Congress Quotes (2111 Quotes)

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...

Passage of a flat tax is a necessary predicate to my retiring from Congress, ... As my Democratic colleagues have come to understand that, their willingness to co-sponsor my bill has definitely gone up.

I had hoped to hear the President tonight tell the Congress and the American people exactly how he plans to tackle some of the important issues facing this country, unfortunately I did not.

We have to ask ourselves ... how could things have been different ... What could have been done to prevent the magnitude of this tragedy These are questions that Congress should legitimately ask.

If this bill passes, this Congress is saying that the court system of Florida will lose its long jurisdiction of history in this matter and others like it, and the jurisdiction of the federal court will be substituted,

The Voting Rights Act, whose 40th anniversary we celebrate this month, has helped minorities elect 81 sitting members of Congress and thousands of local officials. But the rally civil rights groups held in Atlanta earlier this month to push for extension of the act's key temporary provisions downplayed those gains and instead pushed wild claims that some state laws requiring an ID to vote are the functional equivalent of Jim Crow poll taxes,

Following his brief inaugural address to the Congress, President George Washington and his party walked over to St. Pauls Church for divine services. His prayer that afternoon was 'Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that Thou wilt incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another and for their fellow-citizens of the United States at large.'

Last year, Congress overwhelmingly called on President Bush to make 2006 a year of significant transition to full Iraqi sovereignty. The domestic public relations campaign waged by the White House and the new round of presidential speeches does not advance that goal.

It has too much power to disappear overnight. It will still keep the governorship of 19 states and a substantial presence in Congress.

deferred to Congress, the executive and to legal precedent - in some unspecified mix.

It is a regrettable fact of life, but it is a fact of life that everything is done in the Congress at 1159 if there is a 12 o'clock curfew.

Bush, Congress, the mayor each of them are symptoms of a bigger problem, that we don't have accountability for disasters or challenges of this scale, ... That's all the public wants in trying times accountability.

In my 31 years in Congress, I have seen a lot of changes. We made some substantial policy changes that have improved our parks system and our public lands.

which are critical to ensuring strong support in Congress.

Congress in session is Congress on public exhibition, whilst Congress in its committee-rooms is Congress at work

There's been a renewal of corruption. I think all of these things have lowered America's faith and approval of the Congress and politics in general.

People in Congress need to apologize. We're growing the government at a pace that makes the Democrats look thrifty.

I'm sure they will be reviewing their portfolios. Most of them are in dollar-denominated assets. They'll want to see how vulnerable it is to the U. S. Congress. It'll be more difficult to finalize an investment proposal that involves an American bank or an American asset.

(I support efforts) to limit the terms of the members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate

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.

It's good to see the players' union moving in the right direction. But it remains to be seen whether this is good enough for members of Congress.

Congress hadn't planned on providing funds to resolve all the scientific uncertainties this year, ... But if we don't want to see a repeat of this disaster, the restorations we thought might take decades must now be completed in years.

We pride ourselves on operating legally. Now the Interior Department is claiming it has the power to cancel royalty relief granted by Congress.

that will ensure that the Congress and the people get an honest budget request.

Well, I mean, Congress did originally set the formula for the state grants, and they guaranteed every state a minimum formula. So that was a congressional decision.

I don't think this one is going to go away. Members of Congress know they are going to face this issue in November.

If Congress were able to act, there would be much less activity in the state legislatures.

If Congress does not address the exports problem, company simply will pocket tax breaks. Any actual increase in production occurring in the U.S. will likely to find its way out of the county and prices will continue to climb.

At a minimum his conduct has been curious. At the worst, it's been very, very suspicious. As a lawyer, I know that could mean absolutely nothing. However, as a a member of Congress and one who respects this body and institution and has affection for my friend, I'm deeply concerned.

We're half the people; we should be half the Congress.

So his choices are he can do nothing and sort of fudge it -- but you can't get away with that. The public and Congress are going to want something done. ... I've said this about Bud, and I think I'm right, his first instinct is always wrong. The second is almost always right.

It's a man bites dog story when longtime adversaries come together to lobby Members of Congress to support a bill.

This is a Congress that is much more interested in investigating than legislating,

This drug coverage program was clearly designed by Republicans in Congress to serve the interests of the drug and insurance industries. America's seniors were an afterthought.

The climate in Congress has certainly changed.

It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the back of his mind, a congress of all those who have taught him and whom he has admired; they constitute his ideal audience and his better self.

You have parties going on all the time. You have members, when they are thrown in their honor in effect hosting their own huge expensive events, and you have corporations and special interests picking up the tab and getting the favoritism and the relationship with the members of Congress as a result.

If he were accepted by Congress, his ability to speak clearly will diminish over time.

When this is all over, this will be bigger than any (government scandal) in the last 50 years, both in the amount of people involved and the breadth to it. It will include high-ranking members of Congress and executive branch officials.

It's pretty unusual for Congress to revisit something passed by a prior Congress.

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

Everybody loves their congressman and hates Congress. You sort of evaluate your own personal situation by standards that you know, but when you're evaluating everybody else, you do it by what you hear.

I think part of the message that is being sent to members of Congress and both political parties is that people are organized and they're paying attention.

Morris talks a good game about the problem, but when push comes to shove, he and his company stonewall any effort in Congress to require mandatory global warming pollution limits.

We have rights, as individuals, to give as much of our own money as we please to charity but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of public money. (Colonel David

I think President Obama is trying to deceive the public in pretending that he was not a part of Congress that has made some decisions in the past that got us to where we are today.

They're passing bills they know the president's going to veto. They're interested in confrontation. They have no interest in trying to really solve the problems this country faces. This is a do-nothing Congress.

It's aimed at a revival of Congress fortunes in north India, where minorities, especially Muslims, form an important vote bank.

I think we will win the Congress.

cleanup drive in Washington, to break the grip of the permanent corporate government that makes good people in the Congress not fulfill their own potential.