Congress Quotes - Page 4

• The salary of a member of Congress ends the day that he of she leaves office.

  Virgil Goode

  Office, Salary, Ends

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• Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe.

  W. Averell Harriman

  Europe, Silence, Breaking Down

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• The tax relief that this Congress has given now in terms of four tax cuts has overwhelmingly gone to the people at the very top of the income scale in America.

  Richard Neal

  Cutting, America, People

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• The moral issue here is whether the United States Congress is going to stand in the way of science and preclude scientists from doing lifesaving research.

  Rosa DeLauro

  Aggravation, Issues, United States

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• No man in America ever strove more, and more successfully first to bring about a Congress in 1765, and then to support it ever afterwards than myself.

  Christopher Gadsden

  Men, America, Support

  Christopher Gadsden (1966). “The Writings of Christopher Gadsden, 1746-1805”, Columbia : University of South Carolina Press

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• If the Republicans get control back of the United States Senate, we will no longer have a check and balance on the White House, on the Republican Congress.

  Patty Murray

  White, House, Balance

  "Bush, Clinton in campaign blitz", www.cnn.com. November 2, 2002.

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• Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it.

  Sherrod Brown

  College, Years, Broken

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• The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years.

  Ed Markey

  Leadership, Years, President

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. May 4, 2005.

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• I ran for Congress, just once.

  Shirley Temple

  Ran

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Aggravation, Trials, Lawyer

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• Obviously, overall infrastructure needs on the Southwest and Northern borders are mounting. We need a major push in Congress to remedy this.

  Pete Domenici

  Borders, Needs, Infrastructure

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• Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public.

  Charles M. Vest

  Goal, Research, University

  "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

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• I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.

  Crystal Eastman

  Aggravation

  Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The need for a permanent status resolution approved by Congress is made even more clear to me because of my experience as a former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.

  Dick Thornburgh

  Experience, Needs, Resolution

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• If they're willing to stand at polls for countless hours in the rain, as many did, then I should surely stand up for them here in the halls of Congress.

  Stephanie Tubbs Jones

  Rain, Aggravation, Hours

  "History in the Making: Dems Force Debate on Ohio Voting Irregularities". www.democracynow.org. January 7, 2005.

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• There have been high crimes and misdemeanors, but they have been committed by the special prosecutor and the Congress, not the president.

  Donella Meadows

  Hype, Special, President

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• I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Congress of Scientists.

  Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

  People, Together, Earth

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• Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

  Chris Chocola

  United States, Significant, Percentages

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• I supported Bob Schaffer's three races for Congress. But we all had concerns about whether he could win statewide. Then my wife suggested that I get it.

  Pete Coors

  Winning, Race, Wife

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• The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress.

  Mitch McConnell

  Aggravation, Want, Administration

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• We in Congress stand by Israel. In Congress, we speak with one voice on the subject of Israel.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Israel, Voice, Speak

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• Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing, after all.

  Eugene Field

  Jail, Statesmen

  Eugene Field (1967). “The complete Tribune primer”

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• In my 31 years in Congress, I have seen a lot of changes. We made some substantial policy changes that have improved our parks system and our public lands.

  Ralph Regula

  Years, Land, Aggravation

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• The new Congress needs to move quickly to strengthen the Army and Marines - not to send more troops to Iraq - but to rebuild our capacity to meet national security threats globally.

  Mark Udall

  Moving, Marine, Army

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• Serving in Congress has been the honor of a lifetime.

  Bob Ehrlich

  Aggravation, Honor, Lifetime

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