“We have the Israelis coming to us for equipment. We can say we can't possibly get the Congress to support a program like this. And they say don't worry about the Congress. We will take care of the Congress. This is somebody from another country, but they can do it. They own, you know, the banks in this country. The newspapers. Just look at where the Jewish money is.” KnowsLooksCountryCareCan DoWorrySupportProgramCongressJewTake CareNewspapersEquipment Author:George Scratchley Brown
“If India is computer, Congress is its default program.” IfsComputerProgramIndiaCongressDefault Author:Rahul Gandhi
“The programs that have been discussed over the last couple days in the press are secret in the sense that they are classified but they are not secret in the sense that when it comes to phone calls every member of Congress has been briefed on this program. With respect to all these programs the relevant intelligence committees are fully briefed on these programs. These are programs that have been authorized by broad bipartisan majorities repeatedly since 2006.” Has BeensLastsSecretCoupleMembersProgramMajorityPressesCongressPhonesBroadsRelevantCommitteesPhone CallsNsaBipartisan Author:Barack Obama
“This year, the United States renewed funding of reproductive healthcare through the United Nations Population Fund, and more funding is on the way. The U.S. Congress recently appropriated more than $648 million in foreign assistance to family planning and reproductive health programs worldwide. That's the largest allocation in more than a decade - since we last had a Democratic president, I might add.” WayYearsStatesMightLastsNationsPresidentUnitedMillionsUnited StatesProgramAddDemocraticCongressPopulationDecadesPlanningFundHealthcareAssistanceUnited NationsFundingPopulation ControlFamily PlanningWorld PopulationAllocationReproductive Health Author:Hillary Clinton
“I strongly support SNAP and will continue to urge my colleagues in Congress to provide adequate funding to this important program.” ImportantSupportProgramCongressUrgesColleaguesAdequateFundingSnaps Author:Dan Maffei
“We waited for Congress to act. They couldn't act on the issue. So I just went ahead and signed an executive order which will unleash - [applause] - which says the federal agencies will not discriminate against faith-based programs. They ought to welcome the armies of compassion as opposed to turning them away.” HumorPoliticalOrderCompassionIssuesOughtProgramArmyCongressWelcomeAgencyExecutivesApplausePolitical HumorFaith BasedExecutive Orders Author:George W. Bush
“Unfortunately, the (budget) does not . . . help Congress reform such programs as Medicaid and Medicare, which both grow at average rate of around 8 percent each year through 2015 and will continue to eat up more of the total federal budget.” YearsDoeHelpingGrowsPercentProgramRateCongressAverageReformBudgetsMedicareMedicaid Author:John Cornyn
“Congress is thinking about eliminating a federal program under which scientists broadcast signals to Alien beings. This would be a large mistake. Alien beings have atomic blaster death cannons. You cannot cut off their federal programs as if they were merely poor people.” PeopleIfsThinkingWould BePoorMistakeCuttingProgramScientistCongressAliensSignalsPoor PeopleEliminatingCannons Author:Dave Barry
“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.” PeopleUseWould BeValuesStrongPeaceFreedomWeekEconomicMiddleSecurityRepublicanToughProgramPressesDemocratCongressDetailsEastNuclearAdministrationReliefRegionsRegimesMiddle EastBehalfIranianParametersUnansweredStand StrongTough Questions Author:John Boehner
“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.” IfsWantSocialPayTalkingSecurityProgramDollarsCongressBillionsMessRetirementSocial SecurityObamacareMedicare 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.” StatesProgramCongressRetirementDisagreeGovernors Author:Chris Christie
“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.” IfsWantedFunnyTeamSummerProgramAddCongressThroatOlympicsCabinetsVolleyballReaganomics Author:Bob Hope
“There are some things that you can always bet on. One is that when Congress comes up with a new program it never works right over the long haul. Another is, when Congress goes to fix the mess it has made the mess only gets worse.” LongMadeProgramCongressCome UpMessHaulLong Haul Author:Lyn Nofziger
“Everybody complains about pork, but members of Congress keep spending because voters do not throw them out of office for doing so. The rotten system in Congress will change only when the American people change their beliefs about the proper role of government in our society. Too many members of Congress believe they can solve all economic problems, cure all social ills, and bring about worldwide peace and prosperity simply by creating new federal programs. We must reject unlimited government and reassert the constitutional rule of law if we hope to halt the spending orgy.” PeopleIfsBelieveProblemGovernmentLawBeliefSocialRolesEconomicMembersOfficeCreatingProgramCongressProsperitySolveSpendingComplainingCuresOur SocietyRejectsVotersUnlimitedRottenRule Of LawHaltLimited GovernmentPorkEconomic ProblemsRole Of Government Author:Ron Paul
“Too many members of Congress believe they can solve all economic problems, cure all social ills, and bring about worldwide peace and prosperity simply by creating new federal programs.” BelieveProblemSocialEconomicMembersCreatingProgramCongressProsperitySolveCuresEconomic Problems Author:Ron Paul
“The death of American liberalism as a significant moral force can be traced to the point in when President Bill Clinton signed legislation that effectively ended the main federal anti-poverty program and turned the fate of welfare recipients, 70 percent of whom were children, over to the tender mercies of the states. With a stroke of the pen, Clinton eliminated what remained of New Deal-era compassion for the poor and codified into law the "tough love" callousness that his Republican allies in the Congress, led by Newt Gingrich, had long embraced.” ChildrenLongStatesLawForcePresidentPoorDealsCompassionMoralPovertyFateRepublicanPercentToughProgramMercyBillsClintonCongressSignificantErasWelfareLiberalismPensAlliesLegislationStrokesNewtsNew DealTough LoveCallousnessPresident Bill ClintonTender MerciesWelfare Recipients Author:Robert Scheer
“If Senator Rubio were doing his job and in Congress more, he might know that the program 'phone records of a potential terrorist cause' continues. It's been ongoing for the last six months. So the Paris tragedy, this tragedy happened while we were still doing bulk collection, all bulk collection. Also in France, they have a program a thousand-fold more invasive, collecting all of the data of all of the French.” IfsKnowsStillsMightJobsLastsCausesRecordsHappenedMonthsThousandSixProgramTragedyCongressPhonesTerroristDataFranceParisCollectionsSenatorsSix MonthsOngoingFoldsCollecting Author:Rand Paul
“The real problem is Barack Obama has had six years to advocate a position to fix this and he's done nothing. The congress has funded these programs of building more fencing and doing all this and he hasn't done it.” YearsRealDoneProblemPositionBuildingSixProgramCongressBarackHaving FunReal ProblemsFencing Author:Jeb Bush
“Republican Congressman Pete Hoekstra has charged the Bush administration with keeping programs secret from Congress. Somehow no one from Congress reads the New York Times, I guess.” SecretNew YorkRepublicanProgramCongressAdministrationNew York TimesCongressman Author:Jay Leno
“It's what [Barak] Obama was complaining about. All this is now up to the voters - who, of course, the Democrats do not trust. People who would have benefited from the programs face no imminent threat of deportation because Congress has provided money to deal with only a small percentage of people who live in the country illegally.” PeopleCountryFacesCoursesDealsProgramThreatDemocratCongressComplainingVotersPercentagesDeportationBarak Obama Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I'm not so optimistic as to think that you would ever be able to garner a majority of an American Congress that would make those kinds of investments above and beyond the kinds of investments that could be made in a progressive program for lifting up all people.” PeopleThinkingKindMadeAbleProgramMajorityInvestmentCongressOptimisticProgressiveLiftingAbove And BeyondLifting Up Author:Barack Obama
“The chairs [in Congress] are part of the "Gang of Eight." They get briefed on every covert-action program and everything like that. They know where all the bodies are buried. At the same time, they get far more campaign donations than anybody else from defense contractors, from intelligence corporations, from private military companies.” KnowsBodyActionCompanyMilitaryProgramCongressEightDefenseCampaignsCorporationsChairsBuriedGangDonationContractorCovert Author:Edward Snowden
“President Barack Obama couldn't bring everything into existence through Congress. Because from the day that he was elected president of the United States, the United States Congress, many of the Republicans met, and they declared that they would never allow his legislative program to succeed. And for eight years they fought him.” YearsStatesPresidentUnitedExistenceUnited StatesRepublicanMetsSucceedProgramCongressEightBarackPresident Barack Obama Author:Louis Farrakhan
“It should be appreciated that if the arrangement on Iran's nuclear program collapses after being so patiently negotiated, and successfully implemented since 2014 despite the intense opposition of Netanyahu's Israel and its American loyalists in Congress, it would be widely perceived around the world as a huge setback in the search for regional stability and the struggle to prevent any further spread of nuclear weapons.” IfsWorldShouldWould BeStruggleHugeWeaponsProgramCongressIsraelSpreadNuclearIntenseDespiteAround The WorldOppositionIranStabilityCollapseNuclear WeaponsArrangementsAppreciatedSetbackLoyalists Author:Richard A. Falk
“We have depended on government for so much for so long that we as people have become less vigilant of our liberties. As long as the government provides largesse for the majority, the special interest lobbyists will succeed in continuing the redistribution of welfare programs that occupies most of Congress's legislative time.” PeopleLongGovernmentInterestLibertySpecialSucceedProgramMajorityCongressCommunismWelfareContinuingSpecial InterestsVigilantLobbyistsWelfare ProgramsLargesse Author:Ron Paul
“Conservatives and liberals are kindred spirits as far as government spending is concerned. First, let's make sure we understand what government spending is. Since government has no resources of its own, and since there's no Tooth Fairy handing Congress the funds for the programs it enacts, we are forced to recognize that government spending is no less than the confiscation of one person's property to give it to another to whom it does not belong - in effect, legalized theft.” GivingFirstsPersonsDoeGovernmentSpiritLibertyEffectsResourcesConcernedProgramEconomicsPropertyCongressSpendingLibertarianTeethFairyFundLibertarianismTheftKindredGovernment ProgramsGovernment SpendingTooth FairyKindred Spirit Author:Walter E. Williams
“With control of the universe at stake, a crash program is imperative.We produced the A-bomb, under the huge Manhattan Project, in an amazingly short time. The needs, the urgency today are even greater. The Air Force should end UFO secrecy, give the facts to scientists,the public, to Congress. Once the people realize the truth, they would back, even demand a crash program...for this is one race we dare not lose.” PeopleNeedsGivingShouldEndsFactsTodayUniverseForceRealizingLosesRaceGreaterAirHugeDemandProjectsProgramScientistCongressDareBombsStakesCrashSecrecyImperativesUfoUrgencyManhattanShort TimeAir ForceExtraterrestrialManhattan Project Author:Donald Keyhoe