, and they - it's created all this uncertainty"

John Boehner, Politician

"Now Congress learns that the Veterans Administration failed to provide complete, accurate information on the money it needs for both this year and next year"

Doc Hastings, Politician

"I had taken on the color of the climate around me and had driven back all the emotion that rose from the Brooklyn streets so that I could belong to the exclusive club of Congress"

Emanuel Celler, Politician

"I continued to serve in Congress until 2001"

David Minge, Politician

"Increased and better screening for explosives is necessary - and Congress should fund it and TSA should implement it as quickly as possible - however that screening doesn't reduce the risk posed by a trained terrorist with an unconventional weapon"

Dave Reichert, Politician

"Since President Bush took office in 2001, this Congress has supported an agenda of democracy, freedom and expansion of rights for all peoples throughout the world"

Ginny B. Waite

"In early January I introduced my legislation, which, besides prohibiting Federal funding of human cloning, also expresses the sense of Congress that foreign nations should establish total prohibition on human cloning as well"

Cliff Stearns, Politician

"If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as well as voting power in Congress"

Dick Thornburgh, Politician

"As fighting in Iraq intensifies, President Bush delivered his supplemental war budget to Congress. The money will cover 30 days of fighting, then we'll be sent one war every other month until we cancel our subscription"

Craig Kilborn, Entertainer

"People have tremendous power, more than the average person understands, and certainly more than even I understood before I came to Congress. When any of my constituents writes me a letter, I promise you, we're listening"

Charlie Norwood, Politician

"I came to Congress to help reduce spending"

Dave Reichert, Politician

"I mean, look, Nancy Pelosi said in the very beginning this is going to be the most open, honest and ethical Congress in history. And what we're seeing is she's breaking that promise every day"

Eric Cantor, Politician

"The political status legislation which emerged in Congress in 1990 and 1991 did not receive the support needed for enactment into law during my tenure as Attorney General"

Dick Thornburgh, Politician

"Internal self-government under a local constitution was authorized by Congress and approved by the residents in 1952, but federal law is supreme in Puerto Rico and residents do not have voting representation in the Congress"

Dick Thornburgh, Politician

"Apparently tired of waiting for clear direction from Congress, the people of Puerto Rico have used the tools provided by their own local constitution to schedule a vote for Dec. 13 on the status of the island"

Dick Thornburgh, Politician

"I would like to see this group in this Congress be starting the process to get ourselves on long term fiscal strong footing"

Ben Quayle, Politician

"Health care for all Americans is the most pressing domestic issue today. It's far past time for the President and Congress to deliver health care to everyone"

Russ Feingold, Politician

"I received orders from Congress to proceed to Charleston in South Carolina, for the purpose of Co'operating with General Lincoln in the defense of that Capitol"

Abraham Whipple, Soldier

"Serving in Congress has been the honor of a lifetime"

Bob Ehrlich, Politician

"Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it"

Cullen Hightower, Writer

"Many of us in Congress have been calling on the Administration to articulate a bold mission for NASA. It seems that the President is answering that call. I wholeheartedly support his vision for going back to the moon, and from there to worlds beyond"

Sheila Jackson Lee, Politician

"All elections revolve around and are often resolved by who raises the most money. That's unfair. I'd like to see that process changed, but it seems once you win and get to Congress, that doesn't happen"

John Murray

"We're novices. We have friends now who are part of the freshman class who in some cases have run for Congress two and three times before they won their seat"

Max Burns, Politician

"There's not an appropriations bill in the last 10 years that the-that Democrats passed in the Congress. We haven't spent any money of your taxes in the last decade"

Chaka Fattah, Politician

"I would rather be known as 'Jim Kolbe, the trade expert in Congress who happens to be gay,' rather than 'Jim Kolbe, gay congressman from Arizona.'"

Jim Kolbe, Politician

"The one thing that I have been struck with, after coming here to Congress is, how many people in Washington, D.C. talk about job loss like they are talking about the weather, or a natural disaster like an earthquake"

Stephen F. Lynch, Politician

"Nearly one in ten Americans are still out of work. And still, the President and Congress are focused on ramming through their health-care bill, whatever it takes, whatever the cost"

Scott Brown, Politician

"What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?"

Marion Barry, Politician

"When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play"

Mac Thornberry, Politician

"The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress"

Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Journalist

"I really think the Patriot Act violates our Constitution. It was, it is, an illegal act. The Congress, the Senate and the president cannot change the Constitution"

Peter Camejo, Businessman

"I ran for Congress, just once"

Shirley Temple, Actress

"To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing"

Christine Todd Whitman, Politician

"We're committed to working with Congress to doing what the president said he was always going to do, which is cut the deficit in half over the - over his first term"

Christina Romer, Economist

"Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars"

Carrie P. Meek, Politician

"I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress"

Peter Stone, Writer

"So I will stand more steadfastly for the things I stand up for, like people who work for a living. I'd like to be able to stand that way when I go to Congress"

John Murray

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