Quotes About Congress

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.

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

Congress still preserved its constitutionally mandated power of the purse.

In Lucas's opinion, a good part of the Congress seemed to suffer from the same psychological defects that afflicted Taryn Grant—or that Taryn Grant enjoyed, depending on your point of view. Their bloated self-importance, their disregard of anything but their own goals, their preoccupation with power . . .

Consider the blundering anarchic system of the United States the stupidity of some of its lawmakers, the violent reaction, the slowness of its ability to change. Twenty-five key men destroyed could make the Soviet Union stagger, but we could lose our congress, our president, and our general staff and nothing much would have happened. We would go right on. In fact we might be better for it.

As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education.

Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.

If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

Quoting Thomas Jefferson's Letter to the Danbury Baptists, the Court stated that the First Amendment requires "'that the legislative powers of the government reach actions only, and not opinions.'" Thus, "Congress was deprived of all legislative power over mere opinion, but was left free to reach actions which were in violation of social duties or subversive of good order.

Congress also kicked around a constitutional amendment in 2004, the Marriage Protection Amendment (MPA) (formerly known as the Federal Marriage Amendment), which would have banned all gay marriages in the United States.18 It is a classic example of elected representatives using religion and religion only to justify a law. Representative

We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about.

The Congress ran off and left everything just as I expected they would do and now they are trying to blame me because they did nothing. I just don't believe people can be fooled that easily.

Congress is headed in the wrong direction with this bill which removes any and all incentives from the food industry to improve their products for children.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people.

I don't think the only place to fight for freedom is in the halls of Congress.

Congress is furious at the Secret Service for consorting with hookers, which has traditionally been Congress's role.

And the thing about my jokes is, they don't hurt anybody. You can take 'em or leave 'em - you can say they're funny or they're terrible or they're good, or whatever, but you can just pass 'em by. But with Congress, every time they make a joke, it's a law! And every time they make a law, it's a joke!

There are men of character in the U.S. Congress, both House and Senate. There are women of character, too. But the evidence for "character" needs to be something other than the iteration of the word itself.

Congress routinely exempted itself from the laws it imposed on the citizens, much as the ruling parties in Russia and China do. Consequently, the five hundred thirty-five members of Congress could freely and legally trade stocks on inside information whereas the other three hundred million Americans could not. Frank disagreed with the law, but it was still the law.

If Congress asked a question, Henry was prepared to give an honest answer. That's probably why legislators never asked.

As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education.

Nunes's once-promising career in Congress had been given over fully to being a house organ for Trump.

Just six days after Congress declared peace, he submitted a detailed blueprint for a standing peacetime army, including the recommendation for a United States Military Academy at West Point.