Famous Quotes & Sayings

The important risk here is that this inevitable storm-surge of spending comes precisely at the moment when Congress is about to vote on important pro-growth tax initiatives.

The industry has seen repeats of the significant impacts of risk, There will be a consideration from Congress this year for some kind of economic partnership to deal with federal-related risks.

A hospital is supposed to treat the sick. The problem is that instead of treating the sickness, Congress has instead made it tougher for people with financial trouble to get into the hospital.

And suddenly, as nothing before had for the Chinese, this indicated that the Congress really counts in American policy process.

All we want Congress to do is hear what we have to say. We have illegal parents. Some of us are here illegally. And all we want is an education and to succeed in the United States, because we're already here.

This is a good nomination in the sense that it could heal some of the wounds that may have developed over the past few years between the White House and Congress. It was necessary to get somebody who works well with Congress in order to get any fiscal restraint. But he does have his work cut out for him.

This is a great victory. . . . We heard predictions and from many critics and pundits that Congress would never repeal the Byrd amendment.

Justin Jones

This is a hunting license. It doesn't mean we've bagged the deer, but it means we get to go for the money. And it isn't just any license. It's a license from the president to go to Congress and get the money.

Tom Daschle

This is a Congress that is much more interested in investigating than legislating,

Phil Gingrey

All containers shipped out of Dubai are screened, and certainly, as a member of congress that gave me a much more secure feeling as they explained some of their expertise and equipment that they used.

Despite what you may hear from the administration and from Congress, this CBO report does not provide evidence that the tax cuts are working and that they can be extended without worrying about large deficits.

Arlen Specter

An imperial president has become more imperial, simply because the Congress has not taken steps to secure its power of the purse.

Norm Coleman

anything but straight with the Congress and the American people.

Any pro-environmental piece of legislation has a hard road to travel in this Congress. It's not going to be a walk in the park, not with current leadership in some of these committees.

John Breaux

a sense of what's happening in Congress and what's not happening.

Right now, there's no one at home at the White House when it comes to privacy. There's no political official in the White House who has privacy in their title or as part of their job description. Congress should take the lead here because this administration has not.

Perhaps Nancy Pelosi will now realize that Billy's decision to retire from Congress had more to do with getting well physically than getting well financially.

Mark Twain

Rail-splitting produced an unparalleled president in Lincoln. But gold hasn't produced even a good A-1 congressman.

Tom Daschle

ram through divisive provisions and pork spending that could never win the support of Congress on their own.

Fred Thompson

People think that they can waltz up to Congress and say anything that comes to their minds, ... Until somebody is prosecuted for some of this activity, people are not going to take congressional investigations very seriously in the future.

Oftentimes, Congress wants to get involved because of the theater of it all,

Barry Bonds

Oh, Congress should let it go? Gee, I wonder why he would say that.

Now more than ever it's not the time for Congress to be raising its pay,

The more it fails, the more money it seems Congress and the president are willing to throw at it.

The money Congress has provided has not kept pace with inflation or the growth of demand, and the current level of funding is going to be inadequate no matter what the price.

Randy Barnett

deferred to Congress, the executive and to legal precedent - in some unspecified mix.

They're not overly happy with the president, they're not overly happy with what the Congress is doing, however they love their congressman,

There's been a difference in Congress. I expect to see a much more favorable Congress next year, no matter who wins. People are not going to forget Firestone/Explorer quickly.

At a time when special interest money is being showered on legislators in Washington, grassroots donors offer members of Congress a refreshing independence. The $25 and $50 donor is not looking for special favors. He or she is simply expecting their Congressman to go do the right thing.

Arlen Specter

At any rate, Congress hasn't acted, and that's really what the focus of our hearing is today as to what ought to be done.

Will Rogers

A Congressman is never any better than his roads, and sometimes worse.

They seem to be on top of it and there doesn't seem to be a need for Congress to get involved.

Daniel Blumenthal

A lot of issues that had been submerged over the last few years have re-emerged, partly because the U.S. Congress has taken the lead on a number of economics issues, which has soured things.