Quotes About Congress

After Congress ministries resigned across the land, the parties led by Jinnah, Ambedkar and Ramasami jointly observed 22 December 1939 as Deliverance Day.

Jinnah was not tempted. 'India is not a nation', he commented. 'It is a subcontinent composed of nationalities.' More than willing to fight the Congress, henceforth, he would fight even more the notion of one India and seek allies in that fight.

A work of statesmanship that will affect India and Indian history for many a long year. It is nothing less than the pulling back of 62 millions of people (India's Muslim population at the time) from joining the ranks of the seditious opposition (the Congress).

The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.

Members of Congress are like the voters in one respect -- they want to go with the winners.

When an opposition member taunted Nehru with regard to his remark that Aksai Chin was barren land, with no grass growing on it, a Congress MP added this telling supplement: 'No hair grows on my head. Does it mean that the head has no value?' This was widely viewed as a dig at Nehru who, of course, was completely bald himself.59

The All-India Congress Committee had once elected representatives from the states, these in turn sent up by Congress bodies at the taluk and district levels. More significantly, the chief ministers of Congress-ruled states were chosen by the local legislators alone. However, after the Congress split in 1969, Mrs Gandhi was able to place her own candidates in key positions.

(c)(p) NOTHING IS HOPEFUL ABOUT SYSTEMIC RACISM, WHITE SUPREMACY, VIGILANTISM,HYPOCRISY AND INJUSTICE IN AMERICA OR ANYPLACE ON THE PLANET. THESE EVILS WILL NOT GO AWAY ANYTIME SOON, AND THE POLITICIANS AND PEOPLES WHO PROMOTE THEM IN CONGRESS AND SPEAK ABOUT MURDERING THOSE THEY HATE WILL SEE THEIR JUST ENDS.

By the end of the year, however, Washington suddenly reversed this decision. In his general orders of December 30 he announced this: "As the General is informed, that Numbers of Free Negroes are desirous of inlisting, he gives leave to the recruiting Officers, to entertain them, and promises to lay the matter before the Congress, who he doubts not will approve of it.

On January 16, 1776, Congress reluctantly resolved "that the free negroes who have served faithfully in the army at Cambridge, may be re-inlisted therein, but no others."154 During the course of 1776 all northern states issued some sort of restrictions on the recruitment of African American soldiers.

I did one cable news hit during my first 10 months in Congress.

Let's establish that no one in Washington actually cares about balancing the budget.

We need a Congress that cares more about doing the people's business than their own.

Why should DMK align with Congress after blaming the Congress of taking revenge on it for the 2G scam, which caused the exchequer a loss of Rs 1.76 lakh crore. Why should Congress take revenge? Does that mean the Congress did not get its due share from the DMK?

Modi made history in 2014 by becoming the first non-Congress government at the Centre to get absolute majority.

The Congress wants to ensure that it has the number to stay in power at the Centre.

It would be fine with me to have myself worked out of a job, but I'm not sure that - I'm not sure that there will be a champion movement in Congress to do that.

Adam Clayton Powell Jr. was a very savvy character. His drinking and carousing, his charisma and intelligence... the things he did in Congress. He passed for white, then became a black advocate.

The last time I checked, the president was supposed to sit down and figure out what he wanted and then get Congress to go along with it.

I don't cherish the idea of having to raise children in this political atmosphere, and so, you know, I definitely want to at some point to get out of congress, come back home, you know, continue to run successful businesses.

There are no ideas in the Republican Party right now in the Congress. They're the party of no. They desperately need some intellectual leadership. And whatever you think of Newt Gingrich, he can supply intellectual leadership. So I hope he does run.

If Congress wanted to intervene with the Federal Reserve, well, we created the Federal Reserve. We could uncreate it. But would you want Congress regulating the money supply? We'd have drowned in inflation, or gone bankrupt, decades ago.

Supply chain infrastructure, rural broadband, and beginning negotiations for the 2023 Farm Bill are among our chief priorities in the 117th Congress.

I have long said that America needs to have a self-sufficient pharmaceutical supply chain to ensure we have safe and accessible access to our medications, and I am proud to be taking action on this issue as a Member of Congress.