Congress Quotes - Page 5

I have also come to understand Congress' need for a bipartisan as well as a partisan capacity.

I came to Congress to help reduce spending.

You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the President. Every year they don't balance the budget, we don't pay them.

We should go forward in courts and Congress with investigations into post-9/11 interrogations and the decisions leading to them.

We talk about our military being degraded over time, and yet we've had folks who've been a part of Congress who have participated in sequester; who participated in the degrading of this military over time.

Members of Congress must live according to the same laws as everyone else.

Congress doesn't regulate Wall Street. Wall Street regulates Congress.

The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.

Perhaps our Congress will be Exalted on a high Gallows.

The Israelis have a lot of influence with Congress, and in some cases they are able to buy influence.

With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high.

I ran for Congress, just once.

When congress is in session no American is safe.

9/11 references are like Lay's potato chips...no Congress can make just one.

It's a lie! I am not an anti-Semite. The World Jewish Congress supported me and said that I am not anti-Semitic.

Not a single time have we gotten a right from Congress or from the President. We get them from God.

The question is who ought to make that decision, the Congress or the commanders? And as you know, my position is clear. I'm a commander guy.

Some members of Congress ought to have their mouths taped instead of their speeches.

About the only time Congress conforms to the will of the people is when it decides to adjourn.

Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing, after all.

Pigs are smarter than dogs, and both are smarter than Congress.

I have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency.

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public.