Top 1200 Congress Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

It is past time for Congress to get serious about our spending crisis and impose fiscal restraint.

Congress must hold those responsible for unfairly targeting organizations based on their ideological views accountable.

You pretty much have to be prepared to talk about whatever the news is. Running for Congress was good practice for that.

Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay

State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress. ... Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description, as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c., are component parts of this mass. No direct general power over these objects is granted to Congress, and, consequently, they remain subject to State legislation.

The pro-growth policies of Congress have helped created new jobs in the region and across the country.

The framers never intended an infinitely broad Commerce Clause that would let Congress dictate individuals' purchases.

As a member of Congress, I strongly believe I have a responsibility to be truthful, even if that means delivering difficult news.

Why should you construe that Congress and BJP are the only forces at the Centre? There could be third or fourth force.

Obviously, I am a member of Congress, and things that I say are elevated on a national level, and I understand that very clearly.

Congress party talks about Dalits but does not involve them in important decision making process.

From disaster relief to representation in Congress, the census plays an important role in protecting Iowa's future.

You spend a couple million dollars running for Congress, people get tired of seeing your face.

I doubt that Congress would pass on the opportunity to make sure that our children were safe from terrorists.

When I was 33 years old, I ran for United States Congress in New York City. I lost miserably.

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.

The right to life is guaranteed to all Americans in the Declaration of Independence, and ensuring this is upheld is the Constitutional duty of all members of Congress.

It is irresponsible for this Congress to not investigate the President's lack of an exit strategy, and the fraud, waste, and abuse of U.S. tax dollars.

Statements in support of radical terror organizations have become the norm for certain left wing members of Congress.

Congress can prevent future tragedies by requiring a background check for every gun purchase in America.

They all agree, they are all unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the rostrum, in the sanctuary - everywhere they declare that slavery shall not go into the Territories.

Most people are far more concerned that they can control their own bodies than they are about petitioning Congress.

The White House has something in common with the rest of America, and that is disdain for Congress. It is hard to blame them.

JFK [John F. Kennedy] was young, glamorous, Camelot, funny, engaging. Congress loved him.

No law can give Congress a backbone if it refuses to stand off as the coequal branch the Constitution made it.

I've never met a Democrat in Congress who wants open borders or who doesn't believe in enforcing immigration laws.

For a public option, I voted for that when I was in Congress, and the Senate couldn't stand up to the health insurance industry and took it out.

Sport has been called the last bastion of male domination. Unfortunately, there are others - Congress, for instance.

President Obama projects a strong offense, but he faces a rebellious Congress focused on state's rights.

Without any direction from Congress, our judicial branch has unilaterally created and defined qualified immunity.

My golf-loving friend Bob Hope asked me what my handicap was, so I told him - the Congress.

The Congress needs to consolidate its secular credentials. Its soft Hindutva approach would only help the BJP.

I think that Congress and its affiliates and journalists who support them have made trolling quite a sophisticated measure of intervention.

President Obama signed a bill preventing members of Congress from profiting from insider trading. Didn't you think that was already illegal?

To Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders is bad because she and her buddies in Congress don't 'like' him.

Last year, I co-sponsored the Highlands Conservation Act and in a bipartisan effort we passed the bill through Congress.

I expect Congress to continue to work on that, to secure the border, to invest in smart technology, and in personnel that makes a difference there.

It's fairly common for new members of Congress to hire their former campaign managers onto their official staff.

Before I could become a military officer or a Member of Congress, I was required to do one thing: Take an oath to the Constitution.

Trying to turn the Congress the President on the Iran deal, - it`s one thing to do that - it`s a giant moment in Israeli politics to decide to do that.

If you destroy the presidency and make it an errand boy for Congress, we're going to be a much weaker and more divided nation.

Our job in Congress is to serve the American people, and not enrich ourselves with special taxpayer-funded benefits.

Article I, Section 8, Clause 4 of the Constitution grants Congress clear jurisdiction with regard to U.S. citizenship and immigration matters.

I will continue to ask the president and his subordinates to work with Congress rather than against it.

I think people are beating each other up in the halls of Congress, as they did in the late 1850s.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

As we enter into the 110th Congress, it is imperative that we address ethics reforms needed to make this institution run correctly.

If a trip is worth taking, members of Congress should be prepared to justify paying for it out of their office accounts.

Modi made history in 2014 by becoming the first non-Congress government at the Centre to get absolute majority.

One of the primary reasons I first ran for Congress was to be a voice for our troops, veterans and military families.

The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress.

I want to tell BJP and Congress that BSP is not a toy for anyone. It's an independent party formed at the national level.

From day one, I've always tried to be an honest man. I ran for Congress to make a difference and not to just be another politician.

I hear people who are worried about climate change tell me, oh, Congress that's gridlock, that's not where the action is.

I am not one of those who thinks that Congress needs to be in session 24 hours a day interfering in peoples' lives.

A territory cannot become a state or a nation unless Congress approves legislation and the president signs it.

With scientific advances, Congress must now make changes to reflect new therapeutic options.

Inviting a foreign head of state to address the Congress is a clear breach of protocol and practice, and undermines the U.S. presidency.

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

For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain from.