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It was an attempt to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye.
— George P. Shultz
I've tried to maintain my independence in Congress. Sometimes that has meant opposing my own party leaders.
— Collin C. Peterson
A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that American history marches forward.
— Theodore White
You spend a couple million dollars running for Congress, people get tired of seeing your face.
— Louie Gohmert
I put myself and all the members of Congress in the same boat of things that could have been done better.
— John Breaux
Congress never loses its capacity to disappoint you.
— John Oliver
One of the first members of Congress I met when I was first elected in 2008 was Barney Frank.
— Chellie Pingree
Instead of marginalizing women, Congress must get to work on policies that can foster job creation and fuel economic growth.
— Kirsten Gillibrand
During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together.
— John Adams
I could say, as a member of Congress, we usually get an alert if something is going to happen at the Capitol.
— Barack Obama
During my first term in Congress, I signed a pledge that I will take no more earmarks and I've been faithful to that pledge.
— Michele Bachmann
It is not true that Congress spends money like a drunken sailor. Drunken sailors spend their own money. Congress spends our money.
— Arthur Laffer
Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes.
— Dave Reichert
It's August, which means Congress is on recess and Mitch McConnell has shimmied back into the ocean to seek a mate.
— Stephen Colbert
Congress consists of one-third, more or less, scoundrels; two-thirds, more or less, idiots; and three-thirds, more or less, poltroons.
— H.L. Mencken
Congress should get the job done.
— Jacob Lew
The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today.
— Marty Meehan
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.
— Everett Dirksen
My golf-loving friend Bob Hope asked me what my handicap was, so I told him - the Congress.
— Ronald Reagan
If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.
— P. Chidambaram
Congress is not an ATM.
— Robert Byrd
I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Congress of Scientists.
— Marquis De Condorcet
If a star football player can have a mythical girlfriend, why can't I have a mythical Congress?
— Tina Brown
I submit to you, Mr. President of Congress, my formal resignation as president of the republic.
— Alberto Fujimori
Now back in those days, to become a rural mail carrier you had to be approved by congress.
— Betty Hill
Congress doesn't hate Congress.
— Jack Abramoff
With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke.
— Will Rogers
Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected.
— Charles Krauthammer
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[Campaign sign when running for Congress in 1967:] Vote for me or I will hold my breath until I turn blue.
— Shirley Temple
Pope Francis is going to go to Washington, D.C., to address Congress. He believes the New England Patriots have been deflating his giant hat.
— David Letterman
There are only two economists in Congress and hundreds of lawyers. Does that explain why the government is in such a mess?
— Thomas Sowell
As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
— Nancy Pelosi
It is safe to say that the U.S. Congress is now run by paid staffers, not by people elected to do the job.
— Barry Goldwater
Grant, in his message, has remembered all classes and conditions of men to Congress,
— Lois Beachy Underhill
As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education.
— Mark Kennedy
Congress is not a party which fades when not in power
— P. Chidambaram
What I find with my fellow female members of Congress is that we tend to work very hard. While we're very focused, we can also multitask a lot better.
— Shelley Moore Capito
One might find men in Congress who possess twice your good looks, but not one who possesses half your good sense.
— Seth Grahame-Smith
Divide and rule is the way Congress does their politics while we say let's unite and do development.
— Narendra Modi
The US is safest when Congress is in recess.
— Will Rogers
I know I'm representing the Library of Congress, all the people of the United States and, of course, the Latinos and Latinas as well.
— Juan Felipe Herrera
It's not the function of Congress to do criminal investigations.
— Saxby Chambliss
It is statesmanlike for the administration and Congress to look to our nation's welfare beyond their terms in office.
— Nick Clooney
We know of no more crucial civil rights issue facing Congress today than the need to increase the federal minimum wage and extend its coverage.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The failed stimulus, along with Obamacare's long list of failures, show what happens when Congress passes laws in a rush.
— John Barrasso
I was a heart surgeon before I came to Congress, and I've worked many holidays on behalf of my patients.
— Larry Bucshon
To gain support in U.S. Congress and from other nations requires clarity, an acceptable mission and an explicit outcome.
— Donald Rumsfeld
I think it's difficult for members of Congress to be as independent as they need to be in their voting.
— Jim Moran
Let's not forget that Congress bears a lot of responsibility for many of the problems we have now
— Colin Powell
The thing they're trying to stop is 30-million people getting health insurance. That's the substance.
— Chris Hayes
Forget public service. We all come here with good intentions, but as time passes, it becomes all about self-service and selfish survival.
— Congressman X
The Congress has now become a fairly evenly divided entity.
— John Dingell
If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.
— Nate Silver
Granting such immunity undermines the constitutional protections Americans trust the Congress to protect.
— Barack Obama
Hurray! Congress is to adjourn! Only four more days of Congressional burglary on the Treasury!
— Will Rogers
There are people in Congress who aren't very bright. In fact, some of them are just plain brain-dead.
— Neal Boortz
Congress must also enact pro-growth policies that encourage the economy to expand: like making tax relief permanent and repealing the death tax.
— Michael Steele
Some members of Congress are among the best actors in the world.
— Shirley Chisholm
In 2010, we have to focus on electing a new Congress and in 2012 we have to focus on electing a new president.
— Andrew P. Harris
If we could manage our own finances the way the Congress does the nation's, we'd all be living in high cotton and eating high on the hog.
— Charley Reese
I guess the optimistic thing is that those people in Congress who are climate deniers, I think their time has run out.
— Robert Redford
I have a reputation for being the hardest working person in Congress.
— Shelley Berkley
One of my top priorities in Congress is to reduce U.S. dependence on fossil fuels.
— Lincoln Diaz-Balart
[It is not the purpose nor right of Congress] to attend to what generosity and humanity require, but to what the Constitution and their duty require.
— William Branch Giles
Being a farmer is a great qualification to have to serve in the United States Congress.
— Bruce Braley
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.
— Robert A. Caro
The establishment of the chaplainship to Congress is a palpable violation of ... constitutional principles.
— James Madison
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain from.
— Mahatma Gandhi
What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.
— Sam Brownback
There are more whooping cranes in the United States of America than there are women in Congress.
— Joanna Russ
When people say - 'Well, do you miss being a judge since you're in Congress,' I go - 'Only when I want people to sit down and shut up.'
— Louie Gohmert
It would not be for the public good to have [a majority in Congress of one party] greater [than] two to one.
— Thomas Jefferson
Anybody that brings up amnesty in this Congress, we need to just take the scarlet 'A' for amnesty and pin it on them.
— Steve King
Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.
— Wendell Phillips
Despite the goings-on in Congress, I don't believe the USA is bordering on madness. I believe Mexico and Canada are.
— Robert Breault
Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores.
— Ray Bradbury
