Congress Quotes - Page 21

• When we look at how, constitutionally, only Congress can declare war, and that is routinely ignored. Not NATO or the UN, but Congress has to authorize these endless wars, and it isn't.

  Edward Snowden

  War, Looks, Ignored

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• The tea party had a lot of nasty tactics that were needlessly aggressive and petty and scary. But they proved it is indeed possible for a committed, relatively small number of folks across the country to make Congress listen to them and to slow and stop an agenda.

  Ezra G. Levin

  Country, Party, Small Numbers

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• You have to be local. You have to focus on your local members of Congress.

  Ezra G. Levin

  Focus, Members, Locals

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• Members of Congress care about reelection most of all. And that means they care about their constituents. So you have to be a constituent to make your voice heard.

  Ezra G. Levin

  Mean, Voice, Reelection

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• The bottom line is that every single member of Congress has to get voted into office every two or six years. That means they need to look really good in their home district and state. That means good local press. That means people in their district thinking, "Man, I really don't like Congress, but I like Senator Bob."

  Ezra G. Levin

  Home, Mean, Men

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• I really do not think there is a serious split between Republicans and Democrats in Congress in how responsive they are to constituents.

  Ezra G. Levin

  Thinking, Splits, Serious

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• Stiffening the spine of progressive members of Congress is crucial.

  Ezra G. Levin

  Progressive, Spine, Members

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• We're now more than a year since my NSA revelations, and despite numerous hours of testimony before Congress, despite tons of off-the-record quotes from anonymous officials who have an ax to grind, not a single US official, not a single representative of the United States government, has ever pointed to a single case of individualized harm caused by these revelations. This, despite the fact that former NSA director Keith Alexander said this would cause grave and irrevocable harm to the nation.

  Edward Snowden

  Years, Nsa, Government

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• I believe we accomplished a lot of good things while I was in office. We maintained a very good working relationship with both Republicans and Democrats during my tenure. Consequently, we had a very high batting average in dealing with Congress on some very controversial issues. Plus, we kept our nation at peace,
  we obeyed the law, and we told the truth.

  Jimmy Carter

  Believe, Law, Issues

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• My career in Congress is a story of before Sandy Hook and after Sandy Hook.

  Chris Murphy

  Careers, Hook, Stories

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There will be a focus on infrastructure. The American people had elected a builder to be President of the United States. We're going to work with members of Congress to move forward legislation to fund our infrastructure more effectively in the country.

  Mike Pence

  Country, Moving, People

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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• Republicans in Congress have already taken the initial steps to start repealing the Affordable Care Act. Democrats are hoping to at the very least slow that process down by rallying public support for the health care law.

  Rachel Martin

  Taken, Law, Support

  "Democrats Rally In Dozens Of Cities To Oppose Obamacare Repeal", bpr.org. January 16, 2017.

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• President Barack Obama couldn't bring everything into existence through Congress. Because from the day that he was elected president of the United States, the United States Congress, many of the Republicans met, and they declared that they would never allow his legislative program to succeed. And for eight years they fought him.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Eight, Years, President

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• We've got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.

  Al Sharpton

  Years, Two, Balance

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• We`re the ones who can fire [Donald Trump]. We`re the ones who can fire members of congress.

  Joe Madison

  Fire, Trump, Members

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• You put the republican members of congress who are up for re-election, and quite candidly, the democrats, because every democratic congressperson ought to be writing, tweeting, and you put them on notice. We are the boss of this government, not the [Donald] Trump.

  Joe Madison

  Writing, Government, Boss

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I think, from a progressive point of view, to have a Democratic Congress and a Democratic White House, and to have spent the time on Obamacare, which had real benefits, 20 million insured, but not on inequality, was a major cost to the Democratic Party, costing them their majorities, but also a bit of a cost to the country, because it didn't address the fundamental issues that led to Donald Trump and that led to a lot of unhappiness, just the continued widening inequality.

  David Brooks

  Country, Real, Party

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The Republicans in Congress, they believe in Ronald Reagan's Republican Party, not Donald Trump Republican Party or Steve Bannon's Republican Party.

  David Brooks

  Party, Believe, Republican

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think the whole dynamic is different. Whereas in [Barack] Obama's case, even though there was no incumbent, he was able to run against eight years of Bush-Cheney and a Republican Congress, and everyone was tired of everything. He was able to benefit from that.

  William Kristol

  Running, Tired, Thinking

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• What I said to the members [of Congress] who hoped they would be chairmen: let's don't have that problem. Be thinking now about legislation that you have, preferably that enjoys some Democratic support because we certainly didn't think we were going to have 60 and we don't.

  Mitch McConnell

  Thinking, Support, Would Be

  Source: www.rollcall.com

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• I think there were two messages in last year's election. One is pretty obvious. People were mad as hell at the president [Barack Obama] - and wanted to send a message. We all got that. Our new members were also hearing, and I was hearing as well, that people didn't like the fact that the Congress was dysfunctional. Now they may have been confused about where the dysfunctionality was cause the president kept pointing to the House. Factually, that's not accurate. The dysfunction was in the Senate.

  Mitch McConnell

  Confused, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.rollcall.com

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• I spent more time talking with this president [Donald Trump] in the last few days, I think, than I probably talked with this last president [Barack Obama] in the last six months. So this is something that he is working very closely hand in glove with congress.

  Paul Ryan

  Thinking, Hands, Talking

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Speaker [Paul] Ryan made clear that the Republican congress agrees with [Donald Trump], and [building a wall] that`s something that should be done.

  Mark Halperin

  Wall, Done, Republican

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• Aren't we supposed to believe that if you are an elected official, if you serve in Congress, you are representing all the people of your district not just the people who voted for you, not [just] the people who you agree with?

  David Duke

  Believe, People, Agree

  "Dr. Duke on CNN: Hear the UNCENSORED FULL Interview Here". CNN Interview, davidduke.com. January 5, 2015.

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• Every member Congress is under the threat of being destroyed by the Israeli lobby.

  David Duke

  Members, Threat, Israeli

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