Congress Quotes - Page 13

• Everyone cares for disabled people, right? What they don't care for are genuine civil rights for disabled people. MARY JOHNSON tells the tortuous, enraging story of how Congress enacted a law that instead of protecting against discrimination has turned 'the disabled' into a political punching bag.

  William Greider

  Rights, Law, People

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• Congress would give the people what they wanted if the people knew what they wanted, and if Congress could give it to them.

  Evan Esar

  People, Giving, Wanted

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• Next time a man tells you talk is cheap, ask him if he knows how much a session of Congress costs.

  Evan Esar

  Men, Cost, Next

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• A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school,preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not "studying a profession," for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Team, Fall, School

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.129, Penguin

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• I would a whole lot rather had Carly Fiorina over there doing our negotiation than John Kerry. Maybe we would've gotten a deal where we didn't give everything away. But the issue for us is to have a Congress that stands up and says not only no, but "Hell no" to this money going to a [Iran] regime that is going to use it for terror...

  Rick Perry

  Iran, Issues, Giving

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• What are the moral implications? What do these people do when they have tremendous amounts of money? They use that money to perpetuate their own wealth and their own power. Every day, Congress works on behalf of big-money interests.

  Bernie Sanders

  People, Use, Moral

  "A Socialist in the Millionaires’ Club: An Interview with Bernie Sanders". Interview with Ames Ridgeway, www.motherjones.com. November 20, 2006.

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• When you don't have as much debt as we do, we don't have to worry about having this debt ceiling fight every single year. And I really think people are getting sick of having this news cycle every single year from Congress, from the Washington bubble.

  Katie Pavlich

  Fighting, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I think that Goldman Sachs and the Pentagon determine more of America's outcome then any president or any congress, that sounds a bit cynical, but I think I am right.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, America, Cynical

  Interview with Danny Stygion, www.sinicalmagazine.com. October 1, 2011.

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• The function of traditional history is to create a citizenry that looks to the top - the president, Congress, the Supreme Court - to make the important decisions. That's what traditional history is all about: the laws that were passed, the decisions made by the court. So much of history is built around "the great men." All of that is very anti-democratic.

  Howard Zinn

  Men, Law, Decision

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• A man or a woman who serves the country with all his or her heart stands on par with the tallest Congress-man.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Heart, Men

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• A bogus Congress register can never lead you to Swaraj any more than a paper boat can help you to sail across the Padma.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Paper, Helping, Boat

  Mahatma Gandhi (1939). “Collected Works”

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• For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain from.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Differences, Fundamentals, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Raghavan Iyer (1987). “The moral and political writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-violent resistance and social transformation”

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• We had so many different presidents, including Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln - there were other founders like Hamilton, Adams - who made it very clear that the courts can't make a law. The Constitution is expressly clear that that's a power reserved to Congress.

  Mike Huckabee

  Law, President, Different

  "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. September 6, 2015.

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• The Constitution, in addition to delegating certain enumerated powers to Congress, places whole areas outside the reach of Congress' regulatory authority. The First Amendment, for example, is fittingly celebrated for preventing Congress from "prohibiting the free exercise" of religion or "abridging the freedom of speech." The Second Amendment similarly appears to contain an express limitation on the government's authority.

  Clarence Thomas

  Exercise, Government, Freedom Of Speech

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• In explaining the Constitution, James Madison, the acknowledged father of the Constitution, wrote in Federalist Paper 45: 'The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the Federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peach, negotiation, and foreign commerce.' Has the Constitution been amended to permit Congress to tax, spend and regulate as it pleases or have Americans said, 'To hell with the Constitution'?

  Walter E. Williams

  Father, War, Government

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• The people can change Congress but only God can change the Supreme Court.

  George W. Norris

  People, Court, Supreme

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• Most Americans, who think Congress has a right to do anything for which they can get a majority vote, ignore the clearly written constitutional restraints on Congress.

  Walter E. Williams

  Thinking, Majority Vote, Restraint

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• Once Congress establishes that one person can live at the expense of another, it pays for everyone to try to do so.

  Walter E. Williams

  Trying, That One Person, Pay

  Walter E. Williams (2013). “Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism: Controversial Essays”, p.107, Hoover Press

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• When Congress votes for all sorts of benefits, without voting for enough taxes to pay for them, they get the support of those who have been promised the benefits, without getting grief from the taxpayers. It's strictly win-win as far as the welfare-state politicians are concerned. But it is strictly lose-lose, big-time, for the country, as deficits skyrocket.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Grief, Winning

  "Political Statistics". townhall.com. April 05, 2011.

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• Could Congress really do its work if it held its sessions by teleconferencing? Could the Supreme Court? Nothing can replace the spark of intelligence that travels from person to person at meetings.

  Ben Stein

  Sparks, Court, Meetings

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• Too much screaming in Congress. Too much screaming everywhere.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Too Much

  Jeffery Deaver (2011). “Edge: A Novel”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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• Do you remember the good ol' days when Congress was only unsafe if you were an intern.

  David Letterman

  Remember, Good Ol Days, Unsafe

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• Assimilating college sports into the university would prevent them from being run as autonomies or fiefdoms. And you don't need an NCAA bylaw or an act of Congress to do it - just an active, empowered faculty and some administrators with backbone.

  Sally Jenkins

  Sports, Running, College

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• Glossed over the disastrous war and its multibillion-dollar price tag and implied again that our presence in Iraq is somehow improving the situation in that chaotic and turbulent country. The Congress must stand up against Bush's plan to escalate the war.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, War, Price Tag

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

  Steve King

  Needs, Amnesty, Pins

  "Conservatives at CPAC Rally for Border Enforcement" by Kelley Beaucar Vlahos, www.foxnews.com. February 10, 2011.

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