Congress Quotes - Page 7

• Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage.

  Mary McCarthy

  Political, Speech, Fancy

  Mary McCarthy (1964). “The humanist in the bathtub”

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• What standards are upheld by the scientific community affect the community internally, and also affect its relations with society at large, including Congress.

  Serge Lang

  Community, Standards, Relation

  Serge Lang (2012). “Challenges”, p.243, Springer Science & Business Media

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• They all agree, they are all unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the rostrum, in the sanctuary - everywhere they declare that slavery shall not go into the Territories.

  Robert Toombs

  Sanctuary, Slavery, Territory

  Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.8

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• All human life at every stage of its development is worthy of protection.

  Marco Rubio

  Development, Protection, Human Life

  Marco Rubio during GOP primary debate at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, time.com. August 7, 2015.

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• Why are deadly weapons being sold to those who plan to inflict untold suffering on individuals and society? Sadly, the answer, as we all know, is simply for money: money that is drenched in blood, often innocent blood. In the face of this shameful and culpable silence, it is our duty to confront the problem and to stop the arms trade.

  Pope Francis

  Blood, Silence, Suffering

  Address to a Joint Meeting of the U.S. Congress, delivered 24 September 2015, Washington, D.C.

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• The fight against poverty and hunger must be fought constantly and on many fronts, especially in its causes.

  Pope Francis

  Fighting, Poverty, Causes

  Address to a Joint Meeting of the U.S. Congress, delivered 24 September 2015, Washington, D.C.

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• Fundamental relationships are being called into question, as is the very basis of marriage and the family. I can only reiterate the importance and, above all, the richness and the beauty of family life.

  Pope Francis

  Fundamentals, Family Life, Importance

  Address to a Joint Meeting of the U.S. Congress, delivered 24 September 2015, Washington, D.C.

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• I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

  Victor Hugo

  Funny, Horse, Women

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• If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one.

  James Madison

  Government, Done, Constitution

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.31, University of Virginia Press

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• Deficits, as I've often said, aren't caused by too little taxing, they're caused by too much spending. Presidents can't appropriate a dollar of tax payers money, only Congressmen can; and Congress is susceptible to all sorts of influences that have nothing to do with good government.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, President, Dollars

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• Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.

  George Will

  Political, Liberty, Libertarian

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• Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms.

  Bill Frist

  Thinking, Waiting, Should

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• Lobbyists have more offices in Washington than the President. You see, the President only tells Congress what they should do. Lobbyists tell'em what they will do.

  Will Rogers

  Government, Office, President

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• We are here simply to decide whether Congress should take the taxpayer dollars of millions of pro-life Americans and use them to fund the destruction of human embryos for research.

  Mike Pence

  Pro Life, Dollars, Use

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Congress, after years of stalling, finally got around to clearing the way for informal discussions that might lead to possible formal talks that could potentially produce some kind of tenative agreements.

  Dave Barry

  Agreement, Years, Might

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• I think President Obama is trying to deceive the public in pretending that he was not a part of Congress that has made some decisions in the past that got us to where we are today.

  Sarah Palin

  Past, Thinking, Hype

  "Sarah Palin Talks Immigration, Economy and Political Future". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. August 01, 2010.

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• President Obama signed a bill preventing members of Congress from profiting from insider trading. Didn't you think that was already illegal?

  Jay Leno

  Thinking, President, Bills

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• Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows.

  Bernard DeVoto

  Stupid, Race, Government

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• It was an attempt to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye.

  George P. Shultz

  Kings, Eye, Aggravation

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• Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Goal, Focus, Effort

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• Members of Congress must live according to the same laws as everyone else.

  Bobby Jindal

  Law, Members

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• Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.

  William J. Brennan

  Aggravation, Flow, Disease

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• During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.

  Al Gore

  Stupid, Technology, Creating

  "Who Invented the Internet? (It Wasn’t Al Gore)". "Glenn Beck Program", September 15, 2016.

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• I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Compassion, Profile, Institutions

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• I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Army, Aggravation

  Remark to his son, G. W. Custis Lee, in March 1865. South Atlantic Quarterly, July 1927.

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