Congressman Quotes - Page 8

• If you're 54 or 55, you might want to listen because this will affect you. The idea, which was originally presented by Congressman Ryan, your running mate, is that we would give a voucher to seniors and they could go out in the private marketplace and buy their own health insurance.

  Barack Obama

  Senior, Running, Ideas

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• Dean Burk, PhD, of the National Cancer Institute (head of their Cytochemistry Section and 32-year veteran at the agency) declared in a (May 30,1972) letter to (congressman Louis Frey, Jr.) that high officials of the FDA, AMA and ACS (American Cancer Society), were deliberately falsifying information, literally lying...and in other ways thwarting potential cancer cures to which they were opposed.

  Barry Lynes

  Cancer, Lying, Fda

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• You may call a jay a bird. Well, so he is, in a measure--because he's got feathers on him, and don't belong to no church, perhaps;but otherwise he is just as much a human as you be. And I'll tell you for why. A jay's gifts and instincts, and feelings, and interests, cover the whole ground. A jay hasn't got any more principle than a Congressman.

  Mark Twain

  Bird, Feelings, Humanity

  Mark Twain (1994). “Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches”, p.163, Penguin

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• Get yourself a few ‘Dime a Dozen Generals,’ bid high in the ‘former statesmen lobby auction’, and put in your pocket one or two ‘ex-congressmen turned lobbyists’ who know the ropes when it comes to pocketing a few dozen who still serve.

  Sibel Edmonds

  Two, Pockets, Lobbyists

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• The little boy who goes to the store and forgets what his mother sent him for, will probably grow up to be a congressman.

  Evan Esar

  Mother, Growing Up, Boys

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• If we have Senators and Congressmen there that can't protect themselves against the evil temptations of lobbyists, we don't need to change our lobbies, we need to change our representatives.

  Will Rogers

  America, Evil, Temptation

  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.63, Rowman & Littlefield

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• In Washington, one man could do what ten of them do. There could be only a quarter or a third as many congressmen or senators, and we would pick better ones then. But it's the system that we have always used, and there is no use getting all overcome with perspiration over it. Things kinder run themselves, anyhow.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Men, Overcoming

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• That's what a Congressman or a Senator is for -- to see that too much money don't accumulate in the national Treasury.

  Will Rogers

  Government, Too Much, Congress

  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.56, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Rail-splitting produced an immortal president in Lincoln, but golf hasn't produced even a good Congressman.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Sports, Teenager

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• Before the 11th of September, in my discussions with many officials of the United States, some of them are Congressmen, I used to say that "don't deal with terrorists as playing games." It's a different story. You're going to pay the price if you're not wise in dealing with terrorists.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Wise, Pay The Price, Playing Games

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• Donald Trump has said he wants to keep Medicare and Social Security the way they are. Congressman Price along with most Republicans are on record supporting voucherizing Medicare. So there are going to be some conflicts to resolve there.

  Mara Liasson

  Records, Want, Way

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Republican Michigan Congressman Justin Amash said, no president is allowed to burn the first amendment.

  Chuck Todd

  President, Michigan, Firsts

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I've argued with the senators and congressmen I've talked to. You don't want to be too little too late. If you buy them at the right price, you may be buying two trillion of face value.

  Warren Buffett

  Two, Too Late, May

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". "Charlie Rose", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• Republican Congressmen and senators will be in a very interesting place, where they have to support the president-elect - president - what will be President [Donald] Trump when they - when they agree with him, try to guide him in certain ways, I think oppose him on some things.

  William Kristol

  Thinking, Interesting, Support

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Congressman [Richard ] Icord headed a House on American activities committee. It was called the House Internal Security Committee. And he put out a report, and he named a number of very destructive people who lectured at colleges and left arson in their wake and did other terrible things. And he mentioned me and he ascribed to me three organizations to which I'd never belonged, and I decided I would do something about this.

  Nat Hentoff

  College, Organization, Numbers

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• Paul Ryan is speaker of the house and that - that is up to members of the caucus. Donald Trump is not running for a congressman from Manhattan where he would actually vote on the speaker. But I appreciate the good wishes that we're actually going to be the next president of the United States and that we'll have to work with the speaker.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Running, Appreciate, House

  "Anderson Cooper Interview With Kellyanne Conway Says Hillary Clinton Has Been Fighting For Herself For 30 Years". Interview With Anderson Cooper, lybio.net.

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• We must remember that in the House, Congressman [Carlos] Curbelo has a - the same law, and it has a lot of support in the House. It's possible that it will happen first in the House and then go to the Senate.

  Marco Rubio

  Law, House, Support

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• Congressman [Mike] Pompeo said he believes the intelligence agencies' claims that Russia hacked the US election.

  James Mattis

  Believe, Russia, Agency

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The talk shows are stuffed full of sufferers who have regained their health--congressmen who suffered through a serious spell of boozing and skirt-chasing, White House aides who were stricken cruelly with overweening ambition, movie stars and baseball players who came down with acute cases of wanting to trash hotel rooms while under the influence of recreational drugs. Most of them have found God, or at least a publisher.

  Calvin Trillin

  Baseball, Stars, Ambition

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• There are only three ways a congressman goes out: They die in office, they cash in as a lobbyist, or they mistakenly tweet a picture of their d*ck.

  Bill Maher

  Office, Lobbyists, Three

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• I prefer a thief to a Congressman. A thief will take your money and be on his way, but a Congressman will stand there and bore you with the reasons why he took it.

  Walter E. Williams

  Bores You, Thieves, Way

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• I wouldn't vote for Steve Scalise because he goes he was that I will and Congressman of the United States that would vote for Israel which ethnically cleansed 600,000 Palestinians Israel recently killed and maimed 20,000 Palestinian men, women and children.

  David Duke

  Children, Men, Israel

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• Congressmen are not evil people, they're mostly sort of seismographs with antennae; they're waiting - they're more worried about losing their jobs than Assistant Deans of Men in the Ivy League.

  Allard K. Lowenstein

  Jobs, Men, Evil People

  Source: openvault.wgbh.org

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• Marijuana will be legal some day, because the many law students who now smoke pot will someday become congressmen and legalize it in order to protect themselves.

  Lenny Bruce

  Marijuana, Order, Law

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

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• That isn't how I've always felt. As a congressman, and more recently as a senator, I opposed marriage for same-sex couples. Then something happened that led me to think through my position in a much deeper way.

  Rob Portman

  Sex, Couple, Gay

  "Gay Marriage Wins Another Convert" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. March 15, 2013.

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