Quotes About Congress

I was proud to be an original cosponsor of the Violence Against Women Act when Congress passed it in 1994, and was proud to support the previous renewals in 2000 and 2005. These bills always enjoyed large, bipartisan support.

Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress.

To help inform my work in Congress, I consistently need to gather information about the healthcare challenges facing Central Virginia patients, providers, and local officials on the ground.

With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high.

The Congress is virtually incapable of passing any reforms unless they first get permission from the powerful special interests who are most affected by the proposal.

Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed the mantle, even while lacking two ingredients of an electoral mandate: a landslide victory and a specific agenda.

While Congress repeatedly finds plenty of time to vote on resolutions of condemnation over border security, they've done virtually nothing to actually solve the problem.

Congress should pass legislation that mandates increased information sharing for any country that wants to participate in the Visa Waiver Program.

Some residents, I suspect, may be politically motivated in suggesting that having two members of Congress lessens Montclair's clout. Quite to the contrary. I think it increases Montclair's visibility - as a matter of fact, Essex County's visibility.

My vision for the future always centers around our children - it always centers around our children. So anytime anybody asks me what are the three most important issues facing the Congress, I always say the same thing: 'Our children, our children, our children.'

And whether it is equal pay, health care, Social Security, or family leave, this Congress has refused to address issues critical to hard-working American women.

Americans are thinking, there are some good members of Congress but we can't figure out what they are good for. Others are thinking, how did these morons make it through the birth canal."

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

The person who represents a Lobby in Congress is never the one who makes the real decisions; the real leaders are rarely identifiable and are never held responsible for their actions. If a puppet gets in trouble they sacrifice him and haul out another.

I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.

But I am bold to say there is not a fact nor a reason stated in it, which had not been frequently urged in Congress. The temper and wishes of the people supplied every thing at that time; and the phrases, suitable for an emigrant from Newgate, or one who had chiefly associated with such company, such as, "The Royal Brute of England," "The blood upon his soul," and a few others of equal delicacy, had as much weight with the people as his arguments.

En mis muchos años, he llegado a la conclusión que un hombre inútil es una lástima, dos son una firma legal, y tres o más son un congreso

Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.

I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us.

I think the dignity of Congress and the dignity of the country demands something more than merely censure here.

As constituents, we've become lazy in terms of what we want and how to get it. If we, as a constituency, don't like what Congress is doing, but 90 percent of incumbents get reelected every year, that's a problem.

A lot of people think I'm crazy, you know, leaving a Democratic supermajority state to go to the superminority in Congress.

Citizens know the legacy of misrule of the Congress - an economy in doldrums and an administration full of leakages.

If you can't legislate, you can't deal with problems.