US Congress, U.S. Congress Quotes

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

I had ordered an efficient military force to take a position between the Nueces and the Del Norte. This had become necessary to meet a threatened invasion of Texas by the Mexican forces, for which extensive military preparations had been made. The invasion was threatened solely because Texas had determined, in accordance with a solemn resolution of the Congress of the United States, to annex herself to our Union, and under these circumstances it was plainly our duty to extend our protection over her citizens and soil.

Congress doesn’t do comprehensive well.

Congress needs to work in a bipartisan way to fix the Affordable Care Act, not repeal it.

The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.

It's taken over 240 years for there to be a Native American woman elected to congress, so it's definitely significant that we were able to accomplish that.

For most governors, we find the United States Senate or the United States Congress very frustrating at the slow pace in which they act. There doesn't seem to be a lot of discipline and organization to what they do.

It was President [Bill] Clinton and the United States congress in 1998 which said that the regime has to be changed because the regime would not give up its weapons of mass destruction. We came into office in 2001 and kept that policy because Saddam Hussein had not changed.

Congress constitutionally lacks general police powers.

Since 2000, Republican policies have suppressed Democratic voting; since 2010, Republican gerrymandering has given the Republicans a heavy systematic advantage in Congress; and the last two Republican presidents have won the White House while losing the popular vote to their opponents.

Comprehensive immigration reform should be debated and passed by Congress.

Do I have comedy writers? Of course I have writers—535 of them—100 in the Senate and 435 in the House.

I am the first podiatrist to serve in the U.S. Congress.

At face value, the U.S. Congress, there is a - they have a long way to go before they fully appreciate and understand Iranian people.

Anybody that brings up amnesty in this Congress, we need to just take the scarlet 'A' for amnesty and pin it on them.

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

I would love to meet with the Black Caucus, it's great, the Congressional Black Caucus, I think it's great.

Paul Ryan wants to get health care repaired and certainly Dan Donovan wants to.

The reason given by the President in asking Congress to declare war against Germany is that the German government has declared certain war zones, within which, by the use of submarines, she sinks, without notice, American ships and destroys American lives.

Select Committee of the House and Senate on the Insurrectionary States

Paul Ryan's in for Paul Ryan.

There is no getting around it; Congress is failing the American people.

It's very important that the determination of the US Congress to do what is is needed be made evident this week and by the actions of most of the members. I mean, you're not going to get total assent.

If the House Republicans want to repeal the Affordable Care Act, they should make their case to the American people and elect a president and a majority in both Houses of Congress prepared to do that.

Benjamin Netanyahu, understands that the standing ovation he got in Congress this year was not for his politics. That ovation was bought and paid for by the Israel lobby.