George W. Bush Quotes

Congress is a culture and I would love to be part of it.

I never dread going back to Congress.

I have a Congress on my hands.

Congresscritters

I wish I could set deadlines for the Congress, but that's just not the way the Constitution is written.

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.

The Congress is not a court of law but it is a court of public opinion.

Towering over Presidents and State Governors, over Congress and State Legislatures, over conventions and the vast machinery of party, public opinion stands out in the United States, as the great source of Power.

From time to time we must remind ourselves that the President has a role in the legislative process.

If the Congress fails then American democracy is dysfunctional.

You have 435 people in the United States House of Representatives trying to get along.

I am a U.S. senator from North Carolina. I'm worried about doing the business on the Capitol Hill. I'm not going to get into the parlor games and the political discussions about a separate and co-equal branch.

Elected presidents are for countries.

Congress should get the job done.

The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.

Most senators are just going to work and trying to do a job.

I don't order laws, I propose them.

Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution.

Congress, even with its frustrations, is the greatest instrument for justice and human welfare in the world.

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

Everyone in Congress represents Washington.

That could have been a very successful Presidency had President Nixon really believed in our system.

Bernard Baruch is the acting President of the United States.

Governments propose, and oppositions dispose.

You can't have your own way in Congress.