Thoughts of Congress Quotes in English

You shouldn't be talking to me. You should be down asking your representatives in Congress how did they let this happen.

- Raymond

I fully expect that Congress will iron out the differences. With Social Security reform a bust, pension reform is a must.

- Klein

I don't know that there's a sense of urgency among members of Congress to address it. I don't think there are any plans among the pro-life coalition to push for Congress to intervene.

- Congress

Just last week I traveled with both of them to Washington to meet with the leaders in Congress, and we reminded them that California is at the tip of the spear of our nation's military capability, that we do it all.

- Schwarzenegger

The Congress tends to guard its powers very jealously, now more so than ever. There's nothing wrong with the president educating the public about the line-item veto. But any president has really got to be prepared to use the veto power he already has.

- Gramm

I will not deny that there are men in the district better qualified than I to go to Congress, but gentlemen, these men are not in the race.

- Rayburn

It's a big deal that Congress is voting to approve increasing the national debt. They say 'We're going to control spending' and then they turn around and make huge budget amendments, sending us further into debt.

- Wilson

Under the Constitution, the same version of a bill has to be passed by both houses of Congress. We filed our lawsuit because it's important for the government to abide by the law.

- Rosenbaum

Stripping jurisdiction from the court after they have decided is far-reaching and, I think, premature. Congress can override the Supreme Court, but in this case I don't consider it the right thing to do.

- Casey

The country is facing unprecedented challenges ever since the Congress-led coalition came to power at the centre and the government has failed on all fronts.

- Singh

Congress Quotes List and Sayings in English

Congress fails in the effort to get a simple, understandable tax code.

- Everson

Congress is against any confrontation in society over reservations.

- Congress Quotes by Shukla

A Congressman is never any better than his roads, and sometimes worse.

- Rogers Quotes

Congress has kind of proven it's not capable of policing itself.

- Congress Quotes by Boyle

These people need help. They need to know Congress is doing something, too.

- Baucus Quotation

I'll decide tomorrow after the Uefa Congress whether I will speak or not.

- A Quotation From Johansson

There was a hands-off mentality because Congress didn't understand the issues.

- Lane

The more it fails, the more money it seems Congress and the president are willing to throw at it.

- Hughes

The memory, the spirit, and the unforgettable presence of Che are presiding over this Fifth Party Congress.

- Castro

I feel in this regard, Congress has personally failed me, as an FBI special agent and as an American.

- Williams

We've told Congress and everyone else who will listen that we don't intend to branch.

- Heires *

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

- Ackerman

It looked like Congress was going to do the right thing, but it never happened.

- Wolfe

We don't want it to go to Congress.

- Carr

I'd just as soon they shut Congress down for a few years.

- Hirsch

That's what mayors do. They lobby Congress to provide resources for their city.

- Waters

During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.

- Gore

Congress rightly rejected this measure last year and must reject it again.

- Fredrickson Download or Share

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress;  but I repeat myself.

- Mark Twain Download or Share

The congress will bring ratification, reiteration of the fundamentals of the revolution.

- Alarcon Download or Share

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

- Victor Hugo Download or Share

We have not galvanized Congress, but we will have to.

- Foxman Download or Share

Cures were developed for which there were no known diseases.

- Reagan Download or Share

Summer's here, temperatures are rising and tempers will really rise if Congress doesn't pass an energy bill.

- Reagan Download or Share

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

- Will Rogers Download or Share

If they wasn't in congress, why, they would be doing something else against us that might be even worse.

- Rogers Download or Share

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

- Congress Quotes by Mark Twain Download or Share

For Congress and the president, because they have had to make so much money to get elected, their options to implement reform are limited and probably not politically feasible.

- Makinson

He is entitled to speak as a member of the Congress Working Committee. It doesn't mean he is speaking on behalf of the Congress party in that sense.

- Singhvi

Oh, I don't blame congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd irresponsible, too.

- Congress Quotes by Lichty and Wagner

There's no room on the agenda, there's no room in Congress and there's no room politically.

- Sabato

If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonal experience and the effectual complaints of the people, America would not long retain her rank among the nations.

- Thoreau

Rail-splitting produced an unparalleled president in Lincoln. But gold hasn't produced even a good A-1 congressman.

- Twain

Cleanup drive in Washington, to break the grip of the permanent corporate government that makes good people in the Congress not fulfill their own potential.

- Nader

The board is insulated in a wide range from any control from presidential oversight, from Congress.

- Factor

The government is willing to be guided by the principle that it won't achieve IT security through regulation. Congress and the federal agencies should be discouraged from trying to craft IT regulation into law.

- Clarke

Congress doesn't have a right to be basically accusing my client of failing by not negotiating transactions on behalf of the company or pushing the computer buttons and sharpening the pencils.

- Hiler

If Congress passes this resolution it will have destroyed in 10 hours what it took the Occupational Safety and Health Administration 10 painstaking years to create.

- Kennedy

We screened that movie before members of Congress. Hopefully, the screening of the movie had some kind of an effect on the process.

- Glickman

We are not privy to this. The Congress has played no role in this. The law will take its own course and the guilty should be punished.

- Singhvi

Our message to the president and Congress is simple--let's work together to get a program done this year.

- Hellman

So I'm asking Congress, please investigate this now. Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency and give me a better idiot. Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don't give me the same idiot.

- Broussard

Her eldest is a member of the United States Congress, who has the privilege of standing before you and addressing this convention.

- Rogan

Congress Quotation in English

You cannot declare martial law without the support of Congress. It will be crazy for the President to declare martial law when we know that Congress does not approve of it, what with the present climate in the Senate.

- Gonzalez

I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.

- Lee

Both the President and Congress moved in exactly the wrong direction last year by approving a cut in education, and this year aggravated the situation by approving another cut just as the demands of the law were becoming greater.

- Jennings

It's absolutely outrageous. The agency is substituting the judgment of Belgian and French chefs for the judgment of Congress.

- Markarian

We'll also be providing voter education programs. In the meantime, we'll be keeping up the pressure on Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform.

- Steinbauer

I think it was a consensus among members of Congress, and I think the president is receptive to the idea.

- Santorum

Part of the fire grants designated by Congress is set aside for health and safety for firefighters. We lose, over 50 percent of our firefighters' fatalities are heart attacks and strokes.

- Paulison

The Congress president has taken a serious note of the unfortunate deaths in Assam and raised the issue at appropriate quarters.

- Singhvi

Once members of Congress see just how much they would stand to gain by a fairer distribution, I think that will help shift the debate.

- Cook

It's clear Florida is dead in the sights of the oil industry and their allies in Congress and the White House.

- Ferrulo

At a time when the entire country believes we need to make higher education more affordable, Congress is trying to balance the budget on the backs of students.

- Harris Thoughts

It's a self-perpetuating system involving interests, members of Congress, people in the executive branch and patronage positions and so on.

- Ornstein Thought

The goals of the city coincide with my goals as a member of Congress. That is to shrink government and promote growth.

- Vavricek

I don't think this one is going to go away. Members of Congress know they are going to face this issue in November

- Claybrook

We're prepared for that debate. We will advise the Congress that it is our very clear judgment that this is a good deal for the United States as well as for India.

- Burns

Our interest is in making certain the members of Congress have full information about it, and that, we're convinced, will give them a level of comfort with this.

- Rove

Unfortunately, it looks like Congress is going to squander another day without getting any substantial work done.

- Siewert

It's a temporary tool and as soon as Congress raises the limit, all interest will be restored and there will be no adverse consequences for G-fund investors.

- McLaughlin

Congress cannot approve an illegal program when so many questions remain unanswered. When the rule of law has been broken by anyone, especially a president, the proper response is a full and independent investigation.

- Fredrickson

The base in Congress is eroding as members worry about their own electorates, start to back away from him on immigration, start to back away on Iraq and start to consider the president as an optional ally rather than a vital one.

- Buchanan

The House has completely abdicated its constitutional responsibility to police itself. There is still no member of Congress, in either party, willing to file an ethics complaint.

- Sloan

Having Congress or having other people call for him to be fired or call for him to resign would not be productive. That's something really only the president should decide.

- Rainville