Doug Ose Quotes

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.

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

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

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

Every law enacted by the General Assembly shall embrace but one subject.

Give administration a chance to catch up with legislation.

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

If you can't legislate, you can't deal with problems.

Bringing in timely laws that are the need of the hour requires nimbleness to get through the necessary legislative processes.

In my view it is time to pass a good bill, a fair bill, a comprehensive bill ... Too many have been waiting too long for fairness.

Legislative enactments proceed from men carrying their views a long time back; while judicial decisions are made off hand.

They rushed to move it forward, uh, and then a lawsuit was filed and we spent many months litigating, rather than trying to come up with legislation and move forward on that front.

I don't have to be president to do great things for my country, but at the same time, to get legislation and policy passed, you have to be in some kind of office. So I don't know what the future will lead to.

There are times in Annapolis when a governor's support can move an issue over the goal line.

I've got a pen and I've got a phone - and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.

To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.

Writing laws based on an abstract theory, rather than reality, is a dangerous undertaking.

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

Members of Congress often have to have testimony to hang their hat on if they wish to do something for you or do something for the country.

Changing social policy is just dogged hard work.

When you pass a law you don't solve the problem. You state the problem.

Do you want to make a statement or do you want to make a law?

I would like to add some legislative history at the end of my remarks.

When you pass legislation, it is not tied to a particular problem. It can have unintended consequences.

Legislation is a matter of more or less intelligent improvisation aiming at palliating conditions by means of patchwork policies.