Congress Quotes - Page 9

• Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  Quoted in Albert B. Paine, Mark Twain: A Biography (1912)

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  We have the right as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.

  Davy Crockett

  Money, Giving, Charity

  "The Life of Colonel David Crockett". Book by Edward Sylvester Ellis, 1884.

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• As Congress continues to debate ways to address illegal immigration, we must remember the many hard-working legal immigrants that contribute so much to our nation's economy and culture.

  Bob Filner

  Hard Work, Immigration, Culture

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• For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending.

  Mike Pence

  Pregnancy, Government, Years

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

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• It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our Nation's number one public health problem.

  Jim Ramstad

  Aggravation, Numbers, People

  United States of America Congressional Record Proceedings and Debates of the 106th Congress First Session Vol 145- Part 10, p. 14054, June 1999.

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• It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  President, Privilege, Duty

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• Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation power to starve the judicial budget.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Judging, Use, Embrace

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• I believe Watergate shows that the system did work. Particularly the Judiciary and the Congress, and ultimately an independent prosecutor working in the Executive Branch.

  Bob Woodward

  Work, Believe, Independent

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• Congress is not an ATM.

  Robert Byrd

  Aggravation, Atm

  "Senators ask tough questions", www.cnn.com. September 10, 2003.

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• The problem is that most members of Congress don’t pay attention to what’s going on.

  John McCain

  Attention, Pay, Problem

  "A Crumbling America" by Michael Bendetson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 3, 2010.

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• I really want Congress to do its job, the constitutional power that they have, to halt an imperial presidency, to halt this fundamental transformation of America that is making us an unrecognizable mess of a nation at this time.

  Sarah Palin

  Jobs, America, Fundamentals

  "Palin Calls For Obama's Impeachment: 'Halt An Imperial Presidency'" by Ian Schwartz, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 08, 2014.

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• I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Sarcastic, Running

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• You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.

  Milton Berle

  Funny, Inspiring, Graduation

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• With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Humor, Law

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.50, Rowman & Littlefield

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• This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Baby, Inspiration

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They've long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear.

  George Carlin

  Running, Smart, Thinking

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• Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?

  Patrick Henry

  Real, Gun, Differences

  Speech on the Federal Constitution, Virginia Ratifying Convention, on June 09, 1788. "The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution". Book edited by Jonathan Elliot, volume 3, p. 168-169, 1836.

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• Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.

  F. Lee Bailey

  Government, Usa, Rights

  "Newsweek" Magazine, April 17, 1967.

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• I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress.

  Peter Stone

  Humor, Men, Law

  Sherman Edwards, Peter Stone (1976). “1776: A Musical Play”, Penguin Group USA

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• A president just can't make much showing against congress. They lay awake nights, thinking up things to be against the president on.

  Will Rogers

  Night, Thinking, President

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• I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment - the sober second thought - of the people.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  People, Office, President

  Diary entry. "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States". Book edited by Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, March 01, 1878.

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• No issue is more important to this Congress than securing our borders and protecting our homeland, and I guarantee it is very important to our constituents.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Aggravation, Issues, Important

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• What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?

  Marion Barry

  Law, Aggravation, Political

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• The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

  Will Rogers

  Death, Government, Political Will

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• In foreign affairs, the president can do what he wants unless Congress says no. In domestic policy, the president can't do anything unless Congress says yes.

  Bill Vaughan

  President, Want, Affair

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