Quotes About Congress

I want to dig in before I finish with a career here in Congress - be known as someone who was a really serious legislator, who had really good ideas and was willing to work across the aisle to get broad consensus to solve some of these problems the country is facing.

We need more leaders in Congress who are willing to bring people together to solve problems and protect the American Dream for all hardworking Kentuckians.

The Middle East is literally going up in flames, as is California, and Katrina's problems haven't been solved, and Congress' response is to criticize Federal judges.

The cost of living is not solved in Congress and Munich - the cost of living is solved here: in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Netanya and Haifa.

The problem was so widespread that in 1793 Congress passed the first Fugitive Slave Act.

Congress is a place that lacks any debate of ideas.

Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.

If becoming a member of Congress is like going to college, then crafting legislation is our homework.

I am proud to be a member of the Congress of the United States.

Hey, well, I've been a pretty conservative member of congress.

I was ranked the second most conservative member in the House.

It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.

You can't be the perfect member of Congress and the perfect mother 100 percent of the time. And probably, you'd be a pretty annoying person if you were.

If I only had 12 years left to live, I'd want to live it as a member of Congress because that was the 12 longest years of my life.

Now I get a very nice salary as a member of Congress, but when I'm in Washington, I sleep in my office.

Every member in Congress has a seat, and they deserve a seat at the table.

Seldom does a member of either party have to be called down for inappropriate behavior on the House floor.

Every member of Congress has highways in their district.

As a Democratic member of Congress, I have a vote at the Democratic National Convention as a superdelegate.

I was the first Latino member of Congress to support Senator Obama's candidacy. For quite a while, I was the only one.

Obviously no one wants to give members of Congress a lot of money, because they barely do anything, and many of them are terrible, but a Congress that is made up of rich-but-not-super-rich people is going to be more corruptible than a Congress of really rich people.

One of the first members of Congress I met when I was first elected in 2008 was Barney Frank.

I put myself and all the members of Congress in the same boat of things that could have been done better.

We have some Jewish members of Congress, not a lot but there's a bunch of us.