Quotes about Congress
All elections revolve around and are often resolved by who raises the most money. That's unfair. I'd like to see that process changed, but it seems once you win and get to Congress, that doesn't happen.
- John Murray
From his proceedings in Congress, he appears demented, and his actings and doings inspire my pity more than anger.
- Andrew Jackson
In Congress, I have defended solar energy to safeguard the economic and environmental future of Nevada, and I will continue to do so.
- Jacky Rosen
If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send 150 lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, & talk by the hour? That 150 lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.
- Thomas Jefferson
There is but one way for a president to deal with the Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it's really going to work, the relationship between the president and the Congress has got to be almost incestuous.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Most people do not realize that there was a paid chaplain in Congress even before the Revolutionary War ended.
- Francis Schaeffer
One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three is a Congress.
- John Adams
In the House, I was named one of the most bipartisan members of Congress, and that's a title I plan on continuing to hold in the Senate.
- Jacky Rosen
Over the last several days, we have heard from members of Congress who want their voices to be heard. I absolutely agree.
- Barack Obama
I enjoyed my stay in the Congress. Most people do not. And too many people who have been elected really don't understand the nature of government.
- Ed Koch
During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together.
- John Adams
I believe in the Constitution and I will obey the Constitution of the United States. We're not going to use signing statements as a way of doing an end run around congress.
- Barack Obama