Quotes About Congress

Memo to Congress: America's problem is not that government is too small. It's the spending, stupid!

The Federal Reserve and Congress have systematically taught the American people to trust the government and that caution in spending is harmful to the economy.

The Republican Congress is like a groundhog afraid of its shadow when a government shutdown is talked about.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

The President and the Congress are all very well in their way. They can say what they think they think, but it rests with the Supreme Court to decide what they have really thought.

Congress has an obligation to clear the legal fog by passing my bill to require the federal government to obtain a warrant if it wants to conduct aerial surveillance.

We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.

My top three priorities for my first term in Congress are growing our economy; providing for quality, affordable health care; and keeping our nation and communities safe.

When I ran for Congress I promised to help make health care affordable again.

[Write to your congressional representative against the health care reform proposal or] we will awake to find that we have socialism.

Yes, I do agree we need health care reform; however, this bill badly misses the mark. Congress can and must do better for the American people.

People like Congress more than their health insurance companies.

I'm Going To Make Available To Every American The Same Health Care Plan That Senators And Congressmen Give Themselves.

The American people in Congress have got to ask themselves a very simple question. Why are we the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people as a right?

Americans want to have what members of Congress have: guaranteed health coverage.

In Congress, I am a strong supporter of the New Apollo Energy Act. This plan would help to establish our energy independence, create jobs, and provide cleaner, reliable, and more affordable energy.

Congress can grant a waiver [for General James Mattis ] and has done that once in history.

President Bush will go down in history as the torture president. He has now defied a majority of Congress to allow the use of interrogation techniques that any reasonable observer would call torture.

You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip.

Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.

Congress is my ideological home; I come from a Nehruvian family.

The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.

Serving in Congress has been the honor of a lifetime.

My golf-loving friend Bob Hope asked me what my handicap was, so I told him - the Congress.