Best Congress Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I enjoy the debate... I haven't met a single person in Congress yet that I dislike. It's not about moderating your views: it's about being able to talk about them and defending them in a way that's uplifting to people.”

“Mr. Speaker, Americans want, need, and rightfully expect Congress to protect them from the prying eyes of identity thieves and give them back control of their Social Security numbers and personal health information.”

“I ran in 2006 as an opponent of the Iraq War, and I came to Congress to change overreliance on U.S. military power.”

“If there ever is government-run health care, the first ones to sign up should be the president and every member of Congress, including myself. You should be able to keep the insurance you've got today, if you like it, and always choose your own doctor.”

“Mr. Obama is particularly well positioned to challenge Hollywood because of his special relationship with the media world's elites. They might be more likely to heed criticism coming from Mr. Obama than from any other president or member of Congress.”

“The ability of Texas Republicans to be effective in Congress is based on having at least 218 Republicans in the House.”

“I said what I said before Congress because I meant every word of it.”

“I want to be at least part of the change in Congress.”

“Over the years, increasing partisanship has led many members of Congress reflexively to speak in favor of any military action launched by presidents of their own party while withholding support to presidents of the opposing party.”

“I am honored to represent New York's 11th Congressional District in Congress, an institution founded on the Greek ideals of representative government.”

“I would like to see this group in this Congress be starting the process to get ourselves on long term fiscal strong footing.”

“Parts of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire next year if Congress doesn't extend them, including the section that guarantees that voting rights will be protected by the federal government.”

“I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it's too late by college.”

“I'm old enough to remember Richard Nixon. They called it the imperial presidency when he was refusing to spend money that Congress had appropriated.”

“The job of every president is to ride herd over Congress.”

“The younger generation has become very nationalistic, self-confident. Increasingly, they do not see the Congress as their party.”

“As you get larger, it is harder to have focused discussions. Because one of the things I've learned about Congress over the past four years that I've been in is there's no shortage of opinions about how things should be done on any particular subject.”

“If I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months.”

“I think the Fight for 15 is a great fight. I think, unfortunately, depending how the Congress works out, we may have to get there in increments.”

“Our opponent and many in Congress criticized our decision to end the Iraq war.”

“Our party is not like the Congress, where leaders are more important than the party and ethics. In our party, people and workers are more important than leaders.”

“Creating a sustainable, economic, social, and ecological environment that provides everyone the opportunity to succeed is my mission in Congress.”

“The NDAA is one of the most significant laws Congress takes on each year.”

“I believe it is our duty in Congress to provide those who have served our nation with the highest level of care, and anything less is a dishonor to their sacrifice.”

“Too many members of Congress seem willing to give corporate polluters, many of whom happen to be major political donors, a free pass to poison the air.”

“We should go forward in courts and Congress with investigations into post-9/11 interrogations and the decisions leading to them.”

“I have one desire: That is to have a principle-based, member-driven Congress. Period. That's what I want.”

“I was in the Minnesota state Senate from 2000 until 2006. In 2006, I was urged to run for Congress, I did. And I've been here ever since.”

“Now I get a very nice salary as a member of Congress, but when I'm in Washington, I sleep in my office.”

“Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.”

“Before you can have an act of Congress, you have to have a Congress willing to act.”

“Increased and better screening for explosives is necessary - and Congress should fund it and TSA should implement it as quickly as possible - however that screening doesn't reduce the risk posed by a trained terrorist with an unconventional weapon.”

“Congress should get the job done.”

“It is an honor and privilege to serve as a member of the 116th Congress.”

“Corruption is everywhere. It's not just in the Congress. Corruption is not just your prerogative or mine.”

“Whenever Congress was in session, we were in Washington. So four months out of the year we were in Tennessee and the rest of the time in Arlington, which is where my mom grew up. Then, of course, in 1992 we moved into the vice president's house in D.C. I was 15 then.”

“Mike Pence, of course, is a governor with executive experience and doing well in a Midwestern state, but also served in Congress. I served with Mike.”

“Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work.”

“And so whether it's failing to move forward on the Dream Act, failing to move forward on putting teachers back to work, failing to do all the things we could do right now to help the economy and middle class, this Congress is just saying no.”

“Because the world we live in is more dangerous than our parents' was, and our children are set to inherit a world more dangerous than ours, Congress must get right our mandated mission to provide for the common defense of our country.”

“I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.”

“It's not all Obama's fault: His plans to rebuild America's energy infrastructure have been hampered by the recession, and his efforts on global warming have been stymied by Tea Party wackos and weak-kneed Democrats in Congress.”

“People have realised that for want of anything substantial, the Congress is using Rafale to question the government. But people are not responding or reacting positively to them. They've had enough of this muck-raking.”

“A lot of people think I'm crazy, you know, leaving a Democratic supermajority state to go to the superminority in Congress.”

“People want the United States Congress focused on creating jobs in this country.”

“I don't want Congress setting monetary policy.”

“I think voters want somebody who understands their problems. You're right that they don't expect the president to fix everything. When he's wrestling with Congress and Wall Street and the rest of the world, they hope he'll be looking at things from their vantage point.”

“It's time for Congress to stop wasting its time and taxpayer money.”

“Every new mother in Congress has had to choose between her family and doing her job. Which, in 2024, should not be the case.”

“I will continue to ask the president and his subordinates to work with Congress rather than against it.”

“I never thought I would run for Congress. If you look back at a certain reality TV show, you know that.”

“I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out, are they pro-America or anti-America? I think people would be - would love to see an expose like that.”

“Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public.”

“Ensuring that our nation's resources are preserved and enhanced for future generations must be a priority for this Congress.”

“Congress must simply do more to eliminate waste and be good stewards of taxpayer dollars.”

“In some ways, Mr. Modi's foreign policy is a continuation of Dr. Manmohan Singh's, and in some ways, it could be that Mr. Modi was repossessing all the non Nehru-Gandhi leaders of the Congress.”

“As a member of Congress, I am part of a large group of elected officials who remain clear-eyed about the threat emanating from Tehran.”

“My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia.”

“A big goal of the liberal Democrats in Congress is to try to do away with any effective cooperation to enforce federal immigration laws.”

“My constituents and I were shocked to learn that hundreds of millions of dollars were being sent to other countries as part of the COVID relief package passed by the last Congress.”

“There are no jobs. People out of sheer frustration say we've seen the Akalis, we've seen the Congress, let's give these guys a chance.”

“As much as the Congress is criticized - and a lot of it is well deserved - the fact is there are many quiet victories if you keep your head down and know how to maneuver in the process and get things done.”

“It's OK to say whatever you want. It's a free country. And it's also OK for the rest of us to say 'We don't like what you're saying.' That's actually our job as members of Congress.”

“When Sondheim was visiting the Library of Congress, where the manuscript of 'Porgy and Bess' is housed, he was so overcome with emotion while holding the score in his hands that he shed a tear. He shed several tears, but one of the tears actually fell onto the original manuscript. And he was horrified.”

“During my years as a practicing lawyer, it just was part of your study of what Congress was trying to say in their statutes. I never really considered judges or scholars as either those who used legislative history or those who were opposed to it until after I got on the court.”

“For a public option, I voted for that when I was in Congress, and the Senate couldn't stand up to the health insurance industry and took it out.”

“Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.”

“One of my top priorities in Congress is making sure every American who wants to serve our country has the opportunity to do so.”

“Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction during their first term in Congress.”

“Why should somebody who joined the Congress three years ago become the president in place of Jakhar who has spent his life in the party?”

“The great American work ethic has not been lost, but it has been eroded by years of dumb government policies that Mr. Trump and Congress can correct.”

“So, Congress passed a law in 1970 - the Occupational Safety and Health Act. And the reason the Department of Labor and OSHA is able to take the strong step to protect Americans from COVID is that Congress passed that law.”

“I do believe systemic racism is real. It's one of the main reasons I'm running for Congress.”

“Richard Nixon is very much a self-made man in the six years prior to his emergence as a national figure. Between the moment he's elected to Congress in 1946 and the moment he's inaugurated as Vice President in 1953, he conducts nothing less than a kind of prodigy of American political self-advancement.”

“I had quit the Congress to form the Progressive Democratic Front in 1978.”

“The Congress may have made mistakes, but their ideology is not wrong.”

“You spend a couple million dollars running for Congress, people get tired of seeing your face.”

“I never envisioned retiring out of the Congress.”

“Representative DeLauro has always been a fighter in Congress on behalf of all the residents of Connecticut.”

“If immigration reform was easy, Congress would have dealt with it 15 years ago.”

“Listening to and learning from employers, workers and educators about issues they face allows me to better represent them and their values in Congress.”

“No one was elected to Congress because he or she promised to cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid.”

“We should be all be treated equally under the law. Why should members of Congress be in Obamacare and not the president?”

“The Congress has never taken a firm stand against communalism.”

“Presidents are evaluated not by what they did by the stroke of their own pen; it's what they persuade Congress to do.”

“I sit on the Drug Policy Subcommittee of the United States Congress. I'm on the speaker's task force. This is something people would rather turn away from and not face, but in fact it is possibly the greatest threat we face.”

“For better or worse, when Sen. Inhofe speaks, the Republican Party follows. And when the Republican Party follows, it is impossible to get real work done in the Congress.”

“Serving our district and military families is a tremendous honor, and as our work continues in Congress, I will continue fighting for a strong national defense.”

“To stabilize the nation's public-employee pension systems and to prevent federal taxpayers from being billed for failed pension funds, I have introduced the Public Employee Pension Transparency Act in Congress.”

“Many good people serve in Congress. They are patriotic, hard-working, and devoted to the public good as they see it, but the institutional and cultural impediments to change frustrate the intentions of these well-meaning people as rarely before.”

“The more we remove the need for individual members of Congress to raise private election funds, the more our representatives can focus on the things they were elected to do, and the more time they will have to cross party lines and erase the divisions that pollute our national dialogue.”

“Every sector of society looks at digital analytics in a productive way. Limiting my ability to use them is just unacceptable. And by the way, Congress conducts polls using traditional methods. No one is using social media analytics as a substitute for that.”

“Congress is full of good, decent, smart people who have devoted their lives to public service.”

“I didn't leave the Congress; I was expelled.”

“If the past is an indication, when women are given a job to do in Congress, they get it done.”

“Obstruction of Congress in our work is a crime.”

“You come into Congress, and in the orientation, pretty quickly, you're separated out by party. Which makes no sense, if you want to get a body that works as a body, that learns to be able to work as a body.”

“The BJP is in power because of the wrong and anti-people policies of the Congress.”

“I could work with anybody. This is why we need more veterans in Congress.”

“Instead of marginalizing women, Congress must get to work on policies that can foster job creation and fuel economic growth.”