Congress Quotes
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Does he [the president] possess the power of making war? That power is exclusively vested in Congress. . . . It is the exclusive province of Congress to change a state of peace into a state of war. (Quote by - William Paterson)
While many members of Congress have some reservations, members of Congress by and large have decided this is the right thing to do at the right time. But now he must take this to the public. (Quote by - Martin Frost)
This is about the right of the Congress to oversee the executive branch, the right of the GAO to assist Congress, .. Our concern is that never before have we had a situation where an administration has refused to provide this kind of information, whether it be a Democratic or Republican administration. (Quote by - David Walker)
Since this is constitutional it does not impinge on the powers of Congress. Congress, however, must observe its own rules in the power of inquiry in aid of legislation while the rights of the witnesses should be respected. (Quote by - Ismael Khan)
Every man in it is a great man, an orator, a critic, a statesman; and therefore every man upon every question must show his oratory, his criticism, and his political abilities. (Quote by - John Adams)
Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing, after all. (Quote by - Eugene Field)
Until last year, Congress was just a club; we are trying to make it more serious and more influential for the student body. We are looking to reform our committees to make ourselves more respected and more advertised. We are trying to become more visible in the community as well as make Congress more visible on campus though we know we still have a long way to go. (Quote by - Pat Doherty)
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
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. (Quote by - Barber B. Conable, Jr.)
In foreign affairs, the president can do what he wants unless Congress says no. In domestic policy, the president can't do anything unless Congress says yes. (Quote by - James Lindsay)
We intend to take that judgment of liability, and seek to apply it to every single person who was damaged because of the flooding of the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet. We are off to Congress to get Congress and the White House to agree to a Katrina Victims Compensation Fund. (Quote by - Pierce O'Donnell)
Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line. (Quote by - Andy Grove)
Obviously they're getting a lot of flak from Congress and the Europeans as well. It was going to happen at some point anyway. It probably happened sooner than it would have if Congress and the administration hadn't said anything. (Quote by - Jay Bryson)
Our focus is on continuing to work with Congress to move forward on this issue. The lines of communication are open. There are members who have concerns. We believe it's important to work with Congress to address those concerns, and find a way forward. (Quote by - Scott McClellan)
This is the cost of Congress letting oil companies write public policy. The oil and gas royalty holiday is one of the most egregious giveaways of taxpayer money in our history and it can and should be stopped. This program is not justified, period. But it is even more outrageous coming at a time when Congress is cutting food stamps, home heating assistance and college loans for poor and middle class families. You just cannot justify giving away $7 billion in tax dollars to oil companies recording the largest profits ever in corporate history. (Quote by - George Miller)
Too many members of Congress are too involved in grabbing what they can for their states or districts without enough emphasis on overall fiscal restraint for the sake of the nation as a whole. We need a new era of fiscal sanity. I am not willing to subject my children and grandchildren to the level of debt that Congress has created. (Quote by - John Ensign)
We're in a situation now akin to how people feel about Congress; you may hate Congress in general, but you love your congressman. And with all the skepticism and doubt out there, there's still a lot of evidence that we .. are still trusted by a great number of people. (Quote by - David Boardman)
Do you pray for the Senators, Dr. Hale? someone asked the chaplain. "No, I look at the Senators and pray for the country.". (Quote by - Edward Everett Hale)
It's hard for the White House to regain momentum if the Congress is in disarray. It ties up the Republicans in Congress and limits their ability to execute any White House agenda. (Quote by - Cal Jillson)
I think Chairman Davis has said he would always prefer that baseball strengthens its own policies and not leave it to Congress to legislate. In the absence of any action, he believes Congress is ready to move forward. (Quote by - Robert White)
It seems to me that at this time, the Congress has to own up to its responsibilities. Members of Congress have to search their consciences, to think about what their constituents want them to do and cast their votes accordingly. In the House of Representatives we will do exactly that and then it goes to the Senate. I am sure the Senate will do that as well. (Quote by - Bob Livingston)
I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America! (Quote by - Harry S. Truman)
We thank those Senators, both Republican and Democrat, who stood firm against tremendous pressure from the Bush administration, pro-drilling members of Congress and their allies in the oil industry. They recognize that the budget is an inappropriate place to decide controversial national policy matters like America's energy policy. We urge all members of Congress to remain steadfast in their belief that the vast, unspoiled wilderness of America?s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is more than a line item in the Federal Budget. (Quote by - Carl Pope)
One of the challenges of any second-term administration is you always lose a certain amount of identification with the Congress, because everybody in the Congress in the first term knows you'll be out there in the next campaign with them, .. Your motives are always a little more suspect when you don't have to face the voters again. (Quote by - Roy Blunt)
We've got to put Congress on the hot seat. Congress gave George Bush the authority and money to wage this war. Now they have to hold him accountable. (Quote by - Bill Dobbs)
Congress is going to hear from student loan professionals at the school because they're the closest to the fight. Certainly members of Congress will listen to them, but the folks they will listen to the most are students who are Perkins Loans borrowers. (Quote by - Bruce Caplin)
The administration welcomes the review, .. It's important. We always work together with Congress on dealing with the threat of Iraqi possession of WMD and we will continue to work with Congress on the facts that led previous administrations, Democrats, Republicans alike, to know that he had WMD. (Quote by - Ari Fleischer)
There are no more excuses. It is time to cut mercury pollution and protect Americans' health. Mercury is the last major toxic substance without an emissions control plan. For years Congress and the special interests have kicked the ball down the field. This report brings us to the goal line, and Congress needs to act in the public's interest and to stop doing the bidding of the special interests. (Quote by - Patrick Leahy)
We had a candid dialogue, .. If Congress, because of what's going on in some other sports, thinks we need to do more, then we'll work with Congress. (Quote by - Gary Bettman)
This is not an example of a president repealing a provision of a law that Congress has enacted .. but exercising a discretionary authority that Congress has given him. (Quote by - Seth Waxman)
Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment. (Quote by - William J. Brennan, Jr. )
The enormous cost of this proposal will only hasten Medicare's insolvency, and we'll have to rely on future Congresses to have the political courage that this Congress lacks. (Quote by - Jeff Flake)
We believe, however, the additional time and investigation at the request of the company will provide Congress with a better understanding of the facts, and that Congress will be comfortable with the transaction moving forward once it does. (Quote by - Scott McClellan)
Congress did not pass last year's 2006 budget proposals. The 2007 budget proposals are very similar, and once again unfairly target agriculture. I expect Congress to reject them again. (Quote by - Saxby Chambliss)
It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels. (Quote by - Jon Corzine)
This is a good nomination in the sense that it could heal some of the wounds that may have developed over the past few years between the White House and Congress. It was necessary to get somebody who works well with Congress in order to get any fiscal restraint. But he does have his work cut out for him. (Quote by - Stephen Slivinski)
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
We welcome discussions with members of Congress on the CFIUS process. We'll be talking with members of Congress about their ideas. (Quote by - Maria Tamburri)
The 105th Congress was a small-business friendly Congress, .. Small business had some key legislative victories because these lawmakers understand how important small business is to the economy. (Quote by - Jack Faris)
I think the American people were saying we do not want to have further investigation. We want to close this off. They clearly made a separation between the personal conduct .. They want Congress to wrap it up, get it behind them, so we can get on to the issues that the president has been working with Congress. (Quote by - Roy Romer)
It is quite possible that Wal-Mart could, at some point, follow a similar course by simply opening a thousand bank branches in its stores and then challenging Congress to close them down. We think Wal-Mart will do this and that Congress will back down. (Quote by - Richard Bove)
I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision. (Quote by - Barber B. Conable, Jr.)
Wilderness preservation is one area of environmental progress where Congress could write a surprisingly impressive record of accomplishment in 2006. In state after state, ordinary citizens inspired by these successes are working hard to encourage Congress to complete action on other pending wilderness proposals. (Quote by - Mike Matz)
Thomas Jefferson explained, Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated. .. If Congress can determine what constitutes the general welfare and can appropriate money for its advancement, where is the limitation to carrying into execution whatever can be effected by money?. (Quote by - William Drayton)
ESA-related costs are paid in an inequitable way. Although Congress determined in 1973 that the preservation of endangered species was in the interest of the U.S. as a whole, Congress did not arrange for the nation as a whole to bear the costs of recovery. Instead, these costs are largely borne by the private landowners on whose property rare species are found, regardless of the ability of any particular landowner to bear these costs. (Quote by - Peyton Knight)
Our interest is to see that Congress is fully briefed. We believe that the more information they have, the more supportive Congress will be. (Quote by - Scott McClellan)
What the Congress and the companies are able to work out, we'll support and cooperate with so long as it does not involve a summary decision by the Congress that blocks this transaction. (Quote by - Stephen Hadley)
The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team. (Quote by - Cal Thomas)
NASA appreciates the efforts of Congress to resolve restrictions placed on our partnership with Russia. Congress' action helps to ensure the continuous presence of U.S. astronauts on the International Space Station. (Quote by - Michael Griffin)
At least one chamber of Congress has finally made a statement that it is not acceptable to hurt or kill transgender people because of who we are. This is a pivotal vote for transgender people who have been working diligently for years to educate Congress about transgender people and our lives. (Quote by - Mara Keisling)
The Republicans I've been talking to have said, 'Oh, the public is cynical about indictments, they happen so often.' Well, that's whistling past the graveyard, because the average voter is only going to remember that one of the big Republican head honchos in Congress was indicted. They won't remember the name or position, but they'll remember it says Congress is corrupt and maybe the majority party is corrupt. (Quote by - Larry Sabato)
Not withstanding our differences, Mrs. Albright is a lady who understands Congress, she understands the important role that Congress must play in developing U.S. foreign policy. However, my support for the nominee should in no way be misconstrued as an endorsement of the [Clinton] administration's conduct of foreign policy. (Quote by - Jesse Helms)
Funding for the major recommendations will go to Congress in the Defense budget on Monday and Congress will have its say on them. (Quote by - Steve Kosiak)
We have been working to repeal this law for the past eight years. We are lobbying Congress, but Congress has not been that responsive to student demands. We [will] take it to court and get rid of the law that way. (Quote by - Tom Angell)
This proposal will have little impact on the deficit, .. If Congress is serious, we should put together a deficit reduction package that freezes COLAs government-wide, including Congress. (Quote by - Kit Bond)
Members of Congress do this; staff members of Congress do it; it is their responsibility to do so. (Quote by - Don Fowler)
Don't try to go too fast. Learn your job. Don't ever talk until you know what you're talking about.... If you want to get along, go along. (Quote by - Sam Rayburn)
As the Baby Boomers get older, they're going where it's warmer. It's not a matter of if (Minnesota loses a seat in Congress), it's a matter of when. It would be nice to dodge the bullet one more time, but eventually we're going to lose a seat in Congress. (Quote by - Dean Barkley)
The Supreme Court's basic take is that when Congress has said something specific, the president's authority to take action beyond that is at its lowest ebb. This would seem to be right up against that wall. Congress has acted. The president seems to be circumventing it. And that raises an enormous constitutional question. (Quote by - Deborah Pearlstein)
We will spend less money next year than we did two years ago -- not very much less, .. The administration, having lowered the bar, got more of what it wanted out of Congress. At the end, the administration was holding the whip hand because it was Congress that wanted to go home. (Quote by - Carol Cox)
It's a very volatile and unstable debate. There are a variety of voices all calling for action. And it's looking increasingly likely that Congress will address it – but the what Congress does is far from certain. (Quote by - Frank Sharry)
It's not a priority for the government right now. You don't see the Congress or the president talking about public safety is number one, as we think it should be, and a lot of the things we need to do really to prevent another 9/11 just simply aren't being done by the president or by the Congress. (Quote by - Thomas Kean)
There are some members who would honestly feel that Congress should be running the student loan program, and others think Congress should take advantage of the private sector. (Quote by - Kevin Bruns)
Now Congress has always exercised the power of the purse with respect to activities of that sort and regulated the funding for that type of activity. And that's, of course, always been the core of Congress' authority. (Quote by - John Roberts)
Members of Congress are irate about the Court's denigrating and, really, disrespectful statements about Congress' competence, .. method of reasoning. (Quote by - Arlen Specter)
Bureaucracy has murdered people in the greater New Orleans area. And bureaucracy needs to stand trial before Congress today. So I'm asking Congress, please investigate this now. Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency and give me a better idiot. Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don't give me the same idiot. (Quote by - Aaron Broussard)
The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision rejected Congress' findings and its method of reasoning, .. Is there any real justification for the court's denigrating Congress' 'method of reasoning'?. (Quote by - Arlen Specter)
We're continuing to work closely with Congress. We recognize that some members have concerns. The lines of communication are open. There are a lot of conversations going on between the company and Congress and the administration. (Quote by - Scott McClellan)
Saddam Hussein has invited members from the U.S. Congress to visit Iraq. Man how stupid is Hussein? If you think Bush had incentive to bomb Iraq before, imagine if Congress was over there. (Quote by - Jay Leno)
I cannot commit this Congress and future Congresses to a program that is undefined. (Quote by - John Walsh)
I've been astounded by Bush in his relationship with Republicans in Congress. In my lifetime, there has been no Republican president who has spent as much effort and as much time electing people of his own party to the Congress, or less time talking to them after they got there. (Quote by - David Keene)
Congress must not withhold incentives to rebuild from any employer that provides good jobs and tax revenue, if we want to revive the economy of this region, .. Contrary to the biased view of some, the gaming industry must be treated as fairly and equally as any other business when Congress develops legislation to help the Gulf Coast region rebuild. (Quote by - Shelley Berkley)
For better or for worse, Congress reacts to the behavior of people. While Congress has been willing to listen to our group, representing parents, students continue to go to college in record numbers and parents, despite some grousing, continue to pay. (Quote by - Jim Boyle)
Should Congress grant video providers the extraordinary regulatory relief represented by national broadband video franchises -- turning nearly 40 years of local control of video services on its head -- Congress must also ensure net neutrality. Such a policy would ensure that those same companies make their broadband networks available to all applications, content and service providers on a nondiscriminatory basis. (Quote by - Gigi Sohn)
The locals have to make the case the levees might not hold up, and that case was not made to Congress, .. Congress is not going to give money that is not justified. (Quote by - Orrin Hatch)
The country and the Congress were misled into war. I regret that we were not given the truth; as I said more than a year ago, knowing what we know now, I would not have gone to war in Iraq. And knowing now the full measure of the Bush Administration's duplicity and incompetence, I doubt there are many members of Congress who would give them the authority they abused so badly. I know I would not. (Quote by - Senator John Kerry)
You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!(Quote by - Henry Brooks Adams)
The unwillingness of the administration to be honest about this secret program to spy on Americans demands that Congress get the facts, not just administration rhetoric. The truth can be determined without compromising national security. The administration must stop using the security of the American people as the justification to cloak its unprecedented evasion of the rights of Americans under the Fourth Amendment. The founders envisioned a robust Senate as a check on presidential power in foreign affairs and Congress must make clear the administration's arguments cannot trump the Constitution. (Quote by - Lisa Graves)
I can assure you that if any of these meetings are set up, we hope the members of Congress will show up. There's often an issue where people go up to the Hill to brief, and very few members of Congress even show up. (Quote by - Ari Fleischer)
A republican stands up in congress and says 'I GOT A REALLY BAD IDEA!!' and the democrat stands up after him and says 'AND I CAN MAKE IT SHITTIER!!'(Quote by - Lewis Black)
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. (Quote by - Henry Brooks Adams)
It is the utmost necessity that this congress be a congress of unity. (Quote by - Slobodan Milosevic)
From the president's point-of-view, it simply remains too important an issue for Congress not to get the job done and complete. The president believes that there are too many in America who are unemployed, and too many people who risk being unemployed if Congress doesn't take action. (Quote by - Ari Fleischer)
Let me be clear, the Congress will be writing the next farm bill in 2007, and I am deeply concerned the administration is using the current negotiations to reshape farm policy without the full input of Congress and grassroots support. (Quote by - Mike Johanns)
We go now to the Congress in 45-50 days and then it will be by decision of the Congress .. To give FIFA the authority to intervene in case of non-application. (Quote by - Sepp Blatter)
On Capitol Hill Congress runs by an internal clock: Legislative days are not counted the way calendar days are, and the seasons are marked not by the earth's orbit but by whether Congress is in session or out. (Quote by - Richard Corrigan)
The president remains very concerned about the potential for a jobless recovery. And this is why he calls on Congress to act as quickly as Congress can to pass a job-creating initiative that stimulates the economy and provides greater growth not only for this year, but into the future. (Quote by - Ari Fleischer)
This is something that we've briefed members of Congress on over the course of the last several years. We will continue to brief members of Congress about this vital program. (Quote by - Scott McClellan)
It's the increasingly partisan rancor that characterizes the Congress. The very partisan Republican orientation of the House is not very well received. The public wants compromises to be reached and they generally don't see many of those things taking place in Congress these days. (Quote by - Mark DiCamillo)
In Congress, this one clearly crosses party lines. The bottom line is this will not come out of Congress the way it came in. (Quote by - Daryl Kimball)
When a member of Congress comes to a (forum), they don?t come .just to listen. You give members of Congress the ability to be heard. (Quote by - John Grasser)
The congress's tasks are to review the implementation of the resolutions of the 9th party congress and decide orientations and missions for developing the country in the coming time. (Quote by - Nong Duc Manh)
The writing is on the wall and it is now clear that the Congress is on its way out. (Party president) Sonia Gandhi's charisma could not prevent the Congress from getting drowned. (Quote by - Syed Shahnawaz Hussain)
If you begin to look at the full ramifications of this, we are talking about billions and billions of dollars. Congress simply passed an unfunded mandate. Every motorist in America is going to pay the price of this, of the Congress' failure to do a serious exploration of the cost, the complexity, of the difficulty. (Quote by - Barry Steinhardt)
Congress usually puts aside every budget from the President and will write their own. We will be working with our Congressional delegation as Congress writes their budget, so farmers shouldn't get too worked up until we get to the budget writing committees. This is the first step in a long process. (Quote by - Bill Bruins)
Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal. (Quote by - Donald Rumsfeld)
Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can. (Quote by - S. L. Clemens)
Heath Shuler didn't only play football in Tennessee. He used his name to start a business in Tennessee. Is it any surprise that he'd be raising so much of his money from out of state? Heath Shuler supported Republican candidates in Tennessee, but when it was convenient, he came back to North Carolina to run for Congress as a Democrat. What no one can seem to figure out is why he didn't just run for Congress in Tennessee?. (Quote by - Jonathan Collegio)
I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour. (Quote by - Hubert H. Humphrey)
Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens--and then everybody disagrees. (Quote by - Boris Marshalov)
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too. (Quote by - Lichty and Wagner)
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. (Quote by - Al Gore)
In the wiretapping, despite all the momentum for a more assertive Congress, you're seeing Congress backing down, because there are many Republicans and even Democrats who are afraid of being seen as preventing the president from protecting the nation. (Quote by - Julian Zelizer)
The ultimate solution is public financing of campaigns. All this is based on the constant quest for campaign cash that members of Congress are always on. If you get rid of that, members of Congress will be much less susceptible. (Quote by - Mary Boyle)
It's a funny thing. When the Democrats are in the majority, the Democrats run Congress. When the Republicans are in the majority, the Democrats still run Congress. How does that work?. (Quote by - John Hinderaker)
Some people say it will take another miracle for this Congress and administration to find a way to work together. As we begin this historic Congress, let us resolve that we will work in good faith with each other to do the people's business. That is our pledge from this side of the aisle. (Quote by - Tom Daschle)
At the very least, the freedom that Congress is empowered to secure includes the freedom to buy whatever a white man can buy, the right to live wherever a white man can live. If Congress cannot say that being a freeman means at least this much, then the 13th Amendment made a promise it cannot keep. (Quote by - Potter Stewart)
