Congress Quotes - Page 16

• It was fascinating what a total interest he [John F. Kennedy] had in his tradecraft of being a politician. I didn't realize before that he was working on his memoirs all along, how he ran for Congress, that sort of thing.

  Chris Matthews

  Realizing, Politician, Interest

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• Let's come together and form our own party, and give the other parties hell - and then vette who we want, and take down these crooked rotten politicians that are in Congress, in the White House, and in the Supreme Court.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Party, White, Giving

  "The Breakfast Club Interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan". www.finalcall.com. July 5, 2016.

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• I realized that in all the sectors of society where there's a huge gender disparity, the one place that can be fixed overnight is onscreen. You think about getting half of Congress, or the presidency ... It's going to take a while no matter how hard we work on it. But half of the board members and half of the CEOs can be women in the next movie somebody makes; it can be absolutely half.

  Geena Davis

  Thinking, Boards, Half

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• This In Friendship - out of it came certain connections with the liberal labor establishment. Among the personalities that were involved were Bayard Rustin and a person from the American Jewish Congress, Stanley Levinson.

  Ella Baker

  Personality, Connections, Certain

  Source: www.crmvet.org

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• I think he [Donald Trump] recognizes that a plan that would increase the deficit by $10 trillion over a decade is not a plan that's likely to get traction in Congress.

  Avik Roy

  Thinking, Increase, Trump

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It's far from clear in general that Donald Trump is a guy who really thinks about the details of policy and is going to do the kind of heavy lifting you have to do as president to get those policies through in Congress. I think the hope is that Paul Ryan and his crew will push policies through Congress and Trump will just sign them. That's not really how policy works.

  Avik Roy

  Thinking, Guy, President

  "'Forbes' Editor: Trump Continues 'Common Rhetorical Line' On Trade Deals". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. August 8, 2016.

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• I think she [Hillary Clinton] would be far superior to President [Barack] Obama, who is basically remote, aloof and not involved with - he doesn't deal with members of Congress.

  Mark Shields

  Thinking, President, Would Be

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We will end the sanctuary cities that have resulted in so many needless deaths. Cities that refuse to cooperate with federal authorities will not receive taxpayer dollars, and we will work with Congress to pass legislation to protect those jurisdictions that do assist federal authorities.

  Donald Trump

  Cities, Dollars, Sanctuary

  Donald Trump's immigration speech in Phoenix, Arizona, www.nytimes.com. September 1, 2016.

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• In effect, Hillary Clinton would be abolishing the lawmaking powers of Congress in order to write her own laws from the Oval Office. And you see what bad judgment she has. She has seriously bad judgment.

  Donald Trump

  Writing, Order, Law

  Source: time.com

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• We will finally complete the biometric entry-exit visa tracking system which we need desperately. For years Congress has required biometric entry-exit visa tracking systems, but it has never been completed. The politicians are all talk, no action, never happens. Never happens.

  Donald Trump

  Years, Needs, Biometrics

  Donald Trump's Immigration Speech in Phoenix, www.latimes.com. August 31, 2016.

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• We will ensure that E-Verify is used to the fullest extent possible under existing law, and will work with Congress to strengthen and expand its use across the country.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Law, Use

  Donald Trump immigration speech in Arizona, www.politico.com. August 31, 2016.

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• I believe we should sunset our visa laws so that Congress is forced to periodically revise and revisit them to bring them up to date. They're archaic. They're ancient. We wouldn't put our entire federal budget on auto pilot for decades, so why should we do the same for the very, very complex subject of immigration?

  Donald Trump

  Believe, Sunset, Law

  "Donald Trump promises 'no amnesty' in aggressive immigration speech - as it happened" by Scott Bixby, Tom Mccarthy, Claire Phipps, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2016.

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• Questions of such gravity go down to the very foundations of the government. If the provisions of the Constitution can be set aside by an act of Congress, where is the course of usurpation to end?

  Stephen Johnson Field

  Government, Political, Foundation

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• My son, Emilio Huerta, is running for congress. He was a young man who was marching and picketing.

  Dolores Huerta

  Running, Son, Men

  Source: www.sdfoundation.org

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• When I came into the job, funding for the humanities at the federal level was being drastically cut. This was the high tide of the new Republican Congress.

  Robert Hass

  Jobs, Cutting, Humanity

  Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.

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• I would rather enlighten the electorate so that when it's time for them to put somebody in Congress, it will be self-evident that they will embrace the message and tools and discovery of science in a way that can transform our culture and even our civilization.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Self, Civilization, Discovery

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't want to make a member of Congress do something that that member of Congress's constituents would not approve of, or would not agree to. So in that regard, I'm kind of the opposite of a lobbyist.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Opposites, Want, Lobbyists

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Librarian of Congress: It's a librarian's dream.

  Carla Hayden

  Dream, Librarian

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There are so many items that are not in the copyright domain. And people might not realize the Library of Congress manages the copyright process for the nation.

  Carla Hayden

  People, Library, Might

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You can go into the Library of Congress and find information on just about anything, but that doesn't do you much good unless you know what you are looking for.

  Noam Chomsky

  Library, Information, Knows

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, August 15, 2012.

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• Under Donald Trump, you know, we've seen the foundation of the Republican Party move into the Democratic Party, so Donald Trump, I think, will have a lot of trouble moving things through Congress.

  Jill Stein

  Party, Moving, Thinking

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• Political gerrymandering makes the incentive for most members of Congress to play to the extremes of their base rather than to the center.

  Barack Obama

  Play, Political, Gerrymandering

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• We have a country where you have Hillary Clinton with her e-mails that nobody's ever seen where she deletes 33,000 e-mails, and that's after getting a subpoena from Congress. If you do that in private business, you get thrown in jail.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Jail, Mail

  "Donald Trump’s interview at the Commander-in-Chief Forum". www.freerepublic.com. August 9, 2016.

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• We know that from the GI Bill after the Second World War, where Congress found that for every dollar we put in as taxpayers into free higher education for returning GIs, we got back $7 for every dollar invested. An enormous return on our money in public benefits and improved revenue.

  Jill Stein

  War, World, Gis

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• Remember we had two Democratic houses of Congress along with the [Barack] Obama administration that laid out those policies before they lost Congress because people were very disappointed in what the Obama administration did - bailing out Wall Street instead of bailing out Main Street. So as someone who follows the climate very closely, there's no question that "all of the above" has been an absolute disaster.

  Jill Stein

  Wall, Two, People

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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