Before being elected to Congress, I oversaw the Cook County Hospital System as a Cook County Commissioner for 10 years. – Mike Quigley
Well, I mean, Congress did originally set the formula for the state grants, and they guaranteed every state a minimum formula. So that was a congressional decision. – Michael Chertoff
I have an ability to work collegially across a wide range of interests in the caucus and in the Congress, and an ability to work on a bipartisan basis. Appropriators pride themselves on that. – Marcy Kaptur
There have been high crimes and misdemeanors, but they have been committed by the special prosecutor and the Congress, not the president. – Donella Meadows
When you’re elected to Congress, you take a vow to uphold the Constitution and its system of checks and balances. That vow doesn’t say, ‘Unless it’s politically uncomfortable.’ – Chellie Pingree
The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that’s going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress. – Mitch McConnell
Originally, Congress provided in 1793 that all foreign coins circulating in the United States be legal tender. Indeed, foreign coins have been estimated to form 80 percent of American domestic specie circulation in 1800. – Murray Rothbard
Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state. – Dean Rusk
I have one desire: That is to have a principle-based, member-driven Congress. Period. That’s what I want. – Dan Webster
When Congress legislates in haste, it often causes more problems than it solves. But Congress rarely reconsiders its mistakes. – David Malpass
It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one’s friends. – George Will
I was elected six times to represent southern Arizona, in the State Legislature and then in Congress. – Gabrielle Giffords
It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-biased media and the homosexuals who want to destroy all Christians. – Pat Robertson
I’m probably one of the only people who has voted for the speaker of the House but didn’t serve in Congress. – Martha McSally
Congress has greatly tightened the loopholes terrorists can use to harm Americans. We need to do more. We need controls immediately on what forms of ID are adequate to board planes and enter secure sites. – Elton Gallegly
One of the first members of Congress I met when I was first elected in 2008 was Barney Frank. – Chellie Pingree
Redistricting and a broken, polarized Congress have made it tough to be a moderate in Congress. – Mike Ross