Richard Parks Bland Quotes

I've seen Congress do some remarkable things within a short period of time.

What Congress does is respond to pressures that are upon it.

Members of Congress often have to have testimony to hang their hat on if they wish to do something for you or do something for the country.

It is not very often given to a politician to turn out to be right.

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.

We’ve been through the House. We’ve been through the Senate. We’ve been through the rantings and ravings. The time is now.

If I could solve these problems with passing laws in the Congress, I would do so.

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.

Congress should get the job done.

I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill.

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.

I find it very difficult to see a scenario where financial regulation doesn't pass the Senate.

All of us want to see the details of any legislative plan if there's going to be a legislative response, but Congress, I believe, is in the mood to do whatever it takes to win this war against terrorism.

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.

Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.

Amendments occupy a great deal of most legislators' time, particularly those lawmakers in the minority. Members of Congress do author major bills, but more commonly they make minor adjustments to the bigger bill.

If Republicans want to bring these things up for a vote, I'm letting them know where I stand.

There are times in Annapolis when a governor's support can move an issue over the goal line.

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

Truman will be the winner.

The Secretary of State has always stood as much alone as the historian. Required to look far ahead and around him, he measures forces unknown to party managers, and has found Congress more or less hostile since Congress first sat.

Getting members of Congress to do things they don’t want to do is a crucial part of being President.

[Congressional] investigations only make it look like legislators have a solution.

It is the business of the President as party leader to do the best he can to see that the declared party platform purposes are translated into legislative and administrative action.

Republican pundits always believe Republicans are going to win; Democratic pundits always believe Democrats are going to win.