Congress Members Quotes

A lot of members of Congress are isolated. They tend to be affluent. They tend to have a lot of people doing things for them. So sometimes they don't understand what their constituents are feeling.

What is required from members of Congress and the public alike is a new spirit of devotion to the national welfare beyond party or self-interest.

It is worth noting that Steve King of Iowa is far from the only Republican member of Congress to offer cover to white nationalists.

We [members of Congress] tend to be gregarious or we tend not to get elected.

Most people who serve in Congress just want to do the right thing.

Harry Reid is not funny; he's creepy. Nancy Pelosi is creepy. Charles Schumer is sneaky and creepy.

A local spirit will infallibly prevail much more in the members of Congress than a national spirit will prevail in the legislatures of the particular States.

Force members of Congress to be here four or five days a week—to be here full time as legislators.

Every member in Congress has a seat, and they deserve a seat at the table.

As Members of Congress we can now engage with our constituents via online innovations like the Huffington Post, while a small business in rural Oregon can use the Internet to find customers around the world.

The assumption has to be that members of Congress are, like eunuchs in a harem, physically incapable of a conflict of interest.

Certainly there are many Congress members who have been arrested in the past on immigration issues and will continue to because we all understand that staying silent is not an option.

Typically, members of Congress don't just hear a story about a program and indicate whether they support it or not.

We´re opening a process against 15% of Congress members. I wonder if in any other part of the world such a massive inquiry in democracy has taken place. This means we´re beginning an in depth cleaning operation to recover the prestige of the Brazilian Legislative which has never had its image so tarnished.

There's no assigned seats in the House. I spent the first couple months just getting to know my Congress. So I kind of wander around.

The two great political parties of the nation have existed for the purpose, each in accordance with its own principles, of undertaking to serve the interests of the whole nation. Their members of the Congress are chosen with that great end in view.

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

Democrats are a big-tent party. You know, I'm not trying to impose an ideology on all, you know, several hundred members of Congress.

Members of Congress are less beasts of accumulating burden than computational machines designed to win re-election. Their sense of their own political interests is acute.

Members of Congress like us for our information, but they love us for our money.

Members of Congress are never in town any more. They’re so busy raising money that they leave Thursday night and don’t return till Monday night. Tuesday through Thursday are now long days, so there is no time anymore for bipartisan socialization.

With the exception of members of Congress and their families, and instructors in civics and constitutional lawyers, I do not believe there are two percent of the American people who know that a member of Congress is elected one year and does not take his office until 13 months afterwards.

I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate.

Members of Congress wear two hats: one as Washington legislator, the other as listener and community leader back home.

There have been 2000 Americans who have served in Congress. The people who serve in Congress are no better nor no worse than those in any other American institution.