(2067 quotes found)
“The Congress will push me to raise taxes and I'll say no, and they'll push, and I'll say no, and they'll push again. And I'll say to them, read my lips, no new taxes.”
George Bush
“May I now pass on to this Congress advice which I received recently from a fellow Vermonter - Either impeach him or get off his back”
Howard Aiken
“All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.”
John Mortimer
“Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.”
Edmund Burke
“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
“What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law to be.”
Benjamin F. Fairless
“Saddam Hussein has invited members from the U.S. Congress to visit Iraq. Man how stupid is Hussein? If you think Bush had incentive to bomb Iraq before, imagine if Congress was over there.”
Jay Leno
“It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-biased media and the homosexuals who want to destroy all Christians”
Pat Robertson
“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 H. Humphrey
“In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate.”
Franklin Pierce Adams
