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Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state. - David Dean Rusk Quotes
I believe it is incumbent upon Congress to act aggressively to ameliorate fear and help our country take the essential steps that will make our communities and lives safer. - Paul Gillmor Quotes
I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving. - Robert E Lee Quotes
Congress has greatly tightened the loopholes terrorists can use to harm Americans. We need to do more. We need controls immediately on what forms of ID are adequate to board planes and enter secure sites. - Elton Gallegly Quotes
Although I agree that wild horses are a symbol of the American West, I also believe that it is the responsibility of Congress to ensure that these animals are managed, protected, and controlled in an effective manner. - Jon Porter Quotes
I dont mind what Congress does, as long as they dont do it in the streets and frighten the horses. - Victor Hugo Quotes
I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that were getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war. - Barbara Lee Quotes
The old Court you and I served so long will not be worthy of its traditions if Nixon can twist, turn and fashion If Nixon gets away with that, then Nixon makes the law as he goes along - not the Congress nor the courts. - Earl Warren Quotes
Over the last five years, the Administration and the majority in Congress have appropriated less than $900 million for port security grants - despite the Coast Guards determination that $5.4 billion is needed over 10 years. - Solomon Ortiz Quotes
When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play. - Mac Thornberry Quotes
The truth is the Republican leadership has created a credit card Congress that is recklessly selling out the future of America, our children and our grandchildren, and President Bush is the most fiscally irresponsible President in the history of America. - Dennis Cardoza Quotes
If Congress doesnt raise taxes, you cannot get a private investment account without forgoing a portion, possibly all, of your guaranteed benefit check. - Grace Napolitano Quotes
Clean air is a basic right. The responsibility to ensure that falls to Congress and the president. - Thomas Carper Quotes
In addition to demanding answers and accountability from the Veterans Administration, Congress had to act to ensure veterans do not suffer because of the actions of a federal agency. - Doc Hastings Quotes
This drug coverage program was clearly designed by Republicans in Congress to serve the interests of the drug and insurance industries. Americas seniors were an afterthought. - Sherrod Brown Quotes
Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess? - Robert Byrd Quotes
I would rather be known as Jim Kolbe, the trade expert in Congress who happens to be gay, rather than Jim Kolbe, gay congressman from Arizona. - Jim Kolbe Quotes
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can. - Cullen Hightower Quotes
Congress should pass legislation to remove from the federal courts their jurisdiction to hear these outrageous challenges to the Ten Commandments and the Pledge of Allegiance. - Phyllis Schlafly Quotes
Congress cannot keep pace with the marketplace, and none of us should expect them to. I may feel differently next year, but thats how I feel now. - Hilary Rosen Quotes
Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe. - W Averell Harriman Quotes
If we are wondering why only 19 percent of the American people feel that the Congress is in tune with their priorities, the cuts in Amtrak is one blatant reason why. - Corrine Brown Quotes
Internal self-government under a local constitution was authorized by Congress and approved by the residents in 1952, but federal law is supreme in Puerto Rico and residents do not have voting representation in the Congress. - Dick Thornburgh Quotes
Increased and better screening for explosives is necessary - and Congress should fund it and TSA should implement it as quickly as possible - however that screening doesnt reduce the risk posed by a trained terrorist with an unconventional weapon. - Dave Reichert Quotes
It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the back of his mind, a congress of all those who have taught him and whom he has admired; they constitute his ideal audience and his better self. - Richard Wilbur Quotes
I said what I said before Congress because I meant every word of it. - Rafael Palmeiro Quotes
It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people. - Joe Baca Quotes
The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what people people are calling therapeutic cloning, then you will get reproductive cloning. - David Baltimore Quotes
I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humaneness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known. - Hubert H Humphrey Quotes
Republican leadership in Congress let the energy companies write the energy bill that sent prices soaring, and has turned a blind eye to the struggles of working families trying to make ends meet. - Sherrod Brown Quotes
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