Congressional Staff Quotes

#1. Congressional staff members do have a considerable amount of responsibility. But in my experience, the loyalty of the vast majority of staffers to their bosses leads them to be honest brokers of information for the members they work for.

John Harwood

#2. If you chose to serve in Congress or on a congressional staff, you should be barred for life from working for any company, organization, or association which lobbies the federal government.

Jack Abramoff

#3. What misery to be afraid of death.
What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven.

Mary Oliver

#4. TRUTH may hurt temporarily, but LIES leave marks permanently.

Shiv Khera

#5. Don't look at the shadows too long or a demon might look back.

Rosamund Hodge

#6. As a former minority leader who became the first Republican Speaker of the House in Florida since Reconstruction, I know that leadership is not an easy task.

Dan Webster

#7. People need medicine and they need therapists.

Mickey Rourke

#8. There is nothing in the way of amelioration of the conditions of life, of politics, of social and ethical matters, that may not be affected through the skilful application of those principles of advertising that, in business, have proved to be so wonderfully effective.

George Arthur French

#9. Marvelous oriental pace he's got, just like a Buddhist statue.

Harry Carpenter

#10. The American people will be appalled to learn the health care bill exempts (congressional) leadership and committee staff.

Tom Coburn

#11. When I was elected, I was the youngest member of the Tennessee congressional delegation; now, I'm one of the oldest. In fact, I have members of my staff who weren't even born when I took office. That tells me it's time for a new chapter.

Bart Gordon

#12. There are people we have never seen who are busy thinking up things we should be worried about.

Naomi Shihab Nye

#13. Ocean privilege does not exist anymore. The world is small. We cannot rely on distance anymore.

Greg Gutfeld

#14. (On returning to Austin to run at his collegiate stadium) It is almost like coming home with the crowd, the people, and it just brings it home for me. For me, it is a very special place, it is great energy, and again I always seem to run very well here. So I love coming back.

Leonel Manzano

#15. Anything my staff does in my office is pursuant to congressional rules.

Sheila Jackson Lee

#16. When you work in the White House you talk to the White House staff all day, so you're talking to the guy who handles the congressional liaison and the guy who's handling domestic politics and the guy who's handling the American economy and so forth.

Elliott Abrams

#17. 'The Tree of Life' is a collection of conversations that lost souls and true believers have with themselves while keeping their heads to the sky. But the movie is church via the planetarium.

Wesley Morris