Congressman Quotes - Page 5

• We've got a major problem, we've got a divide between the left, which understands how vital Hollywood and propaganda in communications is, and a conservative movement that thinks "no, we're the ones who are going to solve all the issues in America, we're congressmen, how could you not trust us?".

  Andrew Breitbart

  Communication, Thinking, America

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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• Republican Congressman Duncan Hunter has filed papers to run for president. But in his official filing, he misspelled the word 'president.' Political experts say it's all part of Hunter's plan to attract Bush supporters.

  Conan O'Brien

  Running, Political, President

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• If you saw General [James] Mattis and General [John] Kelly and Senator [Jeff] Sessions and Mr.[Rex] Tillerson and Congressman [Mike] Pompeo testify, you thought, look, this is a reasonable more than a reasonable, I would say, cabinet.

  Jason Chaffetz

  Looks, Saws, Cabinets

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• He has a competent person, I think who will be confirmed as HHS secretary, Congressman Tom Price.

  William Kristol

  Thinking, Persons, Secretary

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• [J.F Kennedy] was a congressman and a senator and he would go on to be president. I had that idea as a little boy, and I used to joke to people but nobody told me that his father was ambassador to England and that he was a war hero, and he was, you know.

  Mike Pence

  Father, War, Hero

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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• A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon. Donald Trump fired back at democratic Congressman John Lewis after Lewis said he did not see Trump as a legitimate president.

  Al Sharpton

  War, Rights, Icons

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Congressman John Lewis should finally focus on the burning and crime infested inner-cities of the U.S. I can use all the help I can get!

  Donald Trump

  Cities, Focus, Burning

  Source: www.refinery29.com

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• I understand the needs of both the military and the veteran, and that has helped me tremendously as a congressman. I am proud to serve on the House Committee on Veterans Affairs.

  Phil Roe

  Military, House, Needs

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• Jack Abramoff is going to testify against some of the other weasels in Congress. A lobbyist testifying against congressmen? How many Bibles are going to burst into flames in that courtroom?

  Jay Leno

  Flames, Lobbyists, Congress

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• After the risky mortgage-lending practices fostered by government intervention led to massive defaults and foreclosures that caused financial institutions to collapse or be bailed out, Congressman Frank changed his tune completely.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, Practice, Tunes

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.21, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Television has changed how we choose our leaders. It elected Ronald Reagan and a host of Kennedy-look-alike congressmen with blow-dried hair and gleaming teeth. It destroyed Senator Joe McCarthy by showing him in action and it created Jerry Falwell.

  Ronald Steel

  Blow, Hair, Leader

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• The problem is not that you can buy a congressman for $10000 but that you can buy a Washington lawyer for $100000.

  Nicholas Johnson

  Lawyer, Problem

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• We want freedom by any means necessary. We want justice by any means necessary. We want equality by any means necessary. We don't feel that in 1964, living in a country that is supposedly based upon freedom, and supposedly the leader of the free world, we don't think that we should have to sit around and wait for some segregationist congressmen and senators and a President from Texas in Washington, D.C., to make up their minds that our people are due now some degree of civil rights. No, we want it now or we don't think anybody should have it.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Mean, Thinking

  Malcolm X (1992). “By Any Means Necessary”, Pathfinder Press (NY)

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• A congressman is a pig. The only way to get his snout from the trough is to rap it sharply with a stick.

  Henry Adams

  Rap, Pigs, Way

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• A congressman sent a tweet that compared president Obama to Adolf Hitler. He has now apologized. It's not helping that he apologized to Hitler.

  Conan O'Brien

  President, Helping, Tweet

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• Here is your government at work. A congressman from Colorado said he wants to draft a rule that would make it unethical to have a sexual relationship with an intern. Only Congress would need a rule to tell them cheating on their wives is not ethical. Don't we have that rule? I believe it's called the Sixth Commandment.

  Jay Leno

  Cheating, Believe, Government

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• Yesterday Gary Condit spent the whole day attending an agricultural meeting. Boy, that's when you know a congressman's in real trouble: when he spends the whole day actually working.

  Jay Leno

  Real, Boys, Yesterday

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• There isn't a political price to be paid yet for doing nothing. People need to get upset with President Bush. People need to get upset with their Congressmen.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  People, Political, Upset

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• When a country is at war we want Congressmen, regardless of party, to back up the government of the United States.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, War, Party

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1950). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1942, Volume 11”, p.80, Best Books on

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• That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I would think, that our society is not yet either just or free.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Thinking, Years, Black

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.19, Take Root Media

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• I was a very, very good congressman.

  Dan Maffei

  Very Good

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• I want to thank you for coming to the White House to give me an opportunity to urge you to work with these five senators and three congressmen, to work hard to get this trade promotion authority moving. The power that be, well most of the power that be, sits right here.

  George W. Bush

  Moving, Hard Work, Humor

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• Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.

  Mark Twain

  Politics, Idiot, Imagine

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• A congressman actually apologized to BP's CEO for the way the company has been treated. How stupid are you when the CEO of BP is in the room and people think you're the moron?

  Jay Leno

  Stupid, Thinking, People

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• There can be no complete and permanent reform of the civil service until public opinion emancipates congressmen from all control and influence over government patronage. Legislation is required to establish the reform. No proper legislation is to be expected as long as members of Congress are engaged in procuring offices for their constituents.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Government, Long, Office

  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, February 14, 1879.

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