In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.
I continued to serve in Congress until 2001.
Henry M. Jackson, congressman and senator from 1941 until his death in 1983, achieved far greater renown than most legislators, ran for president in 1972 and 1976, and was for much of the 1970s and 1980s one of the most powerful men in America.
My son Emilio is running for Congress to continue the fight for social justice.
The real Representative McDermott said Jason McDermott is no relation. The Congressman does have a son, but his name is James and he does not live in the Midwest.
In addition, there is one title I cherish a great deal more than Congressman and that is the title of... Dad.
Rarely does a congressman stand up and defend a liquor company. Rarely does a congressman stand up and defend a bar.
A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not be interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs.
I don’t know how to do what you have to do to get something out of a congressman.
You think your congressman is working all day to get you a job? He may want to. He or she is probably not a bad person. They probably want to do the right thing. But they can't.
I just want to be a really good congressman. You should look at what you are today and be the very best you can.
No high qualities of statesmanship are expected from a Congressman.
Ted Cruz, of course, was furious that the big storm back east shut down the government. He said, 'That my job!' But you know, there is a big difference between Ted Cruz and snow. Both are white and everyone’s sick of them – but eventually snow goes away.
You know that I am living proof that the American Dream is real. Growing up, our congressman cut through government bureaucratic red tape to help my mom buy our first house. That's the kind of congressman I'll be.
Don’t worry Congressman. President Clinton can’t stand you either.
When Congressman [Mike] Pence was in Congress, he was the chief cheerleader for the privatization of Social Security. Even after President [George W.] Bush stopped pushing for it, Congressman Pence kept pushing for it.
I was introduced to Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson. The young Congressman was very friendly.
A congressman serves a two year term. As soon as he gets elected, he has to start attending fund raisers.
One congressman asked 'I just want to know if you've accepted Jesus Christ as your personal savior. The minister looked stunned, and he said 'no.' The whole table almost fell on the floor. The congressman was quite serious. That was his litmus test.
The little boy who goes to the store and forgets what his mother sent him for, will probably grow up to be a congressman.
...I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
I was also a congressman. I had decided to run for office and had become a congressman with Queen Latifah.
Well, it looks like John Boehner will be the new Speaker of the House. He is the son of a bartender, one of 12 children. He grew up in a two room home with just one bathroom, worked his way through school, became the first person in his family to graduate from college. And, sadly, fell in with the wrong crowd and wound up in Congress.
A congressman sent a tweet that compared president Obama to Adolf Hitler. He has now apologized. It's not helping that he apologized to Hitler.
When I was introduced to Johnson he was a freshman Congressman.
