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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

I could say, as a member of Congress, we usually get an alert if something is going to happen at the Capitol. — Barack Obama

During my first term in Congress, I signed a pledge that I will take no more earmarks and I've been faithful to that pledge. — Michele Bachmann

It is not true that Congress spends money like a drunken sailor. Drunken sailors spend their own money. Congress spends our money. — Arthur Laffer

Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes. — Dave Reichert

Congress should get the job done. — Jacob Lew

A compromise is but an act of Congress. It may be overruled at any time. It gives us no security. But the Constitution is stable. It is a rock. — John C. Calhoun

I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan. — Everett Dirksen

Congress is going to start tinkering with the Ten Commandments just as soon as they find someone in Washington who has read them. — Will Rogers

Congress is not an ATM. — Robert Byrd

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

I would rather be known as 'Jim Kolbe, the trade expert in Congress who happens to be gay,' rather than 'Jim Kolbe, gay congressman from Arizona.' — Jim Kolbe

I submit to you, Mr. President of Congress, my formal resignation as president of the republic. — Alberto Fujimori

Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected. — Charles Krauthammer

[Campaign sign when running for Congress in 1967:] Vote for me or I will hold my breath until I turn blue. — Shirley Temple

Simply, with a Republican Congress sitting shotgun, Mitt Romney will put the middle class on the roof and take us for a long, painful ride. — Patty Murray

Despite the goings-on in Congress, I don't believe the USA is bordering on madness. I believe Mexico and Canada are. — Robert Breault

The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors. — Ambrose Bierce

Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores. — Ray Bradbury

America was not willing to chop down the Empire on October 26, 1774, but it was gripping the ax. — C.L. Gammon

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress. — Wendell Phillips

I have served in the Congress during two wars and I have seen the impacts on our military, on their families and on our national deficit. — Tom Udall

Congress allows lemonade to the members and has it charged under the head of stationery-I move also that whiskey be allowed under the item of fuel. — Davy Crockett

That's what mayors do. They lobby Congress to provide resources for their city. — Maxine Waters

The US is safest when Congress is in recess. — Will Rogers

Five people in robes said they are bigger than the voters of California and Congress combined. And bigger than God. May He forgive us all. — Mike Huckabee

I met Jack Kennedy in November, 1946. We were both war heroes, and both of us had just been elected to Congress. — Norman Mailer

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

We have some Jewish members of Congress, not a lot but there's a bunch of us. — Gary Ackerman

Those of us who are pro-life should demand more from Congress. — Justin Amash

Write to your newspaper. Call your Member of Congress. Email President Obama. Speak out for a cleaner, more stable future for all of us. — Frances Beinecke

We have gone into a war, an unelected president sending us into a war that the Congress frankly had no right, I believe, to authorize. — Carol Moseley Braun

There are people in Congress who aren't very bright. In fact, some of them are just plain brain-dead. — Neal Boortz

[It is not the purpose nor right of Congress] to attend to what generosity and humanity require, but to what the Constitution and their duty require. — William Branch Giles

One of my top priorities in Congress is to reduce U.S. dependence on fossil fuels. — Lincoln Diaz-Balart

I have a reputation for being the hardest working person in Congress. — Shelley Berkley

I guess the optimistic thing is that those people in Congress who are climate deniers, I think their time has run out. — Robert Redford

If we could manage our own finances the way the Congress does the nation's, we'd all be living in high cotton and eating high on the hog. — Charley Reese

Congress would give the people what they wanted if the people knew what they wanted, and if Congress could give it to them. — Evan Esar

One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one. — James Madison

In 2010, we have to focus on electing a new Congress and in 2012 we have to focus on electing a new president. — Andrew P. Harris

Some members of Congress are among the best actors in the world. — Shirley Chisholm

I think it's difficult for members of Congress to be as independent as they need to be in their voting. — Jim Moran

Congress shall never disarm any citizen unless such as are or have been in actual rebellion. — James Madison

Hurray! Congress is to adjourn! Only four more days of Congressional burglary on the Treasury! — Will Rogers

Granting such immunity undermines the constitutional protections Americans trust the Congress to protect. — Barack Obama

Serving in Congress is like having a second shot at high school. — Barney Frank

If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't. — Nate Silver

The Congress has now become a fairly evenly divided entity. — John Dingell

For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain from. — Mahatma Gandhi

Forget public service. We all come here with good intentions, but as time passes, it becomes all about self-service and selfish survival. — Congressman X

The thing they're trying to stop is 30-million people getting health insurance. That's the substance. — Chris Hayes

Let's not forget that Congress bears a lot of responsibility for many of the problems we have now — Colin Powell

Congress must also enact pro-growth policies that encourage the economy to expand: like making tax relief permanent and repealing the death tax. — Michael Steele