Congressional Staff Quotes & Sayings

Explain to me what the point of living is if you aren't willing to fight for the truths in your heart, to risk getting hurt. — Estelle Laure

When there's nothing but humility, there's nothing but spiritual oneness. — Frederick Lenz

It matters not whether these weapons of ours are humane: if they gain us our freedom, they are justified before our conscience and before our God. — Adolf Hitler

I think I've been able to be in some really good projects with some really good people. — Peter Jacobson

Congressional staff members do have a considerable amount of responsibility. But in my experience, the loyalty of the vast majority of staffers to their bosses leads them to be honest brokers of information for the members they work for. — John Harwood

If you chose to serve in Congress or on a congressional staff, you should be barred for life from working for any company, organization, or association which lobbies the federal government. — Jack Abramoff

When you work in the White House you talk to the White House staff all day, so you're talking to the guy who handles the congressional liaison and the guy who's handling domestic politics and the guy who's handling the American economy and so forth. — Elliott Abrams

This is a great country, in no small part because it is the best country ever devised in which to be a public crank. Never has a nation so dedicated itself to the proposition that not only should people hold nutty ideas, but they should cultivate them, treasure them, shine them up, and put them right up there on the mantelpiece. This is still the best country ever in which to peddle complete public lunacy. In fact, it's the only country to enshrine that right in its founding documents. — Charles P. Pierce

You must always learn to see yourself as a great advancing soul. — Wallace D. Wattles

There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is. — Queen Latifah

Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized. — Alfred North Whitehead

I think it would be impossible not to be an Internet kid, coming from New Zealand, because culturally it's a little barren. — Lorde

The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured. — Biz Stone

Gazing at the typewriter in moments of desperation I console myself with three thoughts. Alcohol at six, dinner at eight, and to be immortal you've got to be dead. — Gyles Brandreth

Anything my staff does in my office is pursuant to congressional rules. — Sheila Jackson Lee

Be yourself' is good advice, unless you notice that people are always excusing themselves and moving away from you. In that case, try being someone else! — Susan RoAne

There is more to this hijab than the whole modesty thing. These girls are strangers to me but I know that we all felt an amazing connection, a sense that this cloth binds us in some kind of universal sisterhood. — Randa Abdel-Fattah

When I was elected, I was the youngest member of the Tennessee congressional delegation; now, I'm one of the oldest. In fact, I have members of my staff who weren't even born when I took office. That tells me it's time for a new chapter. — Bart Gordon

You are a dance of a divine spirit; you just have to realize it. — Debasish Mridha

The American people will be appalled to learn the health care bill exempts (congressional) leadership and committee staff. — Tom Coburn

In their lapels the insignia of lodges and service clubs, places where they can go and, by a weight of numbers of little worried men, reassure themselves that business is noble and not the curious ritualized thievery they know it is; that business men are intelligent in spite of the records of their stupidity; that they are kind and charitable in spite of the principles of sound business; that their lives are rich instead of the thin tiresome routines they know; and that a time is coming when they will not be afraid any more. — John Steinbeck