Michael Bloomberg Quotes

Nearly all legislation is the result of compromise.

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

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

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

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

There is no major political issue in the country that does not end up as a legal issue.

All legislation of any consequence is a compromise. You have to recognize that.

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.

Legislation is the art of compromise.

Washington's a mess, but that's not stopping me from getting bills to help Montana signed into law by President Trump.

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.

A newly elected representative quickly discovers that his job in government-aside from making new laws-is to act as a broker, middleman, special pleader and finagler.

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.

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

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.

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.

It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country.

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.

Politicians love regulating. That's part of the whole power structure.

I see a trend here where the President seems to think his job is to count votes and then try to make a deal That's what we in legislatures do. Mr. Obama's job is to travel the country, fight for the values that he cares about.

Politics doesn't matter, policy does.

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.

When you are President you have to get something done, and that often means compromise.

Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made.