Congress Quotes - Page 24

• Bankers themselves govern the Fed to some extent, and then there's the classic revolving door where Fed officials come from and then go back to the financial sector. Fed officials tend to believe that the institution should have a large measure of independence from democratic control, even though in law it is under the ostensible control of Congress.

  Gerald Epstein

  Believe, Doors, Should Have

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The extremely low respect Congress enjoys among the population indicates that the citizens understand broadly what's going on. But the lack of a realistic political reform path leads to apathy and the kind of mindless frustration that manifests itself in the Tea Party-style hatred of any and all government.

  Thomas Pogge

  Party, Frustration, Government

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The president's [Donald Trump] approval rating is much higher than the media's approval rating and Congress' approval rating, for that matter.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Approval Rating, Media, President

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• One of the things that I've urged the president-elect to do is to develop a strong working relationship with the intelligence community and I think it's important that Congress, on a bipartisan basis.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, Thinking, Community

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I think that the risk to all the progress we've made was at stake in the election because not just the president-elect but a lot of members of Congress, including now the Speaker of the House and the Senate majority leader, have said that their principal agenda was to undo a lot of this progress. But as I've been talking about over the last several days when it comes to health care, the gains that we've made are there. Twenty million people have health insurance that didn't have it before. The uninsured rate is the lowest it's ever been.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Talking, Majority Leader

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I think Republicans now are recognizing that [Obamacare cancellation] may not be what the American people, including even [Donald] Trump voters, are looking for. And my hope is that the president-elect, members of Congress from both parties look at, "Where have we objectively made progress, where things are working better?" Don't undo things just because I did them. I don't have pride of authorship.

  Barack Obama

  Party, Pride, Thinking

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Congress doesn't hate Congress.

  Jack Abramoff

  Hate

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• I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They're sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they're hitting back and forth.

  Neil Armstrong

  Games, White, Space

  "Neil Armstrong's last interview: rare glimpse of man and moon mission" by Paul Gallagher, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2012.

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• The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and to the increase of our sanitary knowledge for such purposes deserve attention of Congress.

  Chester A. Arthur

  People, Attention, Purpose

  Chester A. Arthur (2006). “State of the Union Addresses”, p.23, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people are going to fully appreciate what this reform is if we pass it and implement it and it becomes not a caricature but a reality, and I still believe that. So I think it will be easier to sell it moving forward than it was to this point.

  David Axelrod

  Believe, Moving, Reality

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• During my first term in Congress, I signed a pledge that I will take no more earmarks and I've been faithful to that pledge.

  Michele Bachmann

  Faithful, Firsts, Term

  "Rep. Michele Bachmann Talks Earmarks, Obamacare and Gay Marriage; Sen. Kyl on Debt Talks". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. June 26, 2011.

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• I was in the Minnesota state Senate from 2000 until 2006. In 2006, I was urged to run for Congress, I did. And I've been here ever since.

  Michele Bachmann

  Running, Minnesota, States

  "'Hannity' Primary Part 2: Michele Bachmann". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. July 01, 2011.

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• I think it's important that people know what raising the debt ceiling is. It's Congress giving permission to the federal government to borrow more money that we don't have, and we borrow it for the purpose of spending it.

  Michele Bachmann

  Thinking, Government, People

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• I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out, are they pro-America or anti-America? I think people would be - would love to see an expose like that.

  Michele Bachmann

  Thinking, Views, Media

  "Blunder May Cost Rep. Bachmann Minnesota Race". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. October 31, 2008.

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• I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.

  Birch Bayh

  Voting Age, People, Vietnam

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• Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience. Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David Letterman have made fun of their elected officials.

  Evan Bayh

  Sports, Country, Baseball

  "Why I’m Leaving the Senate" by Evan Bayh, www.nytimes.com. February 20, 2010.

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• Memo to Congress: America's problem is not that government is too small. It's the spending, stupid!

  Bob Beauprez

  Stupid, Government, America

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• No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages.

  Judy Biggert

  Children, Issues, Age

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• Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king. And chicken soon joined them on the throne. It was during this period that the cycle of dietary and planetary destruction began, the thing we're only realizing just now.

  Mark Bittman

  Kings, Corn, Collaboration

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• You look at my audience, and it proves what Congress thinks America is, is wrong. I get people across the political spectrum. Parents and kids come and they're all punked out, and there are these other guys in John Deere caps.

  Lewis Black

  Kids, Thinking, America

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• If a hurricane strikes, we can blame the president for not being there; we can blame Congress and FEMA; we can blame the state governments; but in the end, it's the mayors and the local city governments that have to be prepared for emergencies and be prepared to act.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Government, Cities, President

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• It's pretty clear that over the last three months the economy has paused. And it's also pretty clear the American people are still demanding and asking the question, 'Where are the jobs?' And the reason we don't have new jobs is because of the job-killing agenda pursued by President Obama and his allies in the Congress.

  John Boehner

  Jobs, People, New Job

  "Meet the Press" Interview, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 8, 2010.

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• Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening and we are dead serious about ending business as usual in Washington.

  John Boehner

  People, Broken, Listening

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• Well, as a former small businessperson - I understand what's going on, I think in the business community. And businesspeople around the country are looking at all the spending and all the debt. They're looking at all the policies coming out of this Congress and this administration the last two years, and they - it's created all this uncertainty.

  John Boehner

  Country, Thinking, Years

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• Pigs are smarter than dogs, and both are smarter than Congress.

  Elayne Boosler

  Dog, Pigs, Smarter

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