Mitch Landrieu Quotes

Congress does investigations better than they do anything else.

I think it is absolutely reprehensible to believe that any member of this House, Democrat or Republican, would want to do anything that would jeopardize the ability to find out exactly what happened leading up to hurricane Katrina and exactly what happened in the aftermath.

Congress should get the job done.

If you want to investigate, we will be willing to assist.

As we enter into the 110th Congress, it is imperative that we address ethics reforms needed to make this institution run correctly.

We've got to be responsible, somebody's got to be responsible for it.

I have found a reality in life, and that reality is the United States Congress.

It is necessary to investigate before legislating. But the line between investigation and persecution is a fine one.

Theirs is a Spartan morality. Not the corruption but the discovery that constitutes the crime. Instead of applauding the investigators, they make war on the investigation. Instead of condemning the exposed and praising the exposure, they praised the exposed and condemned the exposure

Quite as important as legislation is vigilant oversight of administration; and even more important than legislation is the instruction and guidance in political affairs which the people might receive from a body which kept all national concerns suffused in a broad daylight of discussion .... The informing functions of Congress should be preferred even to its legislative function. The argument is not only that a discussed and interrogated administration is the only pure and efficient administration, but, more than that, that the only really self-governing people is that people which discusses and interrogates its administration.

Congress’ duty to the voters requires it to monitor how military appropriations are spent and to investigate the army’s failures if it was not willing to investigate itself. What are we to do? Sit idle during all the period that the [Civil] war is in progress?

Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.

The important thing is the solution to the problem, not who gets the credit.

Fuck the Congress. Send the stuff now!

Congress did not themselves wish to be investigated..

Public Congressional Investigation hearings are freak shows.

As chair of the CBC, I will do all I can to be supportive of Congressman Conyers.

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

Congress has lost its way if we don't hold this President accountable for his actions.

My dad died when I was young. He was a good and decent man. There are a few things he would say that have just always stuck with me. He'd say, "Son, you're either part of the problem or part of the solution." Well, regrettably, President Obama has become part of the problem, and Mitt Romney is the solution.

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

Congress needs to get over their political bias with each other and work toward saving children's lives.

I believe that transparency is the solution to our problem on corruption.

On the question of taking credit for what goes right and blame for what goes wrong - having led the Conservative party for four years, I have never heard of this notion before.

One, if one is sensible, blames government, not the servers of government, not those entangled in their governments.