Quotes with congress

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  • Al Gore During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
    Al Gore
    American politician and environmentalist (1948 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders For better or worse, when Sen. Inhofe speaks, the Republican Party follows. And when the Republican Party follows, it is impossible to get real work done in the Congress.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Blake Farenthold Historically, the Justice Department has been Congress' ally in fighting wrongdoing in government, but under this Justice Department and Eric Holder, rather than being the people's attorney, Eric Holder sees himself as the president's attorney and he'll do anything to defend the president.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Anthony Weiner I am announcing my resignation from Congress so my colleagues can get back to work, my neighbors can choose a new representative and most importantly that my wife and I can continue to heal from the damage I have caused.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Victor Hugo I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Robert E. Lee 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
    American legeraanvoerder (1807 - 1870)
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  • Hubert Humphrey I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Arundhati Roy I think many people were surprised by the victory of the Congress, because it was really hard to see beyond the sort of haze of hatred that the Hindu nationalists had been spreading.
    Arundhati Roy
    Indian author (1961 - )
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  • Bill Richardson I'd like to see that bipartisanship come back that we used to have in the House of Representatives, in the Clinton years. I think there's a possibility that the voters are going to send the message that everybody running - Congress, the Senate, the presidency - that they want us to come together.
    Bill Richardson
    American politician, author, and diplomat (1947 - )
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  • Blake Farenthold If I were to leave Congress and want to start Farenthold TV, it would be very difficult. The fewer players there are, the fewer the opportunities to build a big enough audience to get on.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Blake Farenthold Immigration specifically was laid out in the Congress, giving the power of Congress to create a uniform system of naturalization.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein In recent years, Republicans have argued that Congress is a more responsible policymaker than the executive branch. But when it comes to regulation, Congress is often much worse, and for just one reason: Executive agencies almost always focus on both costs and benefits, and Congress usually doesn't.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Mark Twain It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Barney Frank It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Blake Farenthold It's Congress' job to keep an eye on the other agencies and the workings of the entire government. It is our constitutional duty.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Adrian Cronauer It's not written in the Constitution or anything else.... Congress, just out of the clear blue sky, said the airwaves belong to the people, which means, in essence, that it belongs to Congress.
    Adrian Cronauer
    American air force radio personality during Vietnam War (1938 - 2018)
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  • Carrie P. Meek Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.
    Carrie P. Meek
    American politician (1926 - )
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  • Bruce Babbitt Look, I think by the time my case was over and other ones, everybody on both sides of the aisle in Congress said we can't run a government by this kind of process and they repealed the law and that's good.
    Bruce Babbitt
    American attorney and politician (1938 - )
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  • Bennie Thompson Medicare debates in Congress should result in better Medicare benefits for all our nation's seniors. We're not asking for special treatment for rural America, just a fair deal.
    Bennie Thompson
    American politician (1948 - )
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