Quotes with congress

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  • Bob Beauprez Memo to Congress: America's problem is not that government is too small. It's the spending, stupid!
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Bill McKibben Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies.
    Bill McKibben
    American environmentalist, author, and journalist (1960 - )
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  • Bob Inglis Most of us complain about Congress. We say it's a place that doesn't reflect us; they don't listen to us. Actually, Congress well reflects the American people. It gives us exactly what we ask for.
    Bob Inglis
    American politician (1959 - )
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  • Campbell Brown Mr. Obama is particularly well positioned to challenge Hollywood because of his special relationship with the media world's elites. They might be more likely to heed criticism coming from Mr. Obama than from any other president or member of Congress.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Lichty and Wagner Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
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  • Ben Bernanke Our mission, as set forth by the Congress is a critical one: to preserve price stability, to foster maximum sustainable growth in output and employment, and to promote a stable and efficient financial system that serves all Americans well and fairly.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Mark Twain Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Carol Moseley Braun So I think that if we want to have a Congress, if we want to have government that looks like America, if we want to have government that is truly a representative Democracy, then we need to clearly address how we get our campaign laws out of the way of Democracy.
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • Artur Davis Sometimes running for Congress is a four-year strategy in terms of getting out there and building a network.
    Artur Davis
    American attorney and politician (1967 - )
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  • Mark Twain Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bernard Devoto Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows.
    Bernard Devoto
    American historian, essayist and teacher
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  • Cullen Hightower Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.
    Cullen Hightower
    American quotation and quip writer (1923 - 2008)
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  • Bill Flores The ability of Texas Republicans to be effective in Congress is based on having at least 218 Republicans in the House.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Camille Paglia The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Blake Farenthold The American people should not be footing the bill for federal employees who stonewall Congress or rewarding government officials' bad behavior.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Calvin Coolidge The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until some one is asked to pay the bill. If we are to have a billion dollars of navy, half a billion of farm relief, etc. the people will have to furnish more revenue by paying more taxes. It is for them, through their Congress, to decide how far they wish to go.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Byron Dorgan The Bush Administration and the Congress have to stop ignoring this crisis in international trade. The longer we ignore it, the more American jobs will move overseas. It's just that simple.
    Byron Dorgan
    American author, businessman (1942 - )
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  • Arundhati Roy The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.
    Arundhati Roy
    Indian author (1961 - )
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  • Carl Bernstein The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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