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Congress Quotes

I'm just going to let my record in Congress speak for itself.

Speak Congress Going Just Record

When they write my epitaph, it's going to say, 'Innate Immunotherapeutics, saving millions of lives.' It's not going to be 'member of Congress.'

Congress Say Write Going Member

If immigration reform was easy, Congress would have dealt with it 15 years ago.

Immigration Easy Congress Years

We cannot go up on a wire. We cannot do a search without a judge on the FISA Court approving it and determining that we have met the standard that has been set forth by Congress in order to utilize these techniques.

Search Judge Congress Go Without Up

Since I joined Congress, I've been shocked at how many times we were forced to vote on 1,000-plus-page bills without ample time to read or review what was in the final legislation. It's no wonder Congress doesn't enact good policy.

Good Time Wonder Congress Vote

We should go forward in courts and Congress with investigations into post-9/11 interrogations and the decisions leading to them.

Christine Pelosi

Forward Decisions Congress Go Should

The president was not the most important political player in the 19th century. Besides Jefferson at the beginning, Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln, the center of politics was Congress.

Politics Beginning Political Congress

Despite broad public support, raising the minimum wage is always difficult owing to the disproportionate influence that wealthy firms and donors have in Congress.

Support Influence Congress Difficult

Thousands of members of Congress have come and gone over the years, their individual achievements hidden in committee reports, private compromises, amendments pushed through or blocked, and innumerable, unnoticed meetings.

Meetings Congress Hidden Over Gone

I've been invited to appear on Letterman, but they wanted me to talk about a funny videotape of Congress. 'Bring us your outtakes!' That's not our job.

Funny Job Me Congress Talk Bring

Imagine a libertarian president challenging Congress for meaningful immigration reform.

Immigration Congress President Reform

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

Jeannette Rankin

People Congress Half Should

In addition to advocating for smart policies that best serve our heroes, it is also my role as a Member of Congress to advocate for our veterans when working with federal agencies.

Best Smart Congress Veterans Heroes

Being a farmer is a great qualification to have to serve in the United States Congress.

Great Farmer Congress United Serve

It was not until the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s that Congress got serious about the assignment laid out in the post-Civil War amendments.

War Congress Serious Movement Out

My literal responsibility as director of the CIA with regard to covert action was to inform the Congress - not to seek their approval; to inform.

Responsibility Action Congress Seek

I continued to serve in Congress until 2001.

Congress Serve Until

Most of us complain about Congress. We say it's a place that doesn't reflect us; they don't listen to us. Actually, Congress well reflects the American people. It gives us exactly what we ask for.

People American Place Congress Say

Nearly 75,000 Demand Progress members have urged Congress to fix the Patriot Act.

Progress Congress Patriot Fix Act

Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation.

Pain Conversation Congress Go Beyond

In theory, it is illegal to make the basement into a bureaucratic purgatory. In 1994, for instance, Congress prohibited agencies from making significant changes in a whistleblower's 'working conditions' as punishment for speaking out.

David Fahrenthold

Congress Punishment Changes Out

Sometimes running for Congress is a four-year strategy in terms of getting out there and building a network.

Building Strategy Congress Sometimes

We have a lot of talented people in this Congress, and we can avoid a lot of unintended consequences if we just included them.

People Consequences Congress Just

I ran for Congress not because I was having a mid-life crisis. I left the private sector because I saw a looming financial crisis that was coming to this country. It's unsustainable.

Financial Country Congress Crisis

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