Lois Frankel Quotes

I was a very, very good congressman.

Starting in 2005, my first session in the legislature, my colleagues elected me to be Democratic whip.

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

In the heart of every legislator lurks a judicial candidate waiting his or her turn for election.

[Warren] Harding didn't like being a Senator; he liked being in the Senate.

You can't go to Washington as a congressman and a senator and expect to make a difference all at once. You have to earn your way.

I've made no secret that although I loved being a legislator, I particularly loved being a chief executive.

I have been blessed, working both at the local level on a community school board, the state assembly, four years in the state senate, and now almost 12 years in the House of Representatives.

To go from chairman of the House Appropriations Committee in the Kansas Legislature to one of 50 on the Appropriations Committee and one of 435 in the whole House, it is more difficult to directly impact policy here.

I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years.

I've been in Parliament since 1983, and I've been involved in many issues over the time.

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.

I was on leave from local and regional politics, as long as I was a Minister.

I'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate.

I've loved being in legislative office on a state level, and I think on a federal level there are so many more opportunities. I'm so excited to accomplish more.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

When I was introduced to Johnson he was a freshman Congressman.

It is true that I entered parliament at the age of 23, and have now been representing the people of my constituency for over twenty years.

I was elected six times to represent southern Arizona, in the State Legislature and then in Congress.

It is a great privilege for any man to become a member of the Senate.

Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work.

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

I want to thank the people of Texas for asking me to represent them in Washington.

I will not ever run for political office. I can assure you.