Mark Udall Quotes

The crowd that is running Washington today has had 12 years and it failed

Congress never loses its capacity to disappoint you.

This Congress is simply not doing its job under Republican leadership.

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

Congress doesn’t do comprehensive well.

Congress is more broken than ever. Congressman Will Hurd has quickly become part of the problem.

Congress seems to be very good at doing nothing.

Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.

Government is dysfunctional.

In the year of our Lord 2010, the voters of the United States elected the worst Congress in the history of the Republic. There have been Congresses more dilatory. There have been Congresses more irresponsible, though not many of them.

The Senate as an institution is broken. We're not doing the work of the American people and the rules are being abused. The only way to get us back to the traditions where the Senate is doing the work of the American people is to change the rules.

It has now become a very common sentiment, that there is some deep and radical wrong somewhere, and that legislators have proved themselves incapable of discovering, or, of remedying it.

In the United States Senate we have to break the culture of procrastination.

The attitude of the Senate toward public affairs makes all serious negotiations impossible.

Congress actively undermines the best of legislative practice.

Congress is almost totally dysfunctional right now. All we've done this year and my first year in the Senate ... is barely keep the doors open.

Many good people serve in Congress. They are patriotic, hard-working, and devoted to the public good as they see it, but the institutional and cultural impediments to change frustrate the intentions of these well-meaning people as rarely before.

We Americans are as great as we have ever been. But our government is broken.

I've spent my life in the Republican party, it gives me no pleasure to say this. This party has demonstrated a complete incapacity to govern. Period.

Scandals, corruption, partisan infighting - no wonder people have lost faith in Congress. I say enough is enough.

We have all seen Washington politicians fail us.

It's not empirically wrong to say that Washington isn't working for the American people and Washington does too many things for powerful special interests and it's broken.

It is folly to believe that Congress and the president, on their own, will make the necessary and difficult decisions to address the impending financial debacle. After all, they and their predecessors engineered the approaching tsunami. As the situation becomes direr, the federal government's actions will grow more oppressive.

We're all tired of a Washington that has these partisan camps where nothing gets done.

I think it's a time to be sad about what's been done to the United States Senate, the greatest deliberative body in the world.