Barack Obama Quotes

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

Congress should get the job done.

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

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

I wish I could set deadlines for the Congress, but that's just not the way the Constitution is written.

I do not believe that I have ever before written to an individual legislator in favor of an individual bill, but ….

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

[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.

… take the Constitution out of cold storage!

Congress doesn’t act unless there is an emergency.

I hate to tell you, but it's not always pretty up there on Capitol Hill

If we don't send people to Washington who, first of all, have done something more than talk for a living - which is what many politicians have done - nothing gets done.

Congress needs to step up. Congress needs to do their job, and Congress needs to do their job now.

Those of us who are pro-life should demand more from Congress.

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

You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones.

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.

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.

Look, I think by the time my case was over and other ones, everybody on both sides of the aisle in Congress said we can't run a government by this kind of process and they repealed the law and that's good.

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 know how bad Albany is. I know it better than most. I understand why people are angry. I'm angry. The question is going to be, how do you change Albany, what is the plan for change, and then how do you actually get it done?

I have kept a steady focus on restoring public faith in our state government since taking office July 1. Now it is time to make even bigger and bolder gains through legislative action.

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

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.

The people in Congress have no interest in preserving the Constitution because they are interested in power.