Congress Quotes - Page 18

• We have two parties who are basically hijacking our country for their corporate paymasters. And if we focus on 535 members of Congress, that's not all that many, we're going to see a fast turnaround. So focus all your concerns, all the information, the kind of agenda the Green Party has. Turn it right on your Senators and Representatives.

  Ralph Nader

  Country, Party, Two

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• We have things to say about Congress and all of that. I think we may have our magnum opus coming yet. It's a piece called "Leonard" that I'm very excited about, and I think we're going to see a side of Chris Pine that people haven't really seen yet. That's all I'm going to say, but I'm proud of it.

  Joss Whedon

  Thinking, People, Pieces

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• There was this moment in 2003 when I was asked to do a fundraiser for someone who was speaking out against the Iraq war when nobody was. I said, "I will do a fundraiser for that guy." And then my friend John Hall, from the band Orleans...He ran for Congress in my district and won. I did a bunch of fundraisers for him.

  Dar Williams

  War, Iraq, Guy

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. November 3, 2016.

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• Let's say [Donald] Trump wins. Is Congress going to let him build a wall on the Mexican border? I don't think so.

  Gary Shilling

  Wall, Winning, Thinking

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• If Hillary [Clinton] is elected, is she going to be able to jack up taxes with virtually no deductions, and include capital gains? Unless democrats have a clean sweep of Congress, I don't think that's going to happen either.

  Gary Shilling

  Thinking, Able, Gains

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• The bigger issue is that we're communicating directly with voters [during the president campaign]. For those members of congress that endorse us, terrific, for those that don't, we're still winning voters in their state.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Winning, Issues, President

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• Look what the American people did with the comprehensive immigration bill. That was all lined up to get past and the American people spoke and then many members of Congress who were in favor of it changed their mind.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Past, People, Mind

  Source: www.glennbeck.com

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• If you think of big, legislative accomplishments, most of them kind of get initiated with the president putting something out there and Congress working on it.

  Tim Kaine

  Thinking, Accomplishment, President

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Usually the president is kind of the initiator of the idea, then Congress makes it work.

  Tim Kaine

  Ideas, President, Kind

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The president doesn't get a line-item veto, so all the budgetary approps stuff is with Congress.

  Tim Kaine

  President, Lines, Stuff

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The thing about an executive order - there has never been an executive order that a Congress couldn't say, "You know, we don't like that so we're going to do something else," if there is a majority in Congress to do something else.

  Tim Kaine

  Order, Majority, Executives

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Almost always, executive orders are within an authority and always within the purview of Congress to change if they want to legislatively change it.

  Tim Kaine

  Order, Want, Authority

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Before we announced Judge Merric Garland, people were saying they would not even deign to meet with him. And we're also aware that early in the week, when the Congress comes back, in fact, Senator Collins, the Republican from Maine, has agreed to meet with Judge Garland up in the Senate.

  Denis McDonough

  Judging, People, Facts

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Top Democrats laying down their markers for how they'll work with President [Donald] Trump, but who will take on the job of rebuilding the Democratic Party after Tuesday's crushing defeat put Republicans in control of the White House and congress.

  George Stephanopoulos

  Crush, Jobs, Party

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Even though Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, you now have Republicans in charge of the White House, the Congress, a majority of governors, more governors than they've had in 100 years, more state houses than they've ever had before.

  George Stephanopoulos

  Years, White, Popular Vote

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I've been talking to people all over the country, city council members, grassroots leaders, party leaders, members in Congress - and you know what? The truth is I'll have something to say real soon.

  Keith Ellison

  Country, Real, Party

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• It will be an unusual dynamic [in Congress]. It won't be like the rallying behind President [Barack] Obama in 2009 or behind President [George W.] Bush, even at the beginning of his presidency, or even [Bill] Clinton in '93, when he got his budget through on a partisan vote.

  William Kristol

  President, Bills, Vote

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Keith Ellison is an organizer's organizer.He's one of the only Muslims in Congress, so you have a big statement there.

  Van Jones

  Keith, Bigs, Organizer

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• People in Congress are willing to shut down the entire government or to make it impossible for a Supreme Court nominee to get a hearing or for routine appointments in the executive branch to go unfilled for years because of a hold placed by a senator.

  George Packer

  Government, Years, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Hillary Clinton's such a classic Democratic political figure and believes so much in institutions and in gradualism in the old way of reaching compromises with the opposition in the back rooms. That's what she did in Congress. It's what I imagine she'll try to do in the White House.

  George Packer

  Believe, White, House

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Unfortunately, Congress is protecting the profits of those opposed to protecting the planet.

  Ray Metcalfe

  Profit, Planets

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think the Congress will do the right thing. I think that they've - you know, they got into certain arguments and they start worrying about assessing blame, and there is a little demagoguery, but in the end, something this important, they'll do the right thing. So this really is an economic Pearl Harbor. That sounds melodramatic, but I've never used that phrase before. And this really is one.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Worry, Important

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview With Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• I think it's been, you know, kind of like a tragic play to this point. But at this point, I think it's clear, and will be clear to the majority of the Congress. I think it's clear to the American people that there is only one countervailing force to a world where financial institutions are trying to sell instruments every day and where credit has dried up, and that's the United States Treasury.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Play, People

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". "Charlie Rose", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• It's very important that the determination of the US Congress to do what is is needed be made evident this week and by the actions of most of the members. I mean, you're not going to get total assent.

  Warren Buffett

  Determination, Mean, Important

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview With Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• You can't help some increase from this point. I don't want any viewer to go away think a magic wand exists in Congress. So they're going to see some more bad news. But if we do this, we're doing the right thing.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Magic, Going Away

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview With Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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