Bruce Babbitt Quotes

Arguments are made in Washington with very few facts behind them.

It’s tough for Washington to pass complicated legislation.

Throughout the 40 years I've been in Washington, I've always worked hard, particularly with regards to the budget issues.

I have the experience and ability to step in on day one in Washington and start working on the challenging problems facing our country.

I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.

If it comes out of Congress, I think it has traction in America.

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.

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.

It's important to remember that whatever the presidential candidates of either party say, they will have to interact with the United States Congress, particularly the Senate, when it comes to crafting policy.

President Obama and the congressional Democrats have certainly been responsive.

I guess the optimistic thing is that those people in Congress who are climate deniers, I think their time has run out.

I cut the taxes on everybody. I didn't cut them. The Congress cut them. I asked them to cut them.

It's very interesting how Washington works. It's not about speeches. It's about relationships.

We absolutely have to change the status quo in Washington.

I don't think most of Congress understands how economics works.

I do not believe that the best ideas come from Washington.

It's incumbent upon all members of Congress to support legislation that keeps us safe at home and abroad.

Landowners, farmers and gamekeepers, though they comprise a small minority of the rural population, claim to speak for everyone, and dismiss those who challenge them as interfering urbanites.

I will fight hard for my constituents in Congress as I have done in the state Senate.

In Congress, I have worked with my colleagues to pass the 21st Century Cures Act.

Mr. Trump has said that he wants a vice president who knows Washington, is able to deal with the Congress, and could be viewed as somebody who could be president.

Congress makes immigration law. It's that simple. That is how our system works.

Congress is a place that lacks any debate of ideas.

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.