Quotes About Congress

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens then everybody disagrees.

As Bob Dole found out, you can't keep a positive image while being your party's mouthpiece in Congress. That's why no legislative leader since James Madison has ever been elected president.

Congress must take responsibility for a new positive direction - an innovative agenda that will lead to a more secure America. Secure communities, secure economies, and a secure quality of life.

Congress is a middle-aged, middle-class, white male power structure ... no wonder it's been so totally unresponsive to the needs of this country.

The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.

To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to definition.

The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythicals beans into it, then reaches in and tries to pull real ones out.

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

There is good news from Washington today. Congress is deadlocked and can't act.

We have the best Congress money can buy.

The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

Congress didn't vote on the bills, they just wave at them as they go by.

In those years from 1893 to 1896, Congress was thrown into turmoil by the demand for "the free coinage of silver at sixteen to one" when the commercial ratio was about thirty to one.

The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power in the Federal Constitution or in an act of Congress passed in pursuance thereof. There is no undefined residuum of power which he can exercise because it seems to him to be in the public interest.

This editorial appeared in The New York Times on June 14, 1940, to mark Flag Day, a holiday that seems to have fallen into neglect in more recent years. Flag Day commemorates the day in 1777 when the Continental Congress adopted the Stars and Stripes as the official flag of the United States.

Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.

Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to his materials.

The fights I fought... cost a lot --the fight for the assault-weapons ban cost 20 members their seats in Congress. The NRA is the reason the Republicans control the House.

You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

there are just 435 members of the House of Representatives and 100 in the Senate for almost three hundred million people.

We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.

It was nonsense to talk about its being a sacrifice to come there; for if it were, they would not see so many grasping to be members of Congress.