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“The president is eager to get to work and looks forward to working with the new Congress on policies that will make sure middle-class Americans are sharing in the economic recovery, but the president is clear that he will not let this Congress undo important protections gained -- particularly in areas of health care, Wall Street reform and the environment.”

Looks Important Care President Class Clear Environment Economic Streets Middle Policy Health Wall Areas Congress Protection Recovery Reform Health Care Middle Class Economic Recovery

Author:Barack Obama

“There were two unpleasant surprises [about Washington]. One was the inertia of Congress, the length of time it takes to get a complicated piece of legislation through ... and the other was the irresponsibility of the press.”

Two Pieces Presses Surprise Congress Complicated Length Legislation Inertia Irresponsibility

Author:Jimmy Carter

“This habit of free speaking at ladies' lunches has impaired society; it has doubtless led to many of the tragedies of divorce and marital unhappiness. Could society be deaf and dumb and Congress abolished for a season, what a happy and peaceful life one could lead!”

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Author:M. E. W. Sherwood

“Numbered among our population are some 12,000,000 colored people. Under our Constitution their rights are just as sacred as those of any other citizen. It is both a public and a private duty to protect those rights. The Congress ought to exercise all its powers of prevention and punishment against the hideous crime of lynching, of which the negroes are by no means the sole sufferers, but for which they furnish a majority of the victims.”

People Mean Rights Crime Duty Ought Citizens Exercise Protect Constitution Victim Sacred Majority Congress Population Punishment Sole Hideous Prevention Sufferers Lynching

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“I tend to avoid the shows that focus on politics, just to get a break from it all, i tried watching the first couple episodes of 'House of Cards,' but I thought it was way over the top. Members of Congress aren't anything like Frank Underwood. Most of us are far less interesting.”

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Author:Paul Ryan

“In this time of challenge, I am asking the prime minister to address Congress on the grave threats radical Islam and Iran pose to our security and way of life.”

Way Life Challenges Security Asking Threat Islam Congress Graves Radical Ministers Addresses Iran Prime Prime Minister Radical Islam

Author:John Boehner

“It would be naïve to suggest the Iranian regime will not continue to use its nuclear program, and any economic relief, to further destabilize the region, in the weeks ahead, Republicans and Democrats in Congress will continue to press the Obama administration on the details of these parameters and the tough questions that remain unanswered. We will stand strong on behalf of the American people and everyone in the Middle East who values freedom, security, and peace.”

“One would hope that you would have a CBO director who does not let ideology get in the way of making good estimates. [Congress] values having a credible institution that they can rely on to give them the best estimates possible.”

Way Giving Doe Values Directors Institutions Congress Ideology Rely Credible

Author:Alice Rivlin

“Developing compassion for Congress and politicians is a good way to begin practicing the new social activism if you want to make effective changes in the world. Perhaps the most startling new insight of all is that there is no other way to effectively change the world.”

Ifs World Way Want Social Compassion Politician Congress Insight Activism Developing Changing The World Good Way Social Activism

Author:Gary Zukav

“By 1990, the EPA had tallied up 32,645 sites of past chemical waste dumping in need of cleanup. Some of these are actual waste landfills, but many are former manufacturing sites where drums full of chemicals have been simply abandoned. The names of the most notorious appear on the EPS's National Priorities List. These are the so-called Superfund sites, names for the super fund of money put together by Congress in 1980 to clean them up. In 2009, the Superfund list contained 1,331 sites.”

Source: Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment

“One ironic legacy of the Clinton administration is the rearming of the American citizenry. Each time Clinton and his friends in Congress threaten another round of anti-gun regulations, the American people respond by stocking up.”

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Author:Llewellyn Rockwell

“So the villains aren't gay-hating Islamists or women killing tyrants, but actually us: an American Congress bent on the apocalypse. Don't we understand? Iranians love their children too.”

Children Hate Gay Killing Congress Tyrants Villain Bent Apocalypse Islamists

Author:Greg Gutfeld

“Every politician just has to remember how he got his position in the first place. A young candidate running for Congress or any outsider interested in public office could only achieve his goals by relying on soft power. They could not force anyone to vote for them. They needed to convince their potential voters, they needed to do fundraising, they needed to be attractive candidates.”

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Author:Joseph Nye

“If Congress wants to mess with the retirement program, why don't we let them start by changing their retirement program, and not have one, instead of talking about getting rid of Social Security and Medicare that was robbed $700 billion dollars to pay for Obamacare.”

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Author:Mike Huckabee

“I don't disagree with ending Congress' retirement program. I'm a governor, I don't have a retirement program in my state, and I don't disagree with that.”

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Author:Chris Christie

“I would a whole lot rather had Carly Fiorina over there doing our negotiation than John Kerry. Maybe we would've gotten a deal where we didn't give everything away. But the issue for us is to have a Congress that stands up and says not only no, but "Hell no" to this money going to a [Iran] regime that is going to use it for terror...”

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Author:Rick Perry

“All human life at every stage of its development is worthy of protection.”

Humans Stage Development Congress Worthy Protection Human Life

Author:Marco Rubio

“What are the moral implications? What do these people do when they have tremendous amounts of money? They use that money to perpetuate their own wealth and their own power. Every day, Congress works on behalf of big-money interests.”

People Use Bigs Interest Wealth Moral Amount Congress Behalf Implications

Author:Bernie Sanders

“I am willing to work with anybody who wants to have a serious conversation about our fiscal future. We're not going to do this under the threat of blowing up the entire economy. I will not negotiate over Congress' responsibility to pay the bills that have already been racked up. I don't know how I can be more clear about this.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“When you don't have as much debt as we do, we don't have to worry about having this debt ceiling fight every single year. And I really think people are getting sick of having this news cycle every single year from Congress, from the Washington bubble.”

People Thinking Years Fighting Worry News Sick Congress Debt Cycles Bubbles Ceilings Debt Ceiling

Author:Katie Pavlich

“The function of traditional history is to create a citizenry that looks to the top - the president, Congress, the Supreme Court - to make the important decisions. That's what traditional history is all about: the laws that were passed, the decisions made by the court. So much of history is built around "the great men." All of that is very anti-democratic.”

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Author:Howard Zinn

“A man or a woman who serves the country with all his or her heart stands on par with the tallest Congress-man.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be.”

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Book:Gandhi Against Fascism

Source: Gandhi Against Fascism

“Destruction of the churches and the like is not the way to Swaraj as defined by the Congress.”

Way Church Destruction Congress Defined

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“A bogus Congress register can never lead you to Swaraj any more than a paper boat can help you to sail across the Padma.”

Helping Paper Congress Boat Sail Register

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

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

Differences Violence Fundamentals Species Congress Spite Refrain

Book:The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation

Source: The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation

“When real independence comes to India, the Congress and the League will be nowhere unless they represent the real opinion of the country.”

Real Country Opinion India Independence Congress League

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“We had so many different presidents, including Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln - there were other founders like Hamilton, Adams - who made it very clear that the courts can't make a law. The Constitution is expressly clear that that's a power reserved to Congress.”

Made Different Law President Clear Constitution Court Including Congress Made It Founders Reserved Hamilton

Author:Mike Huckabee

“Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders.”

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Author:Bob Inglis

“After the 1984 Summer Olympics, Reagan wanted to add the U.S. volleyball team to his Cabinet. He figured if they can't shove his programs down Congress' throat, nobody can.”

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Author:Bob Hope

“Look. I have always rejected the argument that members of Congress cast their vote because they're Jewish or not Jewish. I didn't cast my vote as a Jewish member of Congress. I cast my vote as a member of Congress.”

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Author:Steve Israel

“A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power, and jealousy will instantly inspire the inclination, to resist the execution of a law which appears to them unjust and oppressive.”

“I didn't want to be president; I didn't want to be governor; I didn't want to be a congress person. I just wanted to be mayor of the city of Detroit. I lived there my entire life.”

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Author:Kwame Kilpatrick

“The Constitution, in addition to delegating certain enumerated powers to Congress, places whole areas outside the reach of Congress' regulatory authority. The First Amendment, for example, is fittingly celebrated for preventing Congress from "prohibiting the free exercise" of religion or "abridging the freedom of speech." The Second Amendment similarly appears to contain an express limitation on the government's authority.”

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Author:Clarence Thomas

“One might plausibly contend that Congress violates the spirit, if not the letter, of the constitutional doctrine of separation of powers when it exonerates itself from the impositions of the laws it obligates people outside the legislature to obey.”

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Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to definition.”

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont

“The 16th Amendment corroded the American concept of natural rights; ultimately reduced the American citizen to a status of subject, so much so that he is not aware of it; enhanced Executive power to the point of reducing Congress to innocuity; and enabled the central government to bribe the states, once independent units, into subservience. No kingship in the history of the world ever exercised more power than our Presidency, or had more of the people's wealth at its disposal.”

Source: Income Tax: Root of All Evil

“The security intended to the general liberty consists in the frequent election and in the rotation of the members of Congress.”

Political Politics Term Liberty Security Members Election Congress Rotation Term Limits

Book:The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States

Source: The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States

“Term limits would make Congress bolder, more independent, and less risk-averse.”

Political Politics Term Risk Limits Independent Congress Term Limits

Author:George Will

“A constitutional amendment for congressional term limits could never achieve the blessing of Congress; it could be initiated only by the states.”

States Political Politics Term Achieve Blessing Limits Congress Amendments Term Limits Constitutional Amendments

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“The member of Congress who is not making a career of politics looks quite differently at the world.”

World Looks Political Politics Term Careers Members Congress Term Limits

Author:Robert Novak

“The voting records of virtually every member of Congress reveal that the oath of office is more a ceremonial gesture than a sacred commitment.”

Political Politics Term Records Members Office Commitment Sacred Congress Voting Gestures Oath Term Limits Oath Of Office

Book:Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders

Source: Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders

“Few things infuse a member of Congress with more courage than self-imposed term limits or an imminent retirement. The issues they choose to focus on in their final months say a great deal about what are really the most important issues in the country.”

Important Self Country Political Politics Term Deals Issues Focus Months Limits Members Finals Congress Retirement Important Issues Term Limits

Book:Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders

Source: Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders

“I would like to believe I would not have behaved differently had I not made a term limits pledge, but my own frailties and human desire for prestige and position tell me my term limits pledge did make a difference in how I approached my job in Congress.”

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Book:Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders

Source: Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders

“I think Churchill is right, the only thing to be said for democracy is that there is nothing else that's any better, and therefore he used to say, Tyranny tempered by assassination, but lots of assassination. People say, If the Congress were more representative of the people it would be better. I say the Congress is too damn representative. It's just as stupid as the people are; just as uneducated, just as dumb, just as selfish.”

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Author:Dean Acheson

“In his mind Vaughan saw the whole world dying in a simultaneous automobile disaster, millions of vehicles hurled together in a terminal congress of spurting loins and engine coolant.”

World Mind Whole Together Millions Saws Dying Congress Disaster Whole World Engines Vehicle Apocalypse Automobile Terminal Simultaneous

Book:Crash: The Collector’s Edition

Source: Crash: The Collector’s Edition

“There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress. The majority consciousness has changed, and often that has made very clear, practical changes in our daily lives, but the centers of power are still not occupied, for the most part, by this new consciousness.”

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Author:Gloria Steinem

“One thing I will not compromise over is whether or not Congress should pay the tab for a bill they've already racked up. If Congress refuses to give the United States the ability to pay its bills on time, the consequences for the entire global economy could be catastrophic.”

Ifs Giving Should States Ability United Pay United States Economy One Thing Consequence Bills Congress Refuse Compromise Global Economy

Author:Barack Obama

“It's a shame that we have to use whatever leverage we have in Congress to get the president to deal with the biggest problem confronting our future. And that's our excessive spending.”

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Author:Mitch McConnell

“There's nothing more powerful than someone who has the disease who can be articulate and go in front of Congress or go to local government and say man, this is what's happening, and it's going to be you.”

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Author:David Hyde Pierce

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