Congress Quotes - Page 3

Congress shall never disarm any citizen unless such as are or have been in actual rebellion.

The member of Congress who forgets his constituents' needs usually serves only one term.

It's awfully hard to convey a sense of credibility to allies when you [the Congress] voted for the war and then you declared: Wrong war, wrong place, wrong time.

Every member Congress is under the threat of being destroyed by the Israeli lobby.

It was the Congress that imposed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.

If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything-and the Federal Government is no longer one of limited and enumerated powers.

Congress in session is Congress on public exhibition, whilst Congress in its committee-rooms is Congress at work.

Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to his materials.

We all joke about Congress but we can't improve on them. Have you noticed that no matter who we elect, he is just as bad as the one he replaces?

The US is safest when Congress is in recess.

Congress shall pass no law that exempts themselves!

We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.

The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today.

When you have a gutless Congress a lawless president can do pretty much what he chooses.

I put myself and all the members of Congress in the same boat of things that could have been done better.

Jack Abramoff is going to testify against some of the other weasels in Congress. A lobbyist testifying against congressmen? How many Bibles are going to burst into flames in that courtroom?

A top geneticist at Stanford says human intelligence is declining. You know what that means? We are seeing Congress at its smartest and most effective right now.

Parliaments are in all cases to declare what is good for the whole; but it is not the declaration of parliament that makes it so.

The Congress will push me to raise taxes, and I'll say no, and they'll push, and I'll say no, and they'll push again and I'll say to them, read my lips, no new taxes.

It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.

I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.

Labor Day, I suppose set by an Act of Congress. Everything we do nowadays is either by, or against, Acts of Congress. How Congress knew anything about Labor is beyond us.

We have the best Congress that money can buy.

Congress requires states to draw single-member districts.

The Congress is a power-oriented party.