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Congress Quotes

Don't count on Congress. Laws come into being because people on the ground demand it.

People Congress Ground Count Laws

In 1981, I spoke at the Olympic Congress. I was scandalised that I was the first athlete to be given that chance. But I made the most of it.

Chance Congress Athlete First Made

I have been a lot of 'firsts' on the national political stage, including the first African American congressman from the Bay Area and one of the first Democratic Socialists in Congress.

American Political Congress First

How many times will this Congress waste time on an issue that a majority of Americans do not want?

Time Congress Want Will Waste Time

There are issues the EPA should be dealing with. When I talk about the EPA and its role with the states, it's not an abolitionist view, that we don't need that agency. It's that the agency should act within the outlines established by Congress.

View Congress Talk Need Within Act

With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.

Leadership Faith Congress Lost Norm

When I was sworn in the Marine Corps in 1964, when I was sworn into Congress, I swore to uphold the Constitution against enemies, both foreign and domestic. We have a lot of domestic enemies of - of the Constitution, those who want to pervert it, those who want to change it.

Change Constitution Congress Want

I think the speaker of the House in Congress should be like the Massachusetts speaker: all-powerful. He should appoint committee chairmen and remove them if they stray from the party line. He should be answerable only to the caucus, which can remove him at any time. I'd throw the seniority system out on its ear in Congress.

Thomas P. O'Neill

Time Think House Party Congress Out

It is irresponsible for this Congress to not investigate the President's lack of an exit strategy, and the fraud, waste, and abuse of U.S. tax dollars.

Strategy Congress Tax Fraud Exit

I helped lead the effort to defeat communism in the Congress.

Effort Communism Defeat Congress

If you want to pray at a town hall meeting or a school board meeting or in the halls of Congress, that ought to be acceptable in the United States.

School You Meeting Congress Want

Whether Congress decides to block GMO labeling is about more than the right to know what we're buying and eating. It's also about consumer confusion.

Eating Congress Know Right Confusion

We have to get rid of the constant fundraising that happens inside the Congress. Before, political parties used to raise money; now, individual members are raising money through the DCCC and the RCCC. It is absolutely corrupt.

Money Political Congress Now Inside

As soon as something really bad happens, I guarantee you Congress will act. I absolutely guarantee you Congress will act. But the question is, should we wait for that?

Wait You Bad Congress Will Question

Redistricting and a broken, polarized Congress have made it tough to be a moderate in Congress.

Broken Tough Congress Made Moderate

Serving my neighbors in Congress and fighting for them has been the best job I've ever had.

Best Job Fighting Congress Neighbors

The tax relief that this Congress has given now in terms of four tax cuts has overwhelmingly gone to the people at the very top of the income scale in America.

People America Congress Tax Now Top

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

Congress Run Minnesota Here Been

Maybe the Jefferson case will give members of Congress second thoughts the next time they get ready to legislate away the rights of ordinary Americans.

Time Thoughts Ready Congress Will

Finally, we need more Border Patrol agents. Although Congress has already tripled the number of Border Patrol agents since the late 1980s, more are still needed.

Border Late Congress More Need

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

Result Congress Kind Here Going

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

War Constitution Congress Force Only

The cost of living is not solved in Congress and Munich - the cost of living is solved here: in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Netanya and Haifa.

Congress Living Cost Jerusalem Here

I think it's time... that we reform Congress to the point where all public assistance comes in one single committee. One area where all public assistance can be located, and it will be easy to see all the duplications, all the waste, so much easier to see areas where fraud is running rampant.

Time Think Easy Congress Will Fraud

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