Sean Patrick Maloney Quotes

Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores.

I wish I could set deadlines for the Congress, but that's just not the way the Constitution is written.

Congress was the first branch of the government. It was designed as a rough and tumble place.

The Congress is not a court of law but it is a court of public opinion.

We have 535 Secretaries of State.

I have a Congress on my hands.

If the presidency is the head of the American body politic, Congress is its gastrointestinal tract. Its vast and convoluted inner workings may be mysterious and unpleasant, but in the end they excrete a great deal of material whose successful passage is crucial to our nation's survival.

In Congress, I represent South Central Kansas, home to McConnell Air Force Base.

I've always been intrigued by the Senate, and admired many of the people who have served there.

The Senate is where the issues are, and most people there are career politicians.

Serving in Congress is like having a second shot at high school.

Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.

It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.

I am the first podiatrist to serve in the U.S. Congress.

…the Senate, a small body of egos…

You run Washington DC though the House. The Senate gets in the way. The President gets in the way.

An aesthetically informed Congress might be able to make better laws.

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

Being Speaker [of the House] is hard work.

When I embarked in the government, it was with a determination to intermeddle not at all with the legislature.

Without the Congress I am just a six-foot-four Texan.

The legislature makes, the executive executes, and the judiciary construes the law; but the maker of the law may commit something to the discretion of the other departments, and the precise boundary of this power is a subject of delicate and difficult inquiry.

Our American concept of government rests on the idea of a dominant Congress.

The Congress is the place where ordinary mortals go about the business of compromise—of compromise that gets us through the day.

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