Congress Quotes - Page 21

• President Obama's executive actions give work permits and federal entitlement benefits to people illegally in America - in direct violation of the laws passed by Congress. This undermines the entire constitutional system of government.

  Donald Trump

  Government, Law, America

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• [Donald Trump] is going to be tainted by scandal. Congress hangs by just three Republican votes. If he loses three Republicans, you're going to see investigations, subpoenas.

  Norman L. Eisen

  Three, Scandal, Vote

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The truth is that America has been closely divided politically for quite some time. That was reflected in some of the challenges I had with the Republican Congress.

  Barack Obama

  America, Challenges, Republican

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Write letters to your editors, write to your members of Congress, and write to your news stations.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Writing, Editors, News

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I don't understand why every single person in Congress isn't standing up and going, "He [Donald Trump] is in bed with Russia." And then they could just lock their arms and not let him in.

  Jen Kirkman

  Russia, Bed, Locks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• [Congress] can just make [Mitt] Romney president. And we'd be like, "All right, fine."

  Jen Kirkman

  President, Fine, Romney

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The immigration bill - the new immigration bill - [Bill Clinton] has stripped the courts, which Congress can do under the leadership of the president, so that people who had a right to asylum or to petition - for asylum who were legal residents are now unable to go through because that part of the bill has been taken out.

  Nat Hentoff

  Taken, People, President

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• Just the fact that we can't pass budgets in our Congress, just the fact that we are gridlocked in our own democracy, the fact that everybody who travels can see that we're not investing in our airports, in our rail, in our infrastructure and so forth, people are noticing a United States that is not getting the job done in some ways.

  John F. Kerry

  Jobs, Airports, People

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I think raising wages, investing in infrastructure, making sure that people have access to good educations that equip them for the jobs of the future. Those are all agenda items that would help alleviate some of those economic pressures and dislocations that people are experiencing. The problem was I couldn't convince the Republican Congress to pass a lot of them.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  Source: time.com

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• For Democrats who are feeling completely discouraged, I've been trying to remind them, everybody remembers my Boston speech in 2004. They may not remember me showing up here in 2005 when John Kerry had lost a close election, Tom Daschle, the leader of the Senate, had been beaten in an upset. Ken Salazar and I were the only two Democrats that won nationally. Republicans controlled the Senate and the House, and two years later, Democrats were winning back Congress, and four years later I was President of the United States.

  Barack Obama

  Winning, Boston, Years

  "President Obama’s first press conference of the Trump era, annotated". www.washingtonpost.com. November 14, 2016.

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• I can't imagine that I would be asked that by the president-elect [Donald Trump], or then-president [Barack Obama]. But it's - I'm very clear. I voted for the change that put the Army Field Manual in place as a member of Congress. I understand that law very, very quickly and am also deeply aware that any changes to that will come through Congress and the president.

  James Mattis

  Army, Law, Congress And The President

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I'm not so optimistic as to think that you would ever be able to garner a majority of an American Congress that would make those kinds of investments above and beyond the kinds of investments that could be made in a progressive program for lifting up all people.

  Barack Obama

  Optimistic, Thinking, People

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• I don't think it is the most important thing. I think it is the fact that the director of national intelligence gave a false statement to Congress under oath, which is a felony. If we allow our officials to knowingly break the law publicly and face no consequences, we're instituting a culture of immunity, and this is what I think historically will actually be considered the biggest disappointment of the [Barack] Obama administration.

  Edward Snowden

  Disappointment, Thinking, Law

  Interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen, www.thenation.com. October 28, 2014.

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• The chairs [in Congress] are part of the "Gang of Eight." They get briefed on every covert-action program and everything like that. They know where all the bodies are buried. At the same time, they get far more campaign donations than anybody else from defense contractors, from intelligence corporations, from private military companies.

  Edward Snowden

  Military, Eight, Defense

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• When we look at how, constitutionally, only Congress can declare war, and that is routinely ignored. Not NATO or the UN, but Congress has to authorize these endless wars, and it isn't.

  Edward Snowden

  War, Looks, Ignored

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• I really do not think there is a serious split between Republicans and Democrats in Congress in how responsive they are to constituents.

  Ezra G. Levin

  Thinking, Splits, Serious

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• We're now more than a year since my NSA revelations, and despite numerous hours of testimony before Congress, despite tons of off-the-record quotes from anonymous officials who have an ax to grind, not a single US official, not a single representative of the United States government, has ever pointed to a single case of individualized harm caused by these revelations. This, despite the fact that former NSA director Keith Alexander said this would cause grave and irrevocable harm to the nation.

  Edward Snowden

  Years, Nsa, Government

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• There will be a focus on infrastructure. The American people had elected a builder to be President of the United States. We're going to work with members of Congress to move forward legislation to fund our infrastructure more effectively in the country.

  Mike Pence

  Country, Moving, People

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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• Republicans in Congress have already taken the initial steps to start repealing the Affordable Care Act. Democrats are hoping to at the very least slow that process down by rallying public support for the health care law.

  Rachel Martin

  Taken, Law, Support

  "Democrats Rally In Dozens Of Cities To Oppose Obamacare Repeal", bpr.org. January 16, 2017.

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• We've got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.

  Al Sharpton

  Years, Two, Balance

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The Republicans in Congress, they believe in Ronald Reagan's Republican Party, not Donald Trump Republican Party or Steve Bannon's Republican Party.

  David Brooks

  Party, Believe, Republican

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think the whole dynamic is different. Whereas in [Barack] Obama's case, even though there was no incumbent, he was able to run against eight years of Bush-Cheney and a Republican Congress, and everyone was tired of everything. He was able to benefit from that.

  William Kristol

  Running, Tired, Thinking

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• I think there were two messages in last year's election. One is pretty obvious. People were mad as hell at the president [Barack Obama] - and wanted to send a message. We all got that. Our new members were also hearing, and I was hearing as well, that people didn't like the fact that the Congress was dysfunctional. Now they may have been confused about where the dysfunctionality was cause the president kept pointing to the House. Factually, that's not accurate. The dysfunction was in the Senate.

  Mitch McConnell

  Confused, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.rollcall.com

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• Speaker [Paul] Ryan made clear that the Republican congress agrees with [Donald Trump], and [building a wall] that`s something that should be done.

  Mark Halperin

  Wall, Done, Republican

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• Aren't we supposed to believe that if you are an elected official, if you serve in Congress, you are representing all the people of your district not just the people who voted for you, not [just] the people who you agree with?

  David Duke

  Believe, People, Agree

  "Dr. Duke on CNN: Hear the UNCENSORED FULL Interview Here". CNN Interview, davidduke.com. January 5, 2015.

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