Congress Quotes - Page 11

• The presidents against Congress, the Senate is against the House, people are against politicians, and I'm against cats in the house.

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Cat, People, House

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• We've got a tax code that is encouraging flight of jobs and outsourcing. And that's why we've specifically recommended in this campaign that Congress change our tax code so that we stop giving tax breaks to companies that are moving to Mexico and China and other places, and start putting those tax breaks into companies that are investing here in the United States.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Moving, Giving

  Barack Obama and Alan Keyes Illinois Senate Debate hosted by Illinois Radio Network in the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois, www.keyesarchives.com. October 12, 2004.

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• So our focus has to be on the things that we can control, which is to take the necessary measures working with Congress to ensure that our economy grows, that we create jobs.

  Jay Carney

  Jobs, Focus, Economy

  "Despite Debt-Crisis Resolution, Wall Street Plummets Amid Economic Fears". www.foxnews.com. August 4, 2011.

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• We simply must look beyond partisan goals and find common ground as Americans. It is imperative that the Members of Congress recognize that partisanship will not serve the American people.

  Michael Dean Crapo

  People, Goal, Looks

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• Congress is headed in the wrong direction with this bill which removes any and all incentives from the food industry to improve their products for children.

  Bob Filner

  Children, Incentives, Bills

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

  Robert M. Gates

  Wish, Way, Constitution

  "Interview with Defense Secretary Robert Gates on 'Fox News Sunday'". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 20, 2010.

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• One of the big changes in the Congress since I first came to Washington is that all of these folks go home every weekend. They used to play golf together; their families got to know each other, go to dinner at each other's homes at weekends - and these would be people who were political adversaries.

  Robert M. Gates

  Home, Golf, Weekend

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• It is inexcusable for the White House and Congress to not even make the effort to find at least some offsets to this new spending, ... No one in America believes the federal government is operating at peak efficiency and can't tighten its belt.

  Tom Coburn

  Believe, Government, White

  "No Katrina sacrifice", www.cnn.com. September 15, 2005.

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• If Congress were to censure, fine or otherwise try to punish a president, it would dramatically alter the balance of power between the branches.

  Mike DeWine

  Balance, Trying, President

  "Could Clinton escape censure, too?". www.cnn.com. December 31, 1998.

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• I don't think there is anything this Congress could do more definitively to put people back to work, to stimulate our economy to increase our efficiency, our competitiveness, both nationally and internationally

  Peter DeFazio

  Thinking, People, Back To Work

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• [An] act of the Congress of the United States... which assumes powers... not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void and of no force.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Law, Void, United States

  Thomas Jefferson, H. A. Washington (2011). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private”, p.466, Cambridge University Press

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• If you give Congress a chance to vote on both sides of an issue, it will always do it.

  Les Aspin

  Humorous, Issues, Giving

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• Every new generation of LGBT Americans needs to be inspired by leaders who come out - whether in Congress, the nonprofit sector, the NFL, or corner offices of Fortune 100 companies.

  Anthony Romero

  Nfl, Office, Leader

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• The Trans Pacific Partnership (and fast-track authority to whisk it through Congress without debate) is fast approaching. If you haven't seen our video about it, please watch. If you have, please share. And mobilize and organize friends and colleagues to call their senators and representatives to tell them to vote against this reprehensible deal.

  Robert Reich

  Track, Watches, Video

  FaceBook post by Robert Reich from May 01, 2015

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• Congress has really set this thing up in a way that they absolve themselves of blame, They have their scapegoats. They can blame the Pentagon. They can blame BRAC. It's hard for voters to say this is Ortiz's fault.

  Juan Carlos I of Spain

  Voters, Way, Faults

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• One of the most important virtues of the American character is our ability to approach the complexities that life presents us with common sense and decency, .. The considered judgment of the American people is not going to rise or fall on the fine distinctions of a legal argument but on straight talk and the truth. It is time for the president and the Congress to follow that common sense for the good of the country.

  Dick Gephardt

  Country, Fall, Character

  "Top Democrats rip Clinton's defense strategy". www.cnn.com. September 14, 1998.

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• Money cannot be applied to the *general welfare*, otherwise than by an application of it to some *particular* measure conducive to the general welfare. Whenever, therefore, money has been raised by the general authority, and is to be applied to a particular measure, a question arises whether the particular measure be within the enumerated authorities vested in Congress. If it be, the money requisite for it may be applied to it; if it be not, no such application can be made.

  James Madison

  May, Welfare, Authority

  James Madison (1974). “The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: As Recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia in 1787 ...”

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• We applaud Congress for extending equitable abortion coverage to female Peace Corps volunteers.

  Cecile Richards

  Volunteer, Abortion, Female

  "Peace Corps Volunteers to Finally Receive Same Abortion Coverage as Federal Employees" by Caitlin Moscatello, www.glamour.com. December 15, 2014.

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• It is important that the remaining scenic areas of the country be at once made into State or National Parks. Fortunately there still are a number of these wild places, but it will require effort to save them. Each Park proposed will have powerful and insidious opposition. The insidious opposition to National Parks will say, ‘There is a feeling in Congress that we should not have any more National Parks at this time’; or, ‘We should wait until present ones are improved.’

  Enos Mills

  Country, Powerful, Wild Places

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• When ordinary Soviet citizens are told that a vital trade agreement awarding their country most-favoured-nation status with the US is being blocked in Congress because Soviet Jews are demanding as an absolute right something few other inhabitants can expect as a special privilege - then the result is likely to be spontaneous outbreaks of anti-Semitism.

  Alan Brien

  Country, Agreement, Special

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• If you tell Congress everything about the world situation, they get hysterical. If you tell them nothing, they go fishing.

  Harry S. Truman

  Fishing, World, Hysterical

  Harry S. Truman (1967). “The Quotable Harry S. Truman”, Anderson, S.C. : Droke House, distributed by Grosset & Dunlap

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• Members of the Congress, the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but partners for progress. We are all trustees for the American people, custodians of the American heritage. It is my task to report the State of the Union--to improve it is the task of us all.

  John F. Kennedy

  People, Progress, Custodians

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.5, Best Books on

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• Our Constitution wisely assigns both joint and separate roles to each branch of the government; and a President and a Congress who hold each other in mutual respect will neither permit nor attempt any trespass.

  John F. Kennedy

  Government, President, Roles

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.19, Best Books on

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• The First Amendment's language leaves no room for inference that abridgments of speech and press can be made just because they are slight. That Amendment provides, in simple words, that "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." I read "no law . . . abridging" to mean no law abridging.

  Hugo Black

  Mean, Simple, Law

  Concurring opinion, Smith v. California, 361 U.S. 147, 1959.

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• Citizenship is no light trifle to be jeopardized any moment Congress decides to do so under the name of one of its general or implied grants of power.

  Hugo Black

  Light, Names, Citizenship

  "Afroyim v. Rusk, 387 U.S. 267 - 68". 1967.

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