All Quotes

Confucius - or Kongzi, which means Master Kong - was not born to power, but his idiosyncrasies and ideas made him the Zelig of the Chinese classics.
‐‐ Evan Osnos

Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.
‐‐ Hu Shih

Confucius, who was born in the sixth century B.C., traditionally had a stature in China akin to that of Socrates in the West.
‐‐ Evan Osnos

Confucius would give his seat to an old woman. Communist cadres, on the other hand, took the best seats and called it a cultural revolution.
‐‐ Gerald Vizenor

Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.
‐‐ John Milton

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.
‐‐ Henry Miller

Confusion makes people uncomfortable. They can't put their finger on me.
‐‐ Lenny Kravitz

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
‐‐ Albert Einstein

Congealed fat is pretty much the same, irrespective of the delicacy around which it is concealed.
‐‐ Clement Freud

Congo has vast stands of biologically important forests as well as remote areas still waiting to be explored, yet we have very few botanists. I'm working to expand training for young students and inspire a new generation to make discoveries, spread the word about conservation, and increase protected areas throughout our country.
‐‐ Corneille Ewango

Congo, my country, has the largest forest in Africa, maybe the second-largest in the world. I was born in a forest area, and when I was growing up, I assisted my uncle, who was a poacher. That was good, because it grew my passion for protecting the forest and plants.
‐‐ Corneille Ewango

Congratulations are in order for Woody Allen - he and Soon Yi have a brand new baby daughter. It's all part of Woody's plan to grow his own wives.
‐‐ David Letterman

Congratulations to Prince Charles for banning foie gras from all his functions.
‐‐ Morrissey

Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.
‐‐ Jesse Ventura

Congregations shaped by the Scriptures generally have preachers who are shaped by the Scriptures.
‐‐ John Ortberg

Congress as a whole is less popular than it's been since polling was invented.
‐‐ Jim Cooper

Congress becomes the public voice of opposition.
‐‐ Robert Dallek

Congress: Bingo with billions.
‐‐ Red Skelton

Congress came to see NASA primarily as a jobs program, not an exploratory agency.
‐‐ Gregory Benford

Congress can protect small businesses by providing effective oversight over SBA policies and make sure they take into account the needs of small businesses while also protecting taxpayer dollars. Congress also needs to make sure that new banking regulations do not make it more costly for community banks to lend to small businesses.
‐‐ Sam Graves

Congress can't take the year off, election or no election.
‐‐ Kay Bailey Hutchison

Congress cannot be allowed to impose burdens on the American people while relieving its own members of those burdens.
‐‐ Ron DeSantis

Congress created a safe harbor for defamation in 1996 and for copyright in 1998. Both safe harbors were designed to ensure that the Internet would remain a participatory medium of speech.
‐‐ Marvin Ammori

Congress did a good thing back in 1995 in passing the Deep Water Royalty Relief Act. That act did a simple thing. It provided automatic royalty relief for new leases for 5 years in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
‐‐ Bobby Jindal

Congress did the right thing with Ebola. They funded us to protect Americans and keep us safer.
‐‐ Tom Frieden

Congress does investigations better than they do anything else.
‐‐ Mitch Landrieu

Congress first took action against steroids by passing The Anabolic Steroids Control Act of 1990.
‐‐ Jim Sensenbrenner

Congress had the opportunity to extend tax relief to working families without increasing the deficit. Instead, we were handed a bill that favors the wealthy and eliminates deductions that benefit the middle class.
‐‐ Rick Larsen

Congress has a legitimate interest in making sure that a practice that appears to reduce disease and healthcare costs remains available to parents. And, nothing in my bill prohibits statewide law ensuring that male circumcision occurs in a hygienic manner.
‐‐ Brad Sherman

Congress has a responsibility to make sure our taxpayer dollars are being spent responsibly and effectively, and at the same time, that our men and women in uniform have everything they need to carry out the War on Terror.
‐‐ Larry Craig

Congress has a responsibility to review research paid for by hard-working American taxpayers.
‐‐ Lamar S. Smith

Congress has an obligation to clear the legal fog by passing my bill to require the federal government to obtain a warrant if it wants to conduct aerial surveillance.
‐‐ Suzan DelBene

Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes.
‐‐ Dave Reichert

Congress has an opportunity to take advantage of the opening created by Justice Kennedy later this year when it reauthorizes the federal No Child Left Behind Act.
‐‐ Jonathan Kozol

Congress has changed the Social Security system over time, and over 20 times in the past Congress has raised taxes on Social Security in payroll taxes into the system.
‐‐ Chris Chocola

Congress has consistently rejected policies that aim to allow illegal aliens to serve in the military.
‐‐ Paul Gosar

Congress has funded numerous programs to provide care and compensation to 9/11 victims, spending several billion dollars on extraordinary and unprecedented efforts.
‐‐ Michael Enzi

Congress has greatly tightened the loopholes terrorists can use to harm Americans. We need to do more. We need controls immediately on what forms of ID are adequate to board planes and enter secure sites.
‐‐ Elton Gallegly

Congress has no business telling courts within a state that they are prohibited from considering issues involving a lease for energy development, production, and exploration that has the potential to cause irreparable environmental and economic damage to the Gulf Coast area of that state.
‐‐ Ted Deutch

Congress has not raised the minimum wage since 1997. The minimum wage is now at its lowest level in 50 years adjusted for inflation.
‐‐ Russ Carnahan

Congress has repeatedly passed laws and otherwise raised a ruckus about indecent language on the broadcast airwaves used for radio and television.
‐‐ Reed Hundt

Congress has shortchanged not only foreign aid but foreign policy. A mistaken notion that diplomats are unimportant and hence undeserving of support grips conservative legislators, especially.
‐‐ Anthony Lewis

Congress has the constitutional authority to investigate the other agencies of government. We are the watchdogs of the taxpayer's money, and we have the right to know how that money is being spent and to conduct oversight over the government.
‐‐ Blake Farenthold

Congress has the power to legislate with regard to activity that, in the aggregate, has a substantial effect on interstate commerce.
‐‐ David Souter

Congress has the responsibility to ensure that any international trade agreement entered into by the United States must serve the national interest, not merely the interests of those crafting the proposal in secret.
‐‐ Jeff Sessions

Congress has turned its back on America's working families. There are Teamster families in every congressional district in America, and those families vote. Those who would oppose these families have done so at their own political peril.
‐‐ James P. Hoffa

Congress hasn't declared war on the countries - the majority of them are our allies - but without asking for public permission, NSA is running network operations against them that affect millions of innocent people. And for what? So we can have secret access to a computer in a country we're not even fighting?
‐‐ Edward Snowden

Congress is a place that lacks any debate of ideas.
‐‐ Mauricio Macri

Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
‐‐ Felicity Huffman

Congress is dysfunctional.
‐‐ Bob Filner