Quotes About Congress

Next time a man tells you talk is cheap, ask him if he knows how much a session of Congress costs.

Intelligence is playing a more important role in policymaker decisions than I think I've ever seen in my time in Congress or before.

In the wake of this disaster, the people of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida should know that the United States Congress stands ready to help them in their time of need,.

For the first time ever, a black Republican woman has been elected to Congress. President Obama told her, 'You are all set. This country never turns against a black anything.'

Obama acknowledges his overreach openly every time he argues that he intends to do the job of an obstinate Republican congress.

I guess the optimistic thing is that those people in Congress who are climate deniers, I think their time has run out.

I served with General Washington in die Legislature of Virginia...and...with Doctor Franklin in Congress. I never heard neither of them speak ten minutes at a time, nor to any but the main point.

$100,000 donors buy access to Congress and the White House. We believe it's long past time to clean up Washington.

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

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line, unless, of course, you are congress.

Did you ever hear of a congress of lawyers for simplifying the law and discouraging litigation? What

It's August, which means Congress is on recess and Mitch McConnell has shimmied back into the ocean to seek a mate.

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.

It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels.

If "con" is the opposite of pro, then isn't Congress the opposite of progress? Or did we just fucking blow your mind?!?

Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves…. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, December 1, 1862

Even as the struggle between President Andrew Johnson and Congress reached its climax, the United States acquired Alaska, one part of an imperial agenda long advocated by Secretary of State William H. Seward. Under President Grant, the government attempted to annex the Dominican Republic.

Congress quickly increased the number of Supreme Court Justices from seven to nine, enabling Grant to nominate two new members of the Court. The plan to pack the Court with Republican justices had worked.

Congress should ban advertising that preys upon children, it should stop subsidizing dead-end jobs, it should pass tougher food safety laws, it should protect American workers from serious harm, it should fight against dangerous concentrations of economic power.

Merging the SEC and CFTC was a political nonstarter because they were overseen by separate committees in Congress. The

Merging the SEC and CFTC was a political nonstarter because they were overseen by separate committees in Congress. The congressional oversight committees jealously guarded their turf because the market players regulated by the two agencies could be counted on to provide lucrative campaign contributions.

That's why I often said that monetary policy was not a panacea—we needed Congress to do its part. After

Congress opted for budget cuts and tax increases.

In retrospect I wonder whether I should have insisted earlier and more vigorously on persuading Congress to accept capital injections.