Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nancy Pelosi

This Republican Congress is the most corrupt in history and the American people are paying the price.

Steve Frank

There have been thousands of amendments proposed in Congress. Only a handful have been presented to the states.

Ben Bernanke

There is a deficit; I'd like to see it lowered. But it's up to Congress to decide whether that should be done by higher taxes, lower spending or some combination.

Kristin Gore

Whenever Congress was in session, we were in Washington. So four months out of the year we were in Tennessee and the rest of the time in Arlington, which is where my mom grew up. Then, of course, in 1992 we moved into the vice president's house in D.C. I was 15 then.

Too much of the debate over immigration reform has ignored one of the greatest threats to our privacy. The proposed employer verification system would require Americans, regardless of citizenship, to get a 'permission slip to work' from the government. If Congress wants to reform immigration, then it should, but it shouldn't use this legislation as a clandestine means to subvert our constitutional right to privacy.

We didn't expect Congress to rubber stamp what we had negotiated, ... But we did think that we were there in good faith.

Mike Pence

To those who say it would be too difficult to repeal and replace Obamacare, I say it's a two step process. We repeal the Pelosi Congress in 2010 and replace the Obama Administration in 2012.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

All too often in tough economic times, it is the environment that gets left on the cutting room floors of Congress as everyone scraps for limited federal dollars.

When requests come in from Congress, of course they receive appropriate consideration.

While restoring a sense of fiscal discipline to Congress is a top priority, infrastructure spending is an important and necessary task of government. Our nation's long-term debt requires us to prioritize and economize with every tax dollar.

With all due respect, you've told me nothing, ... It's kind of interesting, this kabuki dance we have in these hearings here, as if the public doesn't have a right to know what you think about fundamental issues facing them.

Though Congress continues to explore possible solutions to ensure social security solvency, everyone must take personal responsibility to prepare their own retirement savings accordingly.

Ron Wyden

Rather than waiting for future trials to determine rules that will impact every citizen, Congress should step in and write a law that takes every American's rights into consideration.

We will be working with Tom DeLay and other members of Congress to see just what further relief might be called for,

The president is only proposing a 22 percent increase and I rather suspect that Congress will be inclined to provide that assistance. But since the increase is modest, it's probably not going to be enough.

We are really disappointed. For Congress to produce any kind of credible reform, they need an enforcement mechanism.

Gwen Moore

The reality is is that Congress is a very male-gendered oriented institution. Out of the, you know, more than 10,000 people who've ever been elected to Congress, you know, only about 250 of them have ever been women.

John Ashcroft

The pending hate crime legislation in Congress is under review in the Justice Department at this time, ... We're inclined to prosecute hate crimes like this one.

We are grateful to Congress and the president for enacting this legislation without further delay.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Women oftentimes are the ones making those economic decisions, sitting around the kitchen table and trying to figure out how to pay for rising gas prices or food prices or the health insurance costs. And I think that they see where they expect their leaders in Congress to also make those tough decisions.

Luis Gutierrez

Mr. Speaker, Americans want, need, and rightfully expect Congress to protect them from the prying eyes of identity thieves and give them back control of their Social Security numbers and personal health information.

Nancy Pelosi

My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade school - first grade - to when I went away to college.

Those funds have to be appropriated by Congress and then they are funneled down to the states.

John Deane

To me, this is not really and should not be a partisan question. I think it's a question of institutional pride of this body, of the Congress of the United States.

To let the senators know how we feel about the legislation in Congress ... It's a peaceful assembly.

We are not privy to this. The Congress has played no role in this. The law will take its own course and the guilty should be punished.

Mark Udall

The problem isn't ex-members (of Congress), or future members or even lobbyists. The problem is lodged in the way the (Congress) does its business, and we have to reform ourselves. Public opinion, public spotlight can push us to do so.

Abraham Foxman

We have not galvanized Congress, but we will have to.

The president has stated that he'd like to stay and get the work done. But we'll take a look at whatever emerges from Congress at the end of the day.

Jim Clyburn

The president and Republicans in Congress have repeatedly promised to revisit Social Security privatization after November. But Americans have already said, loud and clear, that they don't want Social Security to be privatized or dismantled.

The problem is you don't vote for a party. You're voting for a member of Congress. And we're a year away.

Edward Kennedy

We are determined to have these issues debated in Congress this fall,

John Conyers

You did the right thing by offering to resign, ... I'd like you to know that there's at least one member of Congress who is not going to rationalize the innocent deaths of two dozen children.