Congressional Resistance Quotes

If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?

To get Congress to do anything.

A president just can't make much showing against congress. They lay awake nights, thinking up things to be against the president on.

I think raising wages, investing in infrastructure, making sure that people have access to good educations that equip them for the jobs of the future. Those are all agenda items that would help alleviate some of those economic pressures and dislocations that people are experiencing. The problem was I couldn't convince the Republican Congress to pass a lot of them.

Obama tried to make deals with Republicans, and I don't think he realized he'd have such an insanely opposing Congress.

President Barack Obama couldn't bring everything into existence through Congress. Because from the day that he was elected president of the United States, the United States Congress, many of the Republicans met, and they declared that they would never allow his legislative program to succeed. And for eight years they fought him.

Roosevelt's strength was that he understood he would never get anything through the Republican old guard, his party, unless the public pressured Congress.

I think that the responsibility that the Democrats had may rest more in resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress, or by me when I was President, to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

There are certainly more Republicans who like President Trump than like 'Republicans in Congress,' and certainly many Republicans who already feel like their own Congress is a brake pedal of its own.

A President finds that his job has shrunk to cajoling a recalcitrant Congress, exhorting and indifferent public, and reconciling warring factions in an administration—where he takes the blame for actions over which he has no control and that he probably would have opposed had he been given any advance notice of them.

It's one thing to fight individual members of Congress on individual issues, but if you fight the institution, it will collectively fight back.