Raja Krishnamoorthi Quotes

You've got to have a theme if you're going to get Congress to do something difficult.

If we’re going to do all the things that the Constitution says that legitimately we can do as a country, … we have to be able to have a Congress where people can talk together like our Founding Fathers did.

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.

I rise today to discuss the National Intelligence Reform bill. I commend my colleagues in both Houses for their hard work in coming to an agreement. As with any conference, each voice is heard, but none can dominate and compromise must be achieved.

I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done.

You can't have your own way in Congress.

The Congress is the place where ordinary mortals go about the business of compromise—of compromise that gets us through the day.

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

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

Congress should get the job done.

Ultimately, Congressional medicine is like veterinary medicine: It must be strong enough to work, and tasty enough to swallow.

In the Senate, where 60 votes are required to do anything important, you have to work with your colleagues on both sides of the aisle.

All I wanted was to be involved in politics and government.

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

I enjoyed my stay in the Congress. Most people do not. And too many people who have been elected really don't understand the nature of government.

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.

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.

I knew quite a lot about politics before I went to Parliament.

Periods of cooperation between political parties shouldn't be taken for granted; they are a stunning human achievement.

From 1965 to 1967, my dad, Jack Gilligan, served in Congress and helped pass landmark laws like the Voting Rights Act.

Politics doesn't matter, policy does.

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.

[Addressing Congress:] The people await action. They did not send us here to bicker ... Let us negotiate soon—and hard. But in the end, let us produce.

Nearly all legislation is the result of compromise.

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