All Quotes

Congress is full of good, decent, smart people who have devoted their lives to public service.
‐‐ Jonathan Haidt

Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.
‐‐ Barber Conable

Congress is headed in the wrong direction with this bill which removes any and all incentives from the food industry to improve their products for children.
‐‐ Bob Filner

Congress is like first grade, only not as well behaved.
‐‐ Sean Patrick Maloney

Congress is more broken than ever. Congressman Will Hurd has quickly become part of the problem.
‐‐ Pete Gallego

Congress is my ideological home; I come from a Nehruvian family.
‐‐ Nandan Nilekani

Congress is not an ATM.
‐‐ Robert Byrd

Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
‐‐ E. L. Doctorow

Congress is the appropriate place to make laws about our country's immigration policy; it is not something that the president gets to decide on his own.
‐‐ John Barrasso

Congress is unable to do the work of the American people because too many politicians believe that compromise means capitulation.
‐‐ Emanuel Cleaver

Congress is unpopular. Incumbents are unpopular.
‐‐ Joshua Micah Marshall

Congress, it turns out, is filled with Republicans and Democrats eager to act as enablers for the most repressive forces in Iran.
‐‐ Stephen Kinzer

Congress mandated that health care providers in emergency departments and ambulances provide emergency care to anyone in need, including the uninsured and underinsured.
‐‐ Barbara Ann Radnofsky

Congress may not get the Internet, but the Internet doesn't get Congress, either.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon

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

Congress must demonstrate fiscal responsibility.
‐‐ Jeff Fortenberry

Congress must make it clear that common animal waste will not expose farmers to liability under Superfund, while ensuring continued action to clean up legitimate hazardous waste sites around the nation.
‐‐ Ike Skelton

Congress must not do something just for the sake of doing something. We must carefully and thoughtfully consider the implications of any action and whether that action will help or hinder our ultimate mission of protecting U.S. citizens from terror.
‐‐ Richard Burr

Congress must take responsibility for a new positive direction - an innovative agenda that will lead to a more secure America. Secure communities, secure economies, and a secure quality of life.
‐‐ Rick Larsen

Congress needs strong parties, but it also needs the capacity to deal with budget and entitlement challenges that are likely beyond the reach of pure partisan exertion.
‐‐ David Price

Congress never loses its capacity to disappoint you.
‐‐ John Oliver

Congress, of course, is not bound to accept the president's budget figures, but the House has the sole power to appropriate funds for spending, and it is a duty that should not be ignored.
‐‐ Marsha Blackburn

Congress passed the deeply flawed Patriot Act and authorized the invasion of Iraq. It even gave its retroactive approval to warrantless wiretapping.
‐‐ Andrew Rosenthal

Congress passes bills that appropriate money. Congress says, 'We're building this bridge or funding that defense project, and they cost this much.'
‐‐ Jay Carney

Congress requires states to draw single-member districts.
‐‐ Thomas E. Mann

Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation.
‐‐ John Yoo

Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.
‐‐ Shirley Chisholm

Congress seems to believe that 'Children are our future' is a phrase coined by tobacco advertisers.
‐‐ Jef I. Richards

Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It's really just a matter of priorities.
‐‐ Jared Polis

Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.
‐‐ Charley Reese

Congress should... at least keep pace with technological advances.
‐‐ Suzan DelBene

Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms.
‐‐ Bill Frist

Congress should consult experts and consider alternatives and make 100% sure that any step it takes to police the Internet doesn't change the Internet as we know it.
‐‐ Ron Wyden

Congress should get the job done.
‐‐ Jacob Lew

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

Congress should let HRSA release its guidance and analyze its impact before making changes to the 340B program that would harm safety-net hospitals and our vulnerable patients.
‐‐ Gene Green

Congress should pass legislation to remove from the federal courts their jurisdiction to hear these outrageous challenges to the Ten Commandments and the Pledge of Allegiance.
‐‐ Phyllis Schlafly

Congress should stop treating veterans like they're asking for a hand out when it comes to the benefits they were promised, and they should realize that, were it not for these veterans, there would be nothing to hand out.
‐‐ Nick Lampson

Congress suffers a great deal of criticism for its partisan acrimony. But while we may disagree politically, and air our opposition in this chamber, it is the conversation behind the scenes that cements and defines our relationships.
‐‐ Kay Bailey Hutchison

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

Congress, the White House, and Hollywood, Wall Street, are owned by the Zionists.
‐‐ Helen Thomas

Congress was designed by the Founding Fathers to move slowly, precisely to avoid the sudden panic of a one-week solution that becomes a 20-year mess.
‐‐ Newt Gingrich

Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.
‐‐ Andy Grove

Congress would exclude slavery from any territory that in the future might be acquired from Mexico.
‐‐ David Wilmot

Congressional dysfunction is the logical result of closed primaries, too many gerrymandered one-party seats, and low-turnout elections.
‐‐ John Delaney

Congressional intervention and the availability of intervention demonstrably offset agency indifference; are a guard against arbitrary, improper, and illegal bureaucratic decisions; and provide the power of public pressure to require the nonelected official to be responsive.
‐‐ Terry Sanford

Congressional opposition to immigration reform or emergency funds doesn't stem from any philosophical objections or differences of principle. It stems from a calculated, petty, selfish rejection of anything Obama proposes.
‐‐ Donna Brazile

Congressional Republicans are dismantling the limited environmental protections initiated by Richard Nixon, who would be something of a dangerous radical in today's political scene.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

Congressional Republicans themselves have vehemently defended the idea that preexisting conditions should not be used to deny people insurance.
‐‐ James Surowiecki

Congressional staff members do have a considerable amount of responsibility. But in my experience, the loyalty of the vast majority of staffers to their bosses leads them to be honest brokers of information for the members they work for.
‐‐ John Harwood