Tom Colicchio Quotes

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

Our party's agenda is not only to form a government, but also to facilitate a political process.

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

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

The level of analysis that is done when you see laws created, whether it's the city or state or federal level - it's much more horse-trading than analysis.

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

I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds.

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

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.

There is no major political issue in the country that does not end up as a legal issue.

I hold them [politicians] in contempt for the reason that they enact laws, further social engineering, do anything to get elected, couldn't care less about the wishes of the people and make horrible mistakes along the way when they do get in office. If there is anyone the most ignorant about issues it is a politician. A plague on all their houses!

Exploitation and government are two inseparable expressions of what is called politics.

Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made.

Nearly all legislation is the result of compromise.

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

I entered Parliament with what I thought to be the lowest possible opinion of the average member. I came out with one still lower.

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

If it comes out of Congress, I think it has traction in America.

Sausage making and policy-making shouldn't be seen close-up.

Politics is like sausage being made. It is unsavory, and it always has been that way, but we usually end up where we need to be.

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.

People think that politics just somehow magically organizes itself. It doesn't work that way. You need to assemble these huge coalitions of 535 politicians on Capitol Hill, and tens of thousands of interest groups, and tens of millions of voters, and assemble all those in government to get stuff done.

CONGRESS, n. A body of men who meet to repeal laws.

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