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Quotes About Congress

On behalf of every Republican and every Democrat in Congress, on behalf of the whole House, I want our friends in the Jewish community to know that we stand with them.
~ Paul Ryan
Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
~ Val Kilmer
That's one of the major lessons: no president should ever take this nation to war without full public debate in the Congress and/or in the public.
~ Robert McNamara
This country of ours has committed the most serious act of aggression in its history by engaging in a war of aggression without a declaration of war by Congress.
~ Ramsey Clark
Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.
~ Gore Vidal
Most people do not realize that there was a paid chaplain in Congress even before the Revolutionary War ended.
~ Francis Schaeffer
It's awfully hard to convey a sense of credibility to allies when you [the Congress] voted for the war and then you declared: Wrong war, wrong place, wrong time.
~ Dick Cheney
The Congress doesn't have the leadership. What exactly is Rahul Gandhi doing is the question... sometimes he says something good, at times he makes a mess.
~ Uddhav Thackeray
We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does; and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about.
~ Margaret Spellings
I think that Congress and its affiliates and journalists who support them have made trolling quite a sophisticated measure of intervention.
~ Smriti Irani
I received orders from Congress to proceed to Charleston in South Carolina, for the purpose of Co'operating with General Lincoln in the defense of that Capitol.
~ Abraham Whipple
I hope to continue to be serving South Dakota in Congress.
~ Stephanie Herseth
Amtrak is extremely important to the economy of Southern Illinois and I will continue to work with state and local leaders and my colleagues in Congress to secure the necessary funding to maintain full service.
~ Jerry Costello
Illegal immigration presents a huge problem. That is why I decided to spend a week along the southern border to see firsthand how bad the problem is and, more importantly, what Congress can do to fix it.
~ Ric Keller
I was elected six times to represent southern Arizona, in the State Legislature and then in Congress.
~ Gabrielle Giffords
Obviously, overall infrastructure needs on the Southwest and Northern borders are mounting. We need a major push in Congress to remedy this.
~ Pete Domenici
The use of military force against a sovereign nation is an act of war. Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution explicitly grants Congress the sole power to declare war.
~ Scott Garrett
Agencies and the executive branch need to enforce the law. They don't need to fill in the spaces if Congress doesn't act.
~ Scott Pruitt
As of ten minutes ago, when he was sworn in by Albert Tyler in the President's Room with the leadership of both houses of Congress as witnesses, that's what he is." Busby was staggered by the audacity of this maneuver by the Old Guard. "But how could something like this happen just like that, with no warning, out of the blue?" "Because we have a Constitution which delivers us from evil
~ Charles McCarry
moratorium on all nuclear testing—was delayed for more than a decade. It only came to be in 1996, during the Clinton administration. Though the president signed the treaty, Democrats had since lost control of Congress, and the Republican Senate refused to ratify it. As a result, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty remains in legal limbo unto this day.
~ Charles Seife
It's almost as if Congress has no idea that a giant occult power struggle for control of the US government is in progress Ã¢â'¬Â¦ or perhaps it's over already, and a ruthless media clamp-down by tongue-eating mind control parasites is the only thing keeping the world from learning about the takeover of DC by gibbering alien nightmares.
~ Charles Stross
If you're not going to have consequences to a bad decision or to mislead Congress or any other aspect of life, that only incubates people to hatch bigger ideas that are not forthright and not abiding by the law.
~ Paul Gosar
We're charged by Congress with regulating financial institutions. We take that mission seriously. We are tough supervisors and regulators.
~ Janet Yellen
I'm running for Congress to represent Missouri's 1st because we need leadership that is truly invested in helping us become stronger and safer. I'm running because I have a commitment to every member of my community.
~ Cori Bush