“There's no conscious plan here; my whole life in politics as a state legislator and in Congress has been about strengthening the middle class.” Has BeensStatesWholeClassPlansMiddleConsciousCongressWhole LifeMiddle ClassLegislatorsStrengthening Author:Peter Welch
“Too many members of Congress are too involved in grabbing what they can for their states or districts without enough emphasis on overall fiscal restraint for the sake of the nation as a whole. We need a new era of fiscal sanity. I am not willing to subject my children and grandchildren to the level of debt that Congress has created.” NeedsChildrenStatesEnoughWholeNationsLevelsSubjectsWillingInvolvedMembersSakeCongressDebtErasMy ChildrenSanityRestraintGrandchildrenEmphasisChildren And GrandchildrenNew EraGrabbing Author:John Ensign
“See where Congress passed a two billion dollar bill to relieve bankers' mistakes. You can always count on us helping those who have lost part of their fortune, but our whole history records nary a case where the loan was for the man who had absolutely nothing. Our theory is to help only those who can get along, even if they don't get a loan.” IfsMenTwoWholeHelpingLostMistakeCasesRecordsHe ManTheoryBillsDollarsFortuneCongressBillionsLoanBankersAbsolutely NothingDollar Bills Book:Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...) Source: Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)
“The drug war isn't what purports to be. If you look at the whole operation and the tie-in between the American intelligence agencies, these so-called "assets", the spies on the payroll of the CIA, and drug dealers. Don't let members of Congress and the media get away with this complacency and distortion!” IfsLooksWarWholeMediaDrugMembersLet MeCongressOperationsTiesAgencyGet AwayAssetsSpyComplacencyCiaDistortionDealerWar On DrugsDrug DealersPayrollIntelligence Agencies Author:Jerry Brown
“I say, of the Congress, then, this - that its aims are mistaken, that the spirit in which it proceeds towards their accomplishment is not a spirit of sincerity and whole-heartedness, and that the methods it has chosen are not the right methods, and the leaders in whom it trusts, not the right sort of men to be leaders; - in brief, that we are at present the blind led, if not by the blind, at any rate by the one-eyed.” IfsMenWholeSpiritLeaderAimMethodBlindRateCongressChosenAccomplishmentSincerityMistaken Author:Sri Aurobindo
“And then there's this guy, Barack Obama, who lost - I could take up a whole afternoon talking about his failures, but - he lost his first race for Congress, and now he gets to call himself my husband.” FirstsWholeGuyLostRaceTalkingHusbandCongressBarackMy HusbandAfternoonThis Guy Author:Michelle Obama
“During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.” ImportantCountryStatesWholeFunnyMovingGrowthUnitedUnited StatesEconomicInternetCreatingEnvironmentalCongressEducationalProtectionImprovementMoving ForwardOur CountryRangeInitiativeProvenEconomic GrowthGoreEducational SystemEnvironmental Protection Author:Al Gore
“I'll tell you what the fair tax does, it empowers the consumer and it lets people have their whole paycheck and it takes the power out of the hands of Congress and puts it in the hands of the consumer. That's power to the people.” PeopleDoeWholeHandsTaxesFairsCongressConsumersEmpoweringPaychecks Author:Mike Huckabee
“I think that there's been a lot of people in Congress that didn't know all the ins and outs of the Constitution. I think we have a whole roomful of people that have record legislation in terms of quantity of pages that didn't read it.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWholeTermRecordsPagesConstitutionCongressQuantityLegislation Author:Rick Santelli