Lucy McBath Quotes

Gingrich, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, and Clinton passed legislation because they understood and appreciated the difficult political process. They fought for their principles yet recognized the need for compromise to get anything done.

I'd like to think I'm a serious legislator and trying to get things done.

I think Newt Gingrich has a proven track record of changing Washington and getting results.

I don't know if anybody can second-guess what they will do on Capitol Hill.

One of the things I give Nancy Pelosi a lot of credit for is that she's able to get things passed and hold her members together because she shows us that she's doing everything possible to get our views into these bills.

Legislative proposals are not merely vehicles for expressing policy, they are devices for getting policy decided.

What I am anxious to do is to secure my legislation.... What I want to do is to get through that, and if I can point to a record of usefulness of that kind, I am entirely willing to quit office.

The legislative agenda reflects the complication of society.

Presidents are evaluated not by what they did by the stroke of their own pen; it's what they persuade Congress to do.

I've taken legislation that people have been trying to pass for 10 or 15 years, and I got it passed.

I'm excited to work with my colleagues to advance President Trump's policies and advance the needs of our state and the nation.

The Obama administration was not in a position where they were seeking legislation. I don't know yet how President Trump intends to approach this. I know he spoke about it during the campaign. I know he cares about it, but it's premature for me to say.

I believe in health care reform. I don't believe in the way this bill was passed.

President Trump is going to keep the promises he made to the American people through decisive executive action and through legislation.

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.

Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

The people of New Jersey sent me to Congress because they are tired of partisan gridlock. They want to see our Congress get to work on legislation that will make people's lives better.

Congress has been productive when focusing on bites of policy that don't inflame the divisions within the party and quietly do the work of governing.

I think Paul Ryan would make a great speaker. And people like him are the kinds of people that we need.

If I am elected, God willing, to the United States Senate, I will be leading the charge for President Trump.

There is nothing that I didn't get to do while I was serving in Congress - except be in the majority.

Hillary Clinton's time in the Senate indicates she is happier being a policy workhorse than a show horse.

On the House side, when Donald Trump came, he received multiple standing ovations.

I really focus on making sure that we pass good policy. I don't mind throwing my elbows around to get it done.

While Democrats spent the year of 2019 obstructing, President Trump spent the year achieving.