Barack Obama Quotes

You can't have your own way in Congress.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

Governments propose, and oppositions dispose.

Consensus is the essence of the legislative process.

A competition of the best ideas - that should be what Congress is about.

Life is challenging enough without politicians to confuse us.

In Parliament we debate on and we decide the laws that are going to govern the country.

I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions.

I am proud to be in the Senate. I have always been proud to be a part of our political system. It is a remarkable privilege to participate in this system of ours.

Voters will decide how they want to be governed.

Nearly all legislation is the result of compromise.

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.

I have a Congress on my hands.

In the United States Senate we have to break the culture of procrastination.

Arguments are made in Washington with very few facts behind them.

There is one thing, too apt to be forgotten, which it much behooves us to remember: In the Colonies, as everywhere else in this world, the vital point is not who decides, but what is decided on!

Our democracy has been going for over 235 years and it has not always been as dysfunctional as it is today.

Government is not a game show, though at times it is amusing and entertaining to watch.

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

I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress.

I'm no expert on American politics.

Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative - decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself.

Elections have consequences.

The political status legislation which emerged in Congress in 1990 and 1991 did not receive the support needed for enactment into law during my tenure as Attorney General.