Pete Gallego Quotes

My viewpoint is the Senate is dysfunctional.

I do not sympathize with the sentiment that Congress in session is dangerous to our general business interests.

Congress is unable to do the work of the American people because too many politicians believe that compromise means capitulation.

Overall, Congress is dysfunctional, partisan, and polarized, and it isn’t getting anything done. We need commissions to break out of divisive partisanship.

Congress has lost its capacity to manage itself.

Washington is not the problem; the Congress is the problem.

Conventional wisdom holds that the public disproportionately blames Republicans for government shutdowns. The disproportionate election of Republicans to the U.S. Senate following the Republican-led shutdown of 2013 should have put that canard to rest.

There's a lot of good, bipartisan legislation that passes in committee and then gets bottled up. As a businessman, it surprised me.

The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today.

Our Congress should stay in session all summer - camp out in D.C., and turn off the AC. Put on their stuffiest powdered wigs and sweat it out, until they give in and put their John Hancocks (and their Nancy Pelosis and their John Boehners) on at least one meaningful law that no one wants to repeal.

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.

While I have worked hard to bring folks to the middle to craft common-sense solutions to the many problems that confront our nation, Washington is mired in gridlock, gamesmanship and constant partisan bickering.

For better or worse, when Sen. Inhofe speaks, the Republican Party follows. And when the Republican Party follows, it is impossible to get real work done in the Congress.

One difficulty in making the Senate work the way it was intended is that America's electorate is increasingly divided into red and blue states, with lawmakers representing just one color or the other.

Today, I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily good politics, and the result is that it's much more partisan and much more divided.

You can see how dysfunctional this Congress is.

In the year of our Lord 2010, the voters of the United States elected the worst Congress in the history of the Republic. There have been Congresses more dilatory. There have been Congresses more irresponsible, though not many of them.

Obama rammed through Obamacare legislation without a single Republican vote.

Rarely in American history has any particular Congress been held in high esteem …

Congress has been reformed so much that it can't get anything done.

Why is it so hard for the Congress to do something for the public?

Congress doesn’t do comprehensive well.

We need less bipartisanship in Congress.

You used to get legislation done by getting the moderates to agree. But we have no moderates now so it doesn’t get done

Members of Congress don’t speak to their colleagues any more. They talk to the national audience.