Quotes About Congress Today

#1. The average 20-year-old serving us in Iraq knows more about their country's national security than the average 20-year political veteran serving in the Congress today.

Fred Thompson

#2. Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.

F. Lee Bailey

#3. We know of no more crucial civil rights issue facing Congress today than the need to increase the federal minimum wage and extend its coverage.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#4. A senator got up today in Congress and called his fellow senators sons of wild jackasses. Now, if you think the senators were hot, imagine how the jackasses must feel.

Will Rogers

#5. Today more people lose their seats in the Politburo in Havana than in the Congress of America, ... We need to have competitive races for the Legislature ... We have to have a clash of ideas.

John McCain

#6. America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress' action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols.

Bill Shuster

#7. Real scientists investigate parts, not wholes. But this diminishes the goals of true science. What most scientists are doing today really should be called technology, not science.

T. Colin Campbell

#8. Were I to sum up the Basle Congress in a word- which I shall guard against pronouncing publicly- it would be this: 'At Basle, I founded the Jewish State. If I said this out loud today, I would be answered by universal laughter. If not in 5 years, certainly in 50, everyone will know it.'

Theodor Herzl

#9. Immigration reforms are always controversial. Our Congress was created to muster political will to answer such challenges. Today we didn't, but tomorrow we will. I yield the floor.

Edward Kennedy

#10. Today was opening day for the new Congress in Washington. And Vice President Joe Biden swore in the new batch of White House fence jumpers.

David Letterman

#11. He is not worthy of the honey-comb, that shuns the hives because the bees have stings.

William Shakespeare

#12. The Pentagon today will not allow any of these people who work for the Pentagon, to talk to the media. They have gagged them from talking to members of Congress.

Curt Weldon

#13. The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today.

Marty Meehan

#14. Health care for all Americans is the most pressing domestic issue today. It's far past time for the President and Congress to deliver health care to everyone.

Russ Feingold

#15. It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.

Earl Warren

#16. Today the people from my State of Tennessee would listen to this debate, or even talk about a reference to God on our money or in the Halls of Congress or in our Pledge and say, please, let common sense and logic win the day and prevail versus legal mumbo jumbo.

Zach Wamp

#17. Having a Congress with a more diverse educational and professional background would serve the country well. And given the budget challenges facing America today, we might benefit from a few more cold, calculating problem solvers, and fewer courtroom impresarios.

John Sununu

#18. Just because Congress passes a law and says it's all right to do a certain thing does not mean that it's all right to do it. Abortion is still just as wrong today as it was the first day of January, 1973.

Shelton Smith

#19. If there ever is government-run health care, the first ones to sign up should be the president and every member of Congress, including myself. You should be able to keep the insurance you've got today, if you like it, and always choose your own doctor.

Mike Ross

#20. Today, as an independent, an entrepreneur, and a former mayor, I believe we need a president who is a problem solver, not a bomb thrower. Someone who can bring members of Congress together to get things done. And I know Hillary Clinton can do that because I saw it firsthand.

Michael Bloomberg

#21. Liberals in Congress have spent the past three decades pandering to environmental extremists. The policies they have put in place are in large part responsible for the energy crunch we are seeing today. We have not built a refinery in this country for 30 years.

Marsha Blackburn

#22. Today it is difficult to find leaders who are independent of the forces that have brought us our problems: The Congress, the bureaucracy, the lobbyists, big business, and big labor.

Ronald Reagan

#23. START LOVING FAILURES
THEN FAILURES WILL START HATING YOU

Rahul

#24. Lie on your back and look at the stars.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#25. Honesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#26. President Bush has urged people to get back to normal and today Congress announced that they are accepting bribes again.

Jay Leno

#27. The Court today holds the Congress may say that some of the poor are too poor even to go bankrupt. I cannot agree.

Potter Stewart

#28. I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times of hope. Of despair and of achievement. I have seen our government at its best, but today I fear that we see our government at its worst.

Robert Byrd

#29. Today I am announcing that I will not seek a tenth term in the United States Congress this November.

Lincoln Diaz-Balart

#30. All powers, all laws, are but the fair Embodied thoughts of God.

John Stuart Blackie

#31. The bill Congress sent me would take away one of the most valuable tools in the war on terror ... so today I vetoed it

George W. Bush

#32. I think President Obama is trying to deceive the public in pretending that he was not a part of Congress that has made some decisions in the past that got us to where we are today.

Sarah Palin

#33. We deeply regret that some Senators are still willing to do Big Oil?s bidding, and we now turn to the House where the Arctic drilling scheme should be dead on arrival. Americans are clamoring for a clean Congress and a clean energy plan, but sadly they were shortchanged on both today.

Carl Pope