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Congress Quotes

I was sent there by the Free Congress Committee, headed by Paul Weyrich. Fred Smith and I were sent down as observers, with reporters' credentials, so we could witness the events.

Free Down Congress Events Committee

Making Congress into a less crisis-driven institution starts with electing members of Congress who can take the long view.

Raja Krishnamoorthi

View Long Congress Take Institution

The framers of our constitution had the sagacity to vest in Congress all implied powers: that is, powers necessary and proper to carry into effect all the delegated powers wherever vested.

John C. Calhoun

Constitution Congress Carry Wherever

There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.

Congress Selfishness President More

The need for a permanent status resolution approved by Congress is made even more clear to me because of my experience as a former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.

Dick Thornburgh

Experience Me Resolution Congress

As far as the Congress is concerned, we condemn any attempts to oppress the Dalits in strongest terms. If there are parties trying to fan the OBC-Dalit divide in Tamil Nadu, we need to collectively condemn them.

Trying Congress Need Divide Far Fan

Congress created Fannie Mae in 1938 and Freddie Mac in 1970. For many years, these institutions prudently pursued their core mission of enhancing the availability of credit for housing.

Credit Mission Congress Housing Core

The atmosphere is different in Congress after September 11. Terrorism is no longer an abstract issue, but a real, tangible threat.

Congress Terrorism Real Abstract

Don't divide the world into 'them' and 'us.' Avoid infatuation with or resentment of the press, the Congress, rivals, or opponents. Accept them as facts. They have their jobs and you have yours.

Donald Rumsfeld

World Facts You Congress Accept Us

As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.

Reflection View Country Congress See

Congress passed the deeply flawed Patriot Act and authorized the invasion of Iraq. It even gave its retroactive approval to warrantless wiretapping.

Andrew Rosenthal

Congress Patriot Act Approval Even

Long before, and fully independent of, anything Congress did, President Obama made clear that he was going to preserve the indefinite detention system at Guantanamo even once he closed the camp. President Obama fully embraced indefinite detention - the defining injustice of Guantanamo - as his own policy.

Glenn Greenwald

Long Injustice Congress Independent

As I stated shortly after retiring from the U.S. Army and first pursuing a seat in Congress in 2010, I planned to self-impose term limits.

Limits Army Congress First Planned

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about the ratings of Congress. I really don't.

Time Thinking Congress Ratings Spend

Congress never loses its capacity to disappoint you.

You Congress Never Capacity Loses

On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.

Men Congress Philadelphia First

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Business Congress Manufacturing Sales

If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.

Change America Congress United Must

If I get to be president, what can I do anyway? With Congress and the press, what chance do I have to make basic changes?

Chance Congress President Changes

The reason given by the President in asking Congress to declare war against Germany is that the German government has declared certain war zones, within which, by the use of submarines, she sinks, without notice, American ships and destroys American lives.

George William Norris

Government War American Congress She

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

Doing Congress Said President First

I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.

Ian Somerhalder

Love Speak Congress Never Office Us

President Obama thinks he can use emotion to bring pressure on Congress. But that's not how adults with power respond to things.

Power Pressure Congress Emotion He

I have voted against only one of President Obama's nominees: Michael Froman, a Citigroup alumnus who is currently storming the halls of Congress as U.S. Trade Representative pushing trade deals that threaten to undermine financial regulation, workers' rights, and environmental protections.

Elizabeth Warren

Environmental Financial Congress

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