Congress Quotes - Page 39

• Health care for all Americans is the most pressing domestic issue today. It's far past time for the President and Congress to deliver health care to everyone.

  Russ Feingold

  Past, Issues, President

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• If I were in Congress in 1996, I would have voted for the Defense of Marriage Act, which used Congress's constitutional authority to define what official state documents other states have to recognize under the Full Faith and Credit Clause, to ensure that no state would be forced to recognize a 'same sex' marriage license issued in another state.

  Ron Paul

  Sex, Would Be, Defense

  "The Federal Marriage Amendment Is a Very Bad Idea". www.lewrockwell.com. October 1, 2004.

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• Get rid of the guns. We had the Second Amendment that said you have the right to bear arms. I haven't seen the British really coming by my house looking for it. And besides, the right to bear arms is not an absolute right anyway, as New York's Sullivan Law proves. We talk about ourselves as a violent society, and some of that is right and some of it is claptrap. But I think if you took away the guns, and I mean really take away the guns, not what Congress is doing now, you would see that violent society diminish considerably.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  New York, Mean, Thinking

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• When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out.

  Tammy Baldwin

  People, Firsts, Ran

  "Democratic U.S. Rep. Baldwin Joins Wisconsin Senate Race". www.foxnews.com. September 06, 2011.

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• Serving in Congress is like having a second shot at high school.

  Barney Frank

  School, Political, Shots

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• This Congress is out of control and in desperate need of adult supervision.

  Jeff Flake

  Political, Adults, Needs

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• Congress will always couple one bad idea with another, the better to 'offset' them.

  Jeffery Taylor

  Couple, Ideas, Political

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• A one-hour work-week...would minimize the damage that Congress can do.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Political, Damage, Week

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• To say Congress is spending like drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors.

  Ronald Reagan

  Political, Politics, Sailor

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• Congress' passing of the omnibus spending bill without reading it shows more than anything why they can't be trusted.

  Neal Boortz

  Reading, Political, Bills

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• Try walking the halls of Congress. It's Abercrombie & Fitch meets the Hair Club for Men. Lots of really photogenic young people kissing up to lots of insufferable blowhards. Separated by one or two generations, most of these players have only one real thing in common: They have never been weaned from the public teat. The closest they've ever come to meeting a payroll is when they come together to spend everyone else's payroll taxes.

  Michelle Malkin

  Real, Kissing, Player

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• If there's a distinct group of Americans who harbor open contempt for constitutional principles and rule of law, it's lawyers, judges and members of Congress.

  Walter E. Williams

  Law, Judging, Political

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• Overreaction is one of the things that congress specializes in. I can't think of anything congress does better than overreact.

  Fred Barnes

  Thinking, Political, Doe

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• Congress is a Mafia running a protection racket.. .

  John P. Wheeler III

  Running, Political, Mafia

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• No one talks about the real ethics disaster in Washington. It's that many members of Congress will listen to any argument against a bill except for two: that it's not moral or that it's not Constitutional.

  Ron Paul

  Real, Two, Political

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• There are people in Congress who aren't very bright. In fact, some of them are just plain brain-dead.

  Neal Boortz

  People, Political, Brain

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• And what a congress of stinks!- Roots ripe as old bait, Pulpy stems, rank, silo-rich, Leaf mold, manure, lime, piled against slippery planks, Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt kept breathing a small breath.

  Theodore Roethke

  Life, Giving Up, Breathing

  1948 The Lost Son,'Root Cellar'.

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• Dear Mr. President: ... We urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraq sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs.

  Joe Lieberman

  Wmds In Iraq, Mass Destruction, Air

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• This body, the United States Congress, was united, Republicans and Democrats alike, in taking that action, toppling the Taliban government, and working to try and root out al Qaeda and find Osama bin Laden.

  Chris Van Hollen

  Government, Roots, Trying

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• To help U.S. workers, farmers and businesses, and Americas long-term economic security, Congress should take decisive action to bring about fair trade with China, instead of squandering this opportunity on a weak Republican bill.

  Joe Baca

  Opportunity, Long, Bills

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• Euphemisms, vague terminology or calls for discussions with Turkey to get at the truth are just some of the dodges Congress and the administration have used to avoid Turkish discomfort with its Ottoman past.

  Adam Schiff

  Past, Turkeys, Ottomans

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• Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry

  Laura Ingraham

  Thinking, People, Folks

  "Laura Ingraham Throws Down With Matt Lauer on Today". "Monday's Today" with Matt Lauer, www.newsbusters.org. March 29, 2010.

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• The Bush Administration and the Congress have to stop ignoring this crisis in international trade. The longer we ignore it, the more American jobs will move overseas. It's just that simple.

  Byron Dorgan

  Jobs, Moving, Simple

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• There is a lot of lip service paid in this Congress and downtown at the White House about family values and small business. Who better represents family values and small business than the fishermen and women on the Oregon and California coast.

  Peter DeFazio

  California Coast, Oregon, White

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• Whether ours shall be a government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people.

  Archibald Cox

  Men, Law, People

  Statement, 20 Oct. 1973. Cox had just been dismissed by President Richard M. Nixon because he refused to drop his lawsuit to obtain Watergaterelated White House tapes. See John Adams 4; Gerald Ford 3; James Harrington 1

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