Congress Quotes - Page 16

• Obama was quite serious when he said he was going to change the world. And now he has a national crisis, a personal mandate, a pliant Congress, a desperate public - and, at his disposal, the greatest pot of money in galactic history.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Serious, World, Desperate

  "Obama the Centrist?". www.nationalreview.com. December 12, 2008.

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• I think the Supreme Court has, as an equal branch of government, the ability to overrule Congress and the president. But I also feel it's the role of the Congress and the president to push back. I mean I think it's important that they are understood as equal branches of government.

  Rick Santorum

  Mean, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• 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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• The little boy who goes to the store and forgets what his mother sent him for, will probably grow up to be a congressman.

  Evan Esar

  Mother, Growing Up, Boys

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• So the villains aren't gay-hating Islamists or women killing tyrants, but actually us: an American Congress bent on the apocalypse. Don't we understand? Iranians love their children too.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Children, Hate, Gay

  "Hollywood weighs in on Iran nuclear deal". "The Five" with Greg Gutfeld, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Julie Roginsky, Eric Bolling and Dana Perino, www.foxnews.com. July 29, 2015.

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• Every politician just has to remember how he got his position in the first place. A young candidate running for Congress or any outsider interested in public office could only achieve his goals by relying on soft power. They could not force anyone to vote for them. They needed to convince their potential voters, they needed to do fundraising, they needed to be attractive candidates.

  Joseph Nye

  Running, Fundraising, Goal

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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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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• I am willing to work with anybody who wants to have a serious conversation about our fiscal future. We're not going to do this under the threat of blowing up the entire economy. I will not negotiate over Congress' responsibility to pay the bills that have already been racked up. I don't know how I can be more clear about this.

  Barack Obama

  Responsibility, Want, Pay

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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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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• 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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• Destruction of the churches and the like is not the way to Swaraj as defined by the Congress.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Church, Way, Destruction

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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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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• I didn't want to be president; I didn't want to be governor; I didn't want to be a congress person. I just wanted to be mayor of the city of Detroit. I lived there my entire life.

  Kwame Kilpatrick

  Cities, President, Want

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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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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• One third of the $15 trillion of mortgages in existence in 2008 are owned, or securitized by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Ginnie Mae, the Federal Housing and the Veterans Administration. Wall Street buyers of repackaged loans didn't mind buying risky paper because they assumed that they would be guaranteed by the federal government: read bailout from the taxpayers. Today's housing mess can be laid directly at the feet of Congress and the White House.

  Walter E. Williams

  Wall, White, Feet

  Walter E. Williams (2015). “American Contempt for Liberty”, p.47, Hoover Institution Press

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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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• 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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• I never supported violence. Before the formation of TMC, I was a member of the Congress Party. Gandhi's Congress. Non-violence is a philosophy that runs deep.

  Mamata Banerjee

  Running, Philosophy, Party

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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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• Yes, [I am accusing the CIA of] misleading the Congress of the United States, misleading the Congress of the United States. I am.

  Nancy Pelosi

  United States, Accusing, Cia

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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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• With Congress and the S.E.C. so heavily peopled by lawyers, and with lawyers having been so heavily involved in drafting financial disclosure documents now seen as bogus, there was a new "lawyer" joke every week. One such was: "The butcher says 'the reputation of lawyers has fallen dramatically', and the check-out clerk replies: "How do you fall dramatically off a pancake?

  Charlie Munger

  Fall, Clerks, Pancakes

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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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