Charlie Norwood Quotes

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

Politics doesn't matter, policy does.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Public policy has been a passion of mine. For three decades, I've had some involvement in the political process.

I know how to make sausage, and now that I've seen how laws are made, I'll stick with sausage.

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

Nearly all legislation is the result of compromise.

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

Stop sending out press releases and start passing some bills...

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

I'm always going to have a strong preference for things that can actually pass into legislation. We can talk about big issues and have big goals while also working on pragmatic things.

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

I'm looking forward to going to Congress to pursue my Working Families Agenda and find areas of bipartisan agreement to move forward on important 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.

I do politics in order to do policy.

Congress should get the job done.

Getting one bill passed is close to impossible. Ask any kid who has spent a summer in Washington, or better yet a semester, and can't understand how people tolerate its menu of constant frustration. Imagine mastering it.

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

From my perspective, we as a nation need to make policy a priority and drive the politics as a result of good policy.