Sarah Vowell Quotes

One of things I have always been open to is making policy in the Senate Commerce Committee.

I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds.

As I've learned in my time in the state legislature, important legislation is always a work in progress.

I know how to make sausage, and now that I've seen how laws are made, I'll stick with sausage.

There is no major political issue in the country that does not end up as a legal issue.

... legislating to regulate cultural change is like lassoing a locomotive with a cobweb.

Lobbying is declared to be a crime.

Do you want to make a statement or do you want to make a law?

Regulations are a form of legislation and should be decided by a political process, not more or better benefit-cost analyses.

I think everybody in Washington could use a curfew, to be honest.

What one has created by regulation, one could address by regulation.

If we can't get where we need to go to protect people through our regulatory channels, through our legislative process, then unfortunately what we have left is our legal process.

One of the notable aspects of the democratic process is that one need not know anything about a subject in order to pass laws about it.

Stop sending out press releases and start passing some bills...

If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them... Mr. and Mrs. America, turn 'em all in, I would have done it. I could not do that. The votes weren't here..

If it comes out of Congress, I think it has traction in America.

If you can't legislate, you can't deal with problems.

Washington's a mess, but that's not stopping me from getting bills to help Montana signed into law by President Trump.

I want to go back to Congress and get to work on making a real difference for the families and workers of South Florida.

I'd always been the kind of lawyer that was attracted back to policy.

I'm not a lobbyist.

It's tough sometimes for groups of people and animals to let go of that fear that can so easily bubble back up to the surface.

Rational anxiety is when you're aware of the source of your anxiety. Like, if I have to host an award show or talk to millions of people on the radio, I'm going to feel anxious, and I know why. Irrational anxiety is when I'm leaving CVS, and there's a car behind me, and I'm wondering if he's following me home.

We rely on the rule of law. I think we've lost touch with that concept in Washington.

My journey started in the courthouse and went to the statehouse.