Quotes of: Congress Keyword

It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people.

Joe Baca

Congress should just do its job and pass a transportation-infrastructure bill - a regular bill that doesn't borrow money and mortgage my future.

Steve Stivers

The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all; to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.

Gloria Naylor

There's no conscious plan here; my whole life in politics as a state legislator and in Congress has been about strengthening the middle class.

Peter Welch

For me, the Congress party is now my life, the people of India are my life, and I will fight for the people of India and for this party.

Rahul Gandhi

That character called 'Robin Wright' in the movie called 'The Congress' has nothing to do with me... I've never felt that way about life choices, career, etc.

Robin Wright

The Republican Party is in charge. They've been charge of the Congress and spending for 10 years.

Chaka Fattah

I have also come to understand Congress' need for a bipartisan as well as a partisan capacity.

David Price

Now back in those days, to become a rural mail carrier you had to be approved by congress.

Betty Hill

There is a need for Social Security reform to ensure its stability, and Congress must act.

Grace Napolitano

In 2005, I was the first member of Congress to introduce legislation calling for an immediate withdrawal of our troops from Iraq.

Jim McGovern

Our immigration system is not broken. We don't need, and Congress shouldn't enact, amnesty.

Jan C. Ting

Without moral values, which should begin in Congress, America will lose her roots, her basis, her thesis.

Janine Turner

I was eleventh-grade class president. That was the first elective office I held until I came into Congress.

Donna Edwards

Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction during their first term in Congress.

John George Nicolay

If you chose to serve in Congress or on a congressional staff, you should be barred for life from working for any company, organization, or association which lobbies the federal government.

Jack Abramoff

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.

Linda Sanchez

Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.

Donald Rumsfeld

Once it becomes impossible for members of Congress to make a career of legislative service, the temptation to bend a vote for whatever reason may yield to the better angels of their nature.

James L. Buckley

There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry.

Rita Dove

The First Amendment only says 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.' It can disrespect all it wants.

P. J. O'Rourke