Congress Quotes - Page 2

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

When I ran for Congress I promised to help make health care affordable again.

I've had a tough time learning how to act like a Congressman. Today I accidentally spent some of my own money.

Our founding fathers never intended that Congress be a career.

The Congress as I see, does not belong to me or to you, but it belongs to the whole country.

Hillary's explanation of the Libyan action to Congress was so good, I wonder who explained it to her?

That's what mayors do. They lobby Congress to provide resources for their city.

I could be an idiot, or I can serve in Congress, but I repeat myself.

Congress can't take the year off, election or no election.

Our runaway judiciary is badly in need of restraint by Congress.

I probably hold more town halls than any member of Congress.

Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected.

I am Congress; I'm president.

There are even more fatalities from cirrhoses of the liver [than automobiles], yet Congress has not once mentioned outfitting us all with anti- alcohol equipment.

During my first term in Congress, I signed a pledge that I will take no more earmarks and I've been faithful to that pledge.

Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry

Aren't we supposed to believe that if you are an elected official, if you serve in Congress, you are representing all the people of your district not just the people who voted for you, not [just] the people who you agree with?

From early on, everything I did was calculated to being elected to Congress.

And always remember, Abraham Lincoln only served one term in Congress, too.

The laws of Congress are restricted to a certain sphere, and when they depart from this sphere, they are no longer supreme or binding.

I didn't leave the Congress; I was expelled.

Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.

Yes, [I am accusing the CIA of] misleading the Congress of the United States, misleading the Congress of the United States. I am.

Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.

Since Congress makes the laws they are under the delusion that anything they do is legal, no matter if it is unwise, unethical, or un-Constitutional.