Congress Quotes - Page 20

• [Donald Trump] is going to be tainted by scandal. Congress hangs by just three Republican votes. If he loses three Republicans, you're going to see investigations, subpoenas.

  Norman L. Eisen

  Three, Scandal, Vote

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• On the question of opposition, I think there are - when you want to send a signal if you're on the Democratic side that this is a very right wing cabinet at odds with so much of what [Donald] Trump said. And it's also going to be fascinating to see if your Republican Party in the congress actually goes along with those aspects of the Trump plan that are designed to raise wages.

  E. J. Dionne

  Party, Thinking, Wings

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I think the Congress is elected by people, it represents the people, and works for their interest. The first question that they should ask themselves : what do wars give America, since Vietnam till now ? Nothing. No political gain, no economic gain, no good reputation.

  Bashar al-Assad

  War, Thinking, America

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• This war [in Syria] is going to support Al-Qaeda and the same people that killed Americans in the 11th of September. The second thing that we want to tell Congress, that they should ask and that what we expect them to ask this administration about the evidence that they have regarding the chemical story and allegations that they presented.

  Bashar al-Assad

  War, People, Support

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• During the terrorist regime in Haiti in the 1990s, the CIA, under the administration of Bill Clinton, was reporting to Congress that oil shipments had been blocked from entering Haiti. That was just a lie. I was there. You could see the oil terminals being built and the ships coming in.

  Noam Chomsky

  Lying, Oil, Entering

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• The truth is that America has been closely divided politically for quite some time. That was reflected in some of the challenges I had with the Republican Congress.

  Barack Obama

  America, Challenges, Republican

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Write letters to your editors, write to your members of Congress, and write to your news stations.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Writing, Editors, News

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I don't understand why every single person in Congress isn't standing up and going, "He [Donald Trump] is in bed with Russia." And then they could just lock their arms and not let him in.

  Jen Kirkman

  Russia, Bed, Locks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• [Congress] can just make [Mitt] Romney president. And we'd be like, "All right, fine."

  Jen Kirkman

  President, Fine, Romney

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The commitment to international agreements is embodied, it's found in the U.S. Constitution. Article Six of the U.S. Constitution provides that treaties of the United States are part of the supreme law of the land along with the constitution itself and laws passed by Congress. Well, the US government certainly has not been acting in recent years as if treaties were part of the supreme law of the land.

  John Burroughs

  Commitment, Law, Land

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• When the ACLU took my case and we got a ruling I think, for the first time, they could - the Congress could put out the report internally but they couldn't put it out at taxpayers' expense around the country. And I felt odd about that because I, in a way, I was interfering with free speech, but then, you can't always win.

  Nat Hentoff

  Country, Thinking, Winning

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• The immigration bill - the new immigration bill - [Bill Clinton] has stripped the courts, which Congress can do under the leadership of the president, so that people who had a right to asylum or to petition - for asylum who were legal residents are now unable to go through because that part of the bill has been taken out.

  Nat Hentoff

  Taken, People, President

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• President Obama projects a strong offense, but he faces a rebellious Congress focused on state's rights.

  Jesse Jackson

  Strong, Rights, President

  Source: praisecharlotte.hellobeautiful.com

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• Just the fact that we can't pass budgets in our Congress, just the fact that we are gridlocked in our own democracy, the fact that everybody who travels can see that we're not investing in our airports, in our rail, in our infrastructure and so forth, people are noticing a United States that is not getting the job done in some ways.

  John F. Kerry

  Jobs, Airports, People

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• The fact that there is a robust debate in Congress is good. The fact that the debate sometimes seems unanchored to facts is not so good.

  Barack Obama

  Facts, Sometimes, Debate

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• In the past, there have been a range of treaties that divided Congress and every administration was able to get them through.

  Barack Obama

  Past, Able, Administration

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I think raising wages, investing in infrastructure, making sure that people have access to good educations that equip them for the jobs of the future. Those are all agenda items that would help alleviate some of those economic pressures and dislocations that people are experiencing. The problem was I couldn't convince the Republican Congress to pass a lot of them.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  Source: time.com

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• Congress is hard to deal with, dealing with, you know, multiple parliaments and commissions and unions and this and that and the other, that's very complicated.

  Barack Obama

  Unions, Complicated, Parliament

  Source: time.com

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• For Democrats who are feeling completely discouraged, I've been trying to remind them, everybody remembers my Boston speech in 2004. They may not remember me showing up here in 2005 when John Kerry had lost a close election, Tom Daschle, the leader of the Senate, had been beaten in an upset. Ken Salazar and I were the only two Democrats that won nationally. Republicans controlled the Senate and the House, and two years later, Democrats were winning back Congress, and four years later I was President of the United States.

  Barack Obama

  Winning, Boston, Years

  "President Obama’s first press conference of the Trump era, annotated". www.washingtonpost.com. November 14, 2016.

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• I can't imagine that I would be asked that by the president-elect [Donald Trump], or then-president [Barack Obama]. But it's - I'm very clear. I voted for the change that put the Army Field Manual in place as a member of Congress. I understand that law very, very quickly and am also deeply aware that any changes to that will come through Congress and the president.

  James Mattis

  Army, Law, Congress And The President

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The repealing and replacing of Obamacare is very complicated. It is what a White House and congressional leadership, serious White House and serious congressional leadership, should meet on and work on and figure out a strategy of, and it may work and it may not. Obviously not every administration gets things through, even when they have much larger majorities in congress and a much larger popular vote than Donald Trump had.

  William Kristol

  Obamacare, White, Popular Vote

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I'm not so optimistic as to think that you would ever be able to garner a majority of an American Congress that would make those kinds of investments above and beyond the kinds of investments that could be made in a progressive program for lifting up all people.

  Barack Obama

  Optimistic, Thinking, People

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• I don't think it is the most important thing. I think it is the fact that the director of national intelligence gave a false statement to Congress under oath, which is a felony. If we allow our officials to knowingly break the law publicly and face no consequences, we're instituting a culture of immunity, and this is what I think historically will actually be considered the biggest disappointment of the [Barack] Obama administration.

  Edward Snowden

  Disappointment, Thinking, Law

  Interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen, www.thenation.com. October 28, 2014.

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• If Congress is going to investigate baseball players about whether or not they told the truth, how can we justify giving the most powerful intelligence official, [James] Clapper, a pass? This is how J. Edgar Hoover ended up in charge of the FBI forever.

  Edward Snowden

  Baseball, Powerful, Player

  Interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen, www.thenation.com. October 28, 2014.

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• The chairs [in Congress] are part of the "Gang of Eight." They get briefed on every covert-action program and everything like that. They know where all the bodies are buried. At the same time, they get far more campaign donations than anybody else from defense contractors, from intelligence corporations, from private military companies.

  Edward Snowden

  Military, Eight, Defense

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