Montel Williams Quotes

The challenge has been, we make policy in the world of politics.

Speaker Newt Gingrich has appointed a task force, which I'm on, and over the next couple months the task force is going to try to come up with legislation that does what we're all trying to do. I feel pretty good about the members that are on the task force.

Politics doesn't matter, policy does.

Nearly all legislation is the result of compromise.

I hate to tell you, but it's not always pretty up there on Capitol Hill

We're obviously in speculation territory here, because we don't know what the Trump administration is going to do.

If you think of big, legislative accomplishments, most of them kind of get initiated with the president putting something out there and Congress working on it.

There's a rhythm to the legislative session and there are rhythms to legislative sessions. So I think that's very important to take into consideration when you are deciding what to do when.

Uncertainty is normal in the first few days of a new government.

I think there's a lot to learn from Rockefeller on how to pass legislation.

It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris.

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.

It is provided by the Constitution that the President shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the Union and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.

I'm a lawmaker, but I really don't like laws.

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

You never know what'll happen in politics.

I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.

A week is a long time in politics.

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

Government is not an exact science.

Governments propose, and oppositions dispose.

The employment had no reference whatever to anything pending in Congress.

There’s a sausage machine on Capitol Hill. We’ve given the sausage machine the right kind of ingredients. Now it’s up to the sausage machine to turn out the right kind of legislation.

Everything appears to take long in Congress. This is democracy in action.

From time to time we must remind ourselves that the President has a role in the legislative process.