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• The tax relief that this Congress has given now in terms of four tax cuts has overwhelmingly gone to the people at the very top of the income scale in America.

  Richard Neal

  Topics in America

  Tags in Congress, Gone

• I’ve reached out to other mayors throughout the United States to form an Olympic Task Force of Mayors, and to community leaders, Congress, and businesspeople. As thousands of people around the country join the movement, it gets more and more exciting.

  Richard M. Daley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Around, Congress

• I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us.

  Eric Himpton Holder Jr.

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Penalty, Law, Congress

• I mean, look, Nancy Pelosi said in the very beginning this is going to be the most open, honest and ethical Congress in history. And what we’re seeing is she’s breaking that promise every day.

  Eric Ivan Cantor

  Topics in History

  Tags in Person, Ethical, Congress

• So I’m asking Congress, please investigate this now. Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency and give me a better idiot. Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don’t give me the same idiot.

  Aaron Broussard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Congress, Investigate, Sensitive

• Bureaucracy has murdered people in the greater New Orleans area. And bureaucracy needs to stand trial before Congress today. So I’m asking Congress, please investigate this now. Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency and give me a better idiot. Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don’t give me the same idiot.

  Aaron Broussard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Bureaucracy, Congress, People

• Congress: Bingo with billions.

  Red Skelton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Congress

• American boys should not be seen dying on the nightly news. Wars should be over in three days or less, or before Congress invokes the War Powers Resolution.

  Evan Welling Thomas III

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, News, Congress

• The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress.

  Caleb Cushing

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Congress, People

• The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Topics in America, Money

  Tags in Congress, Economics, Day

• Its a sad day when you have members of Congress who are literally criminals go undisciplined by their colleagues. No wonder people look at Washington and know this city is broken.

  John Kerry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Congress, Washington, Corruption

• I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

  Ronald Reagan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Congress, Times, Like, Looked

• There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Congress, Continuously, Incessantly, Hate, Relationship, Look

• We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.

  William O. Douglas

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Congress, Law And Lawyers

• The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

  Hendrik Willem van Loon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Than, Debates, Congress, Barometer, Arts, Our, World, Better, Happening, Even, Stock, Market

• There are no ideas in the Republican Party right now in the Congress. They’re the party of no. They desperately need some intellectual leadership. And whatever you think of Newt Gingrich, he can supply intellectual leadership. So I hope he does run.

  Howard Dean

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Congress, Party, Ideas

• To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

  Wendell Phillips

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Congress, Talk, Place

• Talk is cheap – except when Congress does it.

  Cullen Hightower

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Congress, Except, Talk

• Whether we like it or not, men have more of the offices, more of the higher jobs, more of the seats in Congress. Men need to re-examine what their power is. We need to understand how to use it.

  James Hillman

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Congress, Examine, Offices, Seats, Understand

• The mistakes made by Congress wouldn’t be so bad if the next Congress didn’t keep trying to correct them.

  Cullen Hightower

  Topics in Mistake

  Tags in Congress, Trying