Famous Quotes & Sayings

They're really trying to tell Congress that they're playing straight with them.

Newt Gingrich

I helped convince him to run (for Congress) ... when he was going to retire I helped make him Appropriations chairman,

I hope Congress stands up and says there was an error made, in order to preserve our constitutional responsibility, we will go back and re-enact this legislation and this time we won't fudge.

Bud Selig

I hear that there is about 58 more guys that have tested positive and if that's true, this game is screwed! Congress will have a field day with it.

Asa Hutchinson

I have reservations, and so do the Congress and the people.

I really do think that this is probably a longer debate than simply this Congress. The critical step right now is to have a credible alternative on the table so that it can be a productive debate.

Vayalar Ravi

I really feel sorry for him. Look at his plight now. In the Congress party, he was the decision maker and now he is waiting for others to decide.

In the past, some members of Congress have short-changed troops, disaster victims, and taxpayers by including self-serving pork projects in emergency spending bills,

If you talk to any member of Congress, they will tell you that when they go home, this is what they hear about.

I guess that the FSU exemption will be interpreted the way people want to see it, whether it is a red light or green light. The National Congress is going to stay vigilant and work so there aren't glaring examples of racism and stereotyping involving the use of a mascot or logo that will be exempted from the NCAA's historic decision.

I support his race for Congress and I hope he'll be our next representative in Washington.

If the president signs it and Congress approves, we could get as many as 150 families.

If the other senator from your state is in your party, you don't have to feel great pressure to speak out on every issue. They need to get their message out so that the other congressman from the other party doesn't establish his point of view.

I fully expect that Congress will iron out the differences. With Social Security reform a bust, pension reform is a must.

If you expect Haiti to have any kind of democracy in the future, congress has to play a major role.

If you're not going to have a lunar landing until 2018, how are you going to keep people and Congress interested?

Claire McCaskill

If you look through history, all of the great work we've done in Congress has been around a table of compromise, when it comes to the most difficult problems.

John Bolton

I'm sorry to disappoint you, Congressman. I had no role in this issue.

In 2000 we were given a mandate by the people to remove President Robert Mugabe. We are going back to congress in February, but he is still there. You have an obligation to report that we have failed to remove him. We have to report (even if) we say he stole the elections.

Dick Durbin

I'm hoping that (the president and Congress are) sensitive to what consumers are needing,

I'm hoping something will happen soon in Congress.

I'll decide tomorrow after the Uefa Congress whether I will speak or not.

In response to inquiries, including from Congress, we are clarifying our position on the science.

By the middle of the fall, if there's a feeling that the economy has withstood this blow, then Congress might be able to return to a more traditional agenda.

William Daley

But I am optimistic we will pull it out. I am optimistic Congress will do the right thing,

Jared Bernstein

I and others have been looking desperately for silver linings in this tragedy and if Katrina were to motivate Congress to look at this issue seriously, that would be great.

Certainly, it would be helpful to have someone else like him -- outside of Congress -- working on the issue,

But we need to see movement, ... Let's make no mistake about it. Congress will demand to see movement.

But it's going to be a quiet week. A lot of people are on vacation, there's little in corporate reporting or econ data, Congress is still in recess. We lack drama right now, which means we're going to be left to our own devices, which could be good or bad.

Bill Schneider

But the court allows the states to use the estimated numbers ...for drawing the lines within each state to the determine what district every member of Congress and each state legislator represents.

Richard Gephardt

This is a Bart Simpson Congress: underachievers and proud of it.

Evans said I sought and got a loan of $30,000 from him in the lead-up to the 2003 JFF congress and I found that to be most offensive and embarrassing, because it is not true.

Mark Twain

Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a congressman can