Quotes About Congress

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

Making Congress into a less crisis-driven institution starts with electing members of Congress who can take the long view.

I use the lessons my father taught me every day. And I believe the simple value of integrity matters, even in a complicated place like Congress.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

De acordo com os congressistas, ouvir as experiências reais de mulheres vítimas de violência era diferente de ler as estatísticas de violência contra mulheres. A peça tornou as experiências mais reais e tangíveis, estimulando-os a tomar uma atitude urgente a respeito do que tinham ouvido.

I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.

Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.

ley es para tranquilizarles la conciencia a los del Congreso, que creen que están trabajando;

Uma "ditadura" não precisa envolver um ditador efetivo. Tudo o que era necessário, dizia Bastiat, eram "as leis", promulgadas por um Congresso ou um Parlamento, que produzissem o mesmo efeito: conformidade forçada.

I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.

I've thought about it, not a lot, but I thought my relationship with Congress - the Democrats and Republicans - would help me get some things done. Not everything, but at least they'd be willing to try.

As Congress continues to debate ways to address illegal immigration, we must remember the many hard-working legal immigrants that contribute so much to our nation's economy and culture.

The president has undermined trust. No longer will the members of Congress be entitled to accept his veracity. Caveat emptor has become the word. Every member of Congress is on his or her own to determine the truth.

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

if Congress wanted to do something which would assist in ridding the South of the race question and making friends between the two races, it should, in every proper way, encourage the material and intellectual growth of both races.

The only criticism any one has any business making against Congress is that it's too good for some of the men we send there. Congress is our great virtue, understand; the congressmen are our fault.

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

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

Our Founding Fathers created the Executive Branch to implement and enforce the laws written by Congress, and vested this power in the president.

It's not written in the Constitution or anything else.... Congress, just out of the clear blue sky, said the airwaves belong to the people, which means, in essence, that it belongs to Congress.

See, Indira Gandhi was wrong in declaring the Emergency. She tried to put me in jail, but she could not. People voted her back, and I worked with her after that. Even though I was not a member of the Congress, she sought my help on China. You can't have personal vendetta, you see.

Historically, the Justice Department has been Congress' ally in fighting wrongdoing in government, but under this Justice Department and Eric Holder, rather than being the people's attorney, Eric Holder sees himself as the president's attorney and he'll do anything to defend the president.

We've got to stand up at some point and say, 'We are not gonna pay slavery reparations in the United States Congress.' That war's been fought. That was over a century ago. That debt was paid for in blood, and it was paid for in the blood of a lot of Yankees, especially. And there's no reparations for the blood that paid for the sin of slavery.

I'm more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yankees or Giants.