Congress Quotes - Page 19

• I know that Congress will do the right thing.

  Warren Buffett

  Knows, Right Thing

  "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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• That so much power over the U.S. nuclear arsenal is placed in the hands of one man - any man - bodes ill for humanity, while completely undermining the war power granted to Congress in the U.S. constitution.

  David Krieger

  War, Men, Hands

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The Constitution is very clear: Congress has sole discretion over defining who is and who isn't a citizen and how you become one. It's not the 14th Amendment.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Citizens, Defining, Constitution

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• The Constitution says Congress has complete control over who is and who is not a US citizen.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Citizens, Constitution

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• Congress decides who becomes a citizen and how. To automatically say the 14th Amendment grants birthright citizenship, no, we can't change that. Amending the Constitution, not possible, takes too long. We gotta find another way of dealing with this. No, we don't, because it's not there. You don't have to amend the Constitution.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Long, Citizens, Way

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• Congress is the great enabler, constitutionally, for progressive society, and it's the great graveyard, the way it's been behaving, against a prosperous society, or another billionaire or two.

  Ralph Nader

  Two, Progressive Society, Way

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• Congress is the most powerful branch. It can expand a progressive society, or it can block a progressive society.

  Ralph Nader

  Powerful, Block, Branches

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• The president [Barack Obama] did introduce a jobs bill that could not clear Congress. The Republicans simply would not work with him.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Jobs, President, Bills

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• I am going to work with people who hold similar views to me inside Congress, outside of Congress to make certain that we come together to stop Trump from doing some of the very ugly things that he has talked about doing.

  Bernie Sanders

  Views, Ugly Things, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Why I supported Keith Ellison for chairing the DNC because I know Keith. And I know he`s not going to take a lot of stuff. He`s going to be in the halls of Congress arguing. But he is going to go out to the protests and talk to people.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  People, Keith, Stuff

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• That`s why somebody like a Tim Ryan can go to a bar in Youngstown just as well as in Congress and talk to working people. Democrats know how to carry the message. We just have to take some telephone new voices and bring them forward.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Voice, People, Bars

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The highest ranking woman in the Congress, Cathy McMorris Rodgers who has given birth three times while she's been in Congress. That's pretty impressive.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Three, Ranking, Birth

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The great successes of the modern environmental movement in the '60s and '70s had laid the seeds of their failure in the early years of the 21st Century. They had built institutions filled with lawyers and scientists well suited to lobby policy makers who basically shared their world view. This worked well when liberals controlled the Congress and much of the federal bureaucracy, and when the politics of the time were more supportive of active government efforts to regulate the economy and clean up the environment.

  Ted Nordhaus

  Government, Views, Years

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• I don't know how you change that. There's hardly anybody left like me in the Democratic Party in Congress. These districts have been so gerrymandered that, in most of them, a Democrat can't win. Somebody like me trying to start off today, he'd never get endorsed. Because I'm too conservative.

  Collin Peterson

  Party, Winning, Trying

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• [Donald] Trump`s hunt for a cheap enemy right now comes as journalists and members of Congress are looking at potentially serious conflicts of interest at Trump`s sprawling multinational business empire.

  Chuck Todd

  Enemy, Empires, Serious

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I think concerns with a member of Congress with a cabinet official being active in business. I don`t see why it wouldn`t apply to the president.

  Lindsey Graham

  Thinking, President, Cabinets

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The Emoluments section shares with the Constitution. That`s not a law that Congress could change or the president could ignore.

  Chuck Todd

  Law, President, Constitution

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Hopefully folks will look at the good things that I've done over the years, you know, my 10 years in Congress, my 12 years in state legislature, my many years of community organizing for the environment, for police accountability, for criminal justice reform, economic empowerment, trying to fight for small-business people, all these things.

  Keith Ellison

  Fighting, Years, Justice

  Source: www.npr.org

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• We've learned something about President-elect [Donald] Trump's choice for secretary of defense. Lawmakers in Congress intend to proper debate over whether retired General James Mattis meets a requirement for civilian control of the military.

  Steve Inskeep

  Military, Choices, President

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Congress can grant a waiver [for General James Mattis ] and has done that once in history.

  Steve Inskeep

  Done, General James Mattis, Waiver

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Canada has no closer friend, partner, and ally than the United States. We look forward to working very closely with President-elect Trump, his administration, and with the United States Congress in the years ahead, including on issues such as trade, investment, and international peace and security.

  Justin Trudeau

  Years, Issues, President

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Whoever is standing up telling the white man that his position is unjust and that the black people should not have to wait for any Supreme Court, Congress or Senate to legislate, or even the president to issue any kind of - of a proclamation to better the condition of our people, if a N - if he - if a, if a Negro leader is standing up, making that point clear, then he's all right with us.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, Issues

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• How did Madison get separation through Virginia and later Congress? The Baptists, the Presbyterians, and the smaller sects hated Jefferson; to them he was a secularist of the worst kind. But Madison could get Jefferson's bill passed because the Baptists, the Presbyterians, and smaller sects who were excluded in New England and in the South got together for their own protection.

  John Rawls

  Virginia, Together, England

  John Rawls, Samuel Richard Freeman (1999). “Collected Papers”, p.620, Harvard University Press

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• If you were an elected member of Congress and people in your constituency were losing jobs and shutting businesses and everybody in the press is saying it's all the fault of Wall Street, you can't sit idly by and do nothing, but what you do is really important.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Wall, People

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• President Obama's executive actions give work permits and federal entitlement benefits to people illegally in America - in direct violation of the laws passed by Congress. This undermines the entire constitutional system of government.

  Donald Trump

  Government, Law, America

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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