Congress Quotes - page 41

I will continue to work diligently in Congress to ensure that our veterans receive the benefits and care that they have earned and deserve. (Todd Tiahrt)
My feeling is, if you're going to be called a celebrity, you might as well use it for some good. It's better to testify for school lunches in front of Congress than get drunk in a bar somewhere and misbehave. View quote
Tom Colicchio
Literally minutes before the Senate cast its vote, the administration sought to add the words 'in the United States and' after 'appropriate force' in the agreed-upon text. This last-minute change would have given the president broad authority to exercise expansive powers not just overseas -- where we all understood he wanted authority to act -- but right here in the United States, potentially against American citizens . I could see no justification for Congress to accede to this extraordinary request for additional authority. I refused. View quote
Tom Daschle
Our Founding Fathers created the Executive Branch to implement and enforce the laws written by Congress, and vested this power in the president. View quote
Tom Rice
A majority of senators should be able to adopt rules at the beginning of each Congress. View quote
Tom Udall
I have served in the Congress during two wars and I have seen the impacts on our military, on their families and on our national deficit. View quote
Tom Udall
When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out. View quote
Tammy Baldwin
Hopefully the presence in Congress of an American who happens to be Hindu will increase America's understanding of India as well as India's understanding of America. View quote
Tulsi Gabbard
With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high. View quote
Thomas E. Mann
When my father ran for the state Assembly, the headline said, 'Kean's Son to Run for Assembly.' When my grandfather first ran for Congress, it was 'Kean's son to run for Congress.' View quote
Thomas Kean, Jr.
They're calling their Washington sources at the NRC or in Congress and they're not hesitating to give their opinion, but their opinion, frankly, in those early days was not very well informed. (William Scranton)
I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress. View quote
Warren Christopher
(When asked if he would apologise for the Anti-Sikh riots) The fact of the matter is that innocent people died in 1984 and innocent people dying is a horrible thing and should not happen. The difference between Gujarat and 1984 was that the Government of Gujarat was involved in the riots. [...] I think that riots, as all riots, were a horrible event. Frankly I was not in operation in the Congress party. View quote
Rahul Gandhi
The problem... is that most members of Congress don't pay attention to what's going on. View quote
John McCain
I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal. View quote
Tom Clancy
And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions. View quote
John Grisham
Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
Unauthorized access to computer systems is already a serious crime in a few states and is currently being addressed in many more state legislatures as well as Congress. View quote
Ken Thompson
In fact, corporate and union moneys go overwhelmingly to incumbents, so limiting that money, as Congress did in the campaign finance law, may be the single most self-denying thing that Congress has ever done. View quote
Elena Kagan
All I can say is that with business and the interest of any party before me, I will consider and apply the law as it is written by Congress and informed by precedent. View quote
Sonia Sotomayor
Power tends to corrupt. But the power in Washington resides in Congress, if it wants to use it. It can do anything - it can stop the Vietnam War, it can make its will felt, if it can ever get its act together to do anything. (Antonin Scalia)
Once again, the puppets on Capitol Hill are about to slam the Muppets on Main Street. The country still hasn't recovered from the Wall Street-induced financial cataclysm of 2008, yet Congress is preparing to enact the Orwellian 'JOBS Act' - a bill that should in fact be called the 'Return Fraud to Wall Street in One Easy Step Act.' View quote
Eliot Spitzer
Well, as a former small businessperson - I understand what's going on, I think in the business community. And businesspeople around the country are looking at all the spending and all the debt. They're looking at all the policies coming out of this Congress and this administration the last two years, and they - it's created all this uncertainty. View quote
John Boehner
I was delighted with its high tone and the flights of oratory with which it abounded, especially that concerning negro slavery, which, though I knew his Southern brethren would never suffer to pass in Congress, I certainly never would oppose. View quote
John Adams
I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or to the people.' To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, not longer susceptible of any definition. View quote
Thomas Jefferson