Congressman Quotes - Page 6

I have spent my career trying to get Congressmen to spend the people's money as if it were their own. But I have failed.

William Proxmire

Careers, People, Trying

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The single most important thing you can do politically for gay rights is to come out. Not to write a letter to your congressman but to come out.

Barney Frank

Writing, Gay, Rights

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The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it except they keep coming back

Will Rogers

Witty, Political, Might

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African American Congressman Bobby Rush wore a hoodie on the floor of Congress to make a point this week. And they threw him out. They said a hoodie is too scary for Congress. Too scary? Have you ever looked into Michele Bachmann's eyes?

Bill Maher

Eye, Scary, African American

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A former congressman on his sexting habit: I have made terrible mistakes. I have not been honest with myself, my family, my constituents, my friends and supporters and the media.

Anthony Weiner

Mistake, Media, Religion

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Pursue whatever it is that you want to do with your life. It is the only secret to happiness that I know except for maybe true love, that and maybe having the amazing health insurance plan that our congressmen have.

Lewis Black

Graduation, Secret, Want

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What do we have for veterans? Government-run health care. I understand that. Congressmen and senators... they get five choices of government-run health care. Why should a congressman and senator get anything more than a regular citizen does? Why are they privileged and the rest of us aren't?

Jesse Ventura

Running, Government, Choices

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Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung

Abraham Lincoln

Military, Saboteurs, Damage

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So what? A lobbyist cheated Indian tribes out of $25 million then laundered their money through phony Christian charities trying to stop other Indian tribes from getting casinos [on screen: 'Thou Shalt Not Compete'] and bribe congressmen in the process. Know what I call that? I call that business as usual in Washington. [on screen: 'Screwing Indians']

Stephen Colbert

Christian, Trying, Charity

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It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden

Mark Twain

God, Bears, Burden

Mark Twain, Harriet Elinor Smith (2012). “Autobiography of Mark Twain: Reader's Edition”, p.201, Univ of California Press

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We want to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their Congressmen, countries try to believe in their statesmen, but they can't. Too many voices, too much scattered, illogical ill-considered criticism.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Country, Believe, Voice

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.256, e-artnow

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And what I've come to learn is that it's the manufacturer's handbook, is what I call it. It teaches us how to run our lives individually, how to run our families, how to run our churches. But it teaches us how to run all of public policy and everything in society. And that's the reason as your congressman I hold the Holy Bible as being the major directions to me of how I vote in Washington, D.C., and I'll continue to do that.

Paul Broun

Running, Church, Vote

"Republican congressman: evolution is 'lies straight from the pit of hell'" by Alex Hern, www.newstatesman.com. October 8, 2012.

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I went to my Congressman and he said quote quote, I'd like to help you son, but you're too young to vote.

Eddie Cochran

Son, Politics, Helping

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Come Senators, Congressman, please heed the call, don't stand in the doorway, don't block the hall.

Bob Dylan

Block, Doorways, Politics

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If a theology student in lowa should get up at a PTA luncheon in Sioux City and attack the President's military policy, my guess is that you would probably find it reported somewhere the next morning in the New York Times. But when 300 Congressmen endorse the President's policy, the next morning it is apparently not considered news fit to print.

Spiro T. Agnew

Morning, New York, Military

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A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will betray; and four times out of five, a jay will go back on his solemnest promise.

Mark Twain

Lying, Promise, Principles

Mark Twain (2016). “A Tramp Abroad”, p.24, Xist Publishing

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New Yorkers your voices must be heard. Tell your state Congressmen to support same sex marriage bill. All you need is love

Madonna Ciccone

Sex, Voice, Support

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Leo Crowley, Harry [Truman]'s Foreign Economic Administrator, tells Congressmen the theory...: 'If you create good governments in foreign countries, automatically you will have better markets for ourselves.' With that honeycunt staring you in the face, you'd forget your grammar too.

E. L. Doctorow

Country, Government, Harry Truman

E.L. Doctorow (2010). “The Book of Daniel: A Novel”, p.234, Random House

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To many Congressmen and Senators right now, there's a ceaseless antagonism toward Hollywood because politically, it is high-reward and low-risk. So when you can't do anything about poverty or the budget deficit, and you can't deal with Bosnia or the possibility of nuclear explosions in Russia, what do you do? You bash Hollywood and get on the front pages.

Jack Valenti

Russia, Risk, Bosnia

"Public Endorses Uplifting Movies, Dole Tells Hollywood" by Adam Nagourney, www.nytimes.com. July 31, 1996.

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No one in America fully understands the constantly changing Internal Revenue Code. Agents of the IRS do not, judges do not, congressmen do not, and most assuredly taxpayers do not.

G. Edward Griffin

America, Judging, Irs

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I have a big problem when the sanctimonious, holier than thou congressmen and women go on national television for six hours and beat somebody up with a stick, and not because I'm 'Ms. Manners.' That's not what bothers me. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

Bernard Goldberg

Glasses, People, House

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How did the party that elected the first black U.S. senator, the party that elected the first 20 African-American congressmen, how did that party become a party that now loses 95 percent of the black vote?

Rand Paul

Party, Rights, Race

"Sen. Rand Paul Tries To Repair GOP's Image With Minorities". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. April 11, 2013.

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I never translated from my days in the Navy to being a congressman.

Eric Massa

Navy

"Exclusive: Eric Massa on 'Glenn Beck'". "Glenn Beck", www.foxnews.com. March 10, 2010.

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It is the will of God that we must have critics, and missionaries, and Congressmen, and humorists, and we must bear the burden. Meantime, I seem to have been drifting into criticism myself. But that is nothing. At the worst, criticism is nothing more than a crime, and I am not unused to that.

Mark Twain

Criticism, Bears, Crime

Mark Twain, Harriet Elinor Smith (2012). “Autobiography of Mark Twain: Reader's Edition”, p.201, Univ of California Press

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General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.

Herbert M. Shelton

Ignorance, President, Apathy

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