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Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
it is a longstanding principle that sitting national security advisers do not testify before the Congress.
Every one of us in Congress has a responsibility to keep working together and stay focused on what matters.
What the 1990s taught the Clinton veterans was that you could 'triangulate' with a GOP-controlled Congress.
Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress.
Sometimes running for Congress is a four-year strategy in terms of getting out there and building a network.
The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.
I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.
Jimmy Carter proposed withdrawing the troops from South Korea. He was stopped by the United States Congress.
Anytime a large, emergency spending bill makes its way through Congress, the potential for mischief is great.
I could say, as a member of Congress, we usually get an alert if something is going to happen at the Capitol.
The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today.
TDP had to join hands with the Congress given the need for a major anchor party in the front against the BJP.
I'm more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yankees or Giants.
In 2010, we have to focus on electing a new Congress and in 2012 we have to focus on electing a new president.
I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.
It is time this Congress listened to the American people and minimum-wage workers, and it is time that we act.
They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-biased media and the homosexuals who want to destroy all Christians.
Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again.
As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
It's a lie! I am not an anti-Semite. The World Jewish Congress supported me and said that I am not anti-Semitic.
If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.
Scandals, corruption, partisan infighting - no wonder people have lost faith in Congress. I say enough is enough.
Congress in session is Congress on public exhibition, whilst Congress in its committee-rooms is Congress at work.
Congress votes for things the military doesn't want, and planes and other weaponry that cost a lot but don't work.
If our men and women in uniform are restricted from buying first-class airfare, the same should apply to Congress.
I've never met a Democrat in Congress who wants open borders or who doesn't believe in enforcing immigration laws.
Republicans believe an obstructionist, do-nothing Congress will deny Obama momentum and keep their base energized.
Congress has scarcely any thing to employ them, and complain that the place [Washington, D.C.] is remarkably dull.
It's not fair to say that Congress spends money like a drunk sailor. At least the sailor is spending his own money!
They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
It's August, which means Congress is on recess and Mitch McConnell has shimmied back into the ocean to seek a mate.
We need to take politics out of health care. Congress will cave to pretty much any special interest on the subject.
Most people are far more concerned that they can control their own bodies than they are about petitioning Congress.
Congress has an obligation to ease the challenges our veterans face when they come home and return to civilian life.
Our job in Congress is to serve the American people, and not enrich ourselves with special taxpayer-funded benefits.
Ignorance of the law is not a valid excuse for accused criminals, and it cannot be an excuse for members of Congress.
Anybody that brings up amnesty in this Congress, we need to just take the scarlet 'A' for amnesty and pin it on them.
It is statesmanlike for the administration and Congress to look to our nation's welfare beyond their terms in office.
I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.
I'm not being asked to conform to some prior expectation of what a Congress member is, but I'm just getting to be me.
The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.
Everyone knows that a federal job is a lifetime job, and for many in Congress, it seems they have a lifetime job, too.
I went to Congress to change the policies of our country. I did not go to change the behaviors of members of Congress.
We need to be calling out the flaws and misguided decisions of the Democrats in Congress and the Obama administration.
From 1965 to 1967, my dad, Jack Gilligan, served in Congress and helped pass landmark laws like the Voting Rights Act.
That's what a Congressman or a Senator is for -- to see that too much money don't accumulate in the national Treasury.
Keith Ellison is an organizer's organizer.He's one of the only Muslims in Congress, so you have a big statement there.