Congress is the most powerful branch. It can expand a progressive society, or it can block a progressive society.
That's one of the major lessons: no president should ever take this nation to war without full public debate in the Congress andor in the public.
It's hard for the White House to regain momentum if the Congress is in disarray. It ties up the Republicans in Congress and limits their ability to execute any White House agenda.
That might be between BJP and Kejriwal. So far as Congress party is concerned, we are fighting this election to win.
They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
My father ran for Congress in 2004, and I got a sense that there is no way to achieve much success without a certain amount of compromise.
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.
I came to Congress to help reduce spending.
Could Congress really do its work if it held its sessions by teleconferencing? Could the Supreme Court? Nothing can replace the spark of intelligence that travels from person to person at meetings.
Financial markets are supposed to swing like a pendulum: They may fluctuate wildly in response to exogenous shocks, but eventually they are supposed to come to rest at an equilibrium point and that point is supposed to be the same irrespective of the interim fluctuations. Instead, as I told Congress, financial markets behaved more like a wrecking ball, swinging from country to country and knocking over the weaker ones. It is difficult to escape the conclusion that the international financial system itself constituted the main ingredient in the meltdown process.
We all joke about Congress but we can't improve on them. Have you noticed that no matter who we elect, he is just as bad as the one he replaces?
I like shitty strip clubs. They look like what they are. I know what to expect. Unlike Congress, at least we know everybody is for sale.
F. D. R. had to deal with Southern segregationists - and outright racists - who held power in Congress, so he had to yield to that power in order to get his New Deal legislation passed.
I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.
That's what a Congressman or a Senator is for -- to see that too much money don't accumulate in the national Treasury.
There are so many women on the floor of Congress, it looks like a mall
It's a lie! I am not an anti-Semite. The World Jewish Congress supported me and said that I am not anti-Semitic.
I know that Congress will do the right thing.
All I can say is that with business and the interest of any party before me, I will consider and apply the law as it is written by Congress and informed by precedent.
We've got a tax code that is encouraging flight of jobs and outsourcing. And that's why we've specifically recommended. . . that Congress change our tax code so that we stop giving tax breaks to companies that are moving to Mexico and China and other places, and start putting those tax breaks into companies that are investing here in the United States.