Sharice Davids Quotes

I think any advocate who is effective has fully acquainted himself or herself with the legislator they are going to meet. Know what committees they are on, what issues they are interested in, all in an effort to build a bridge for communicating with them.

Well, the senators I've enjoyed working with the most would be Ted Kennedy and Kent Conrad, because they were both either chairman or ranking member of the committee I was chairman or ranking member of. And in both instances they were just great people to work with.

Members of Congress are less beasts of accumulating burden than computational machines designed to win re-election. Their sense of their own political interests is acute.

One of the first members of Congress I met when I was first elected in 2008 was Barney Frank.

The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take.

Working with people, the musical part is one thing but the personal part is totally different and just as critical. If the friendship is there and it's a lasting friendship, then it will take care of itself.

I love keeping a connection with everyone I've worked with.

I went into show business because I love to work with people, and what I enjoy most about acting is rehearsing and getting to know people and their talents, forming relationships. Working in this business, barriers drop and you get into people real quickly.

All lasting business is built on friendship.

I think everyone knows how much of a joint effort being in politics is. It requires all kinds of sacrifices and all kinds of support.

I've never been socially outgoing, but I suspect I've gotten more and more ambivalent about making new friends. I'm irritated by how-do-you-do chit-chat, but that's how new relationships usually begin.

I spent five years working very hard to develop a relationship with the veterans' service organizations. We have together worked some major projects.

It's really about making opportunities for yourself and connecting with people on a more-than-normal level. That opens doors. You never know if the caterer's brother is someone. You don't know who someone is having dinner with that night. So being a nice person and touching people creates opportunity.

I don't know what the strategy will be in Washington. The reality is, is, I have got to go down there, as my mentor, as people like Bill Bradley have told me to do, get to know your colleagues on both sides of the aisle, recognize that they, too, beat with the same heart and the same type of blood.

You can make more friends in a month by being interested in them than in ten years by trying to get them interested in you.

When you elected me to serve as your Whip, I committed to create an inclusive and open Whip operation - one that didn't just register your objections and move on, but instead actively sought you out and worked to build coalitions that enabled us to advance our agenda on some of the most controversial issues we have faced.

We worked very well with Mark Sanford. We stood shoulder to shoulder fighting for the principles that we believe in. But another person that stood there as well was a legislator, State Senator Larry Grooms.

Both players and coaches take time to understand each other. Frequent changes bring that rapport to square one.

It is an honor to join my former colleague in Congress, Jim McCrery, and the very talented team at Capitol Counsel.

In any field, people want to work with those who they know and trust. It's the same in the Hindi film industry.

Encourage people to mingle, meet, and communicate.

When you say yes to the invite of someone new, you're also saying yes to their network. And their network contains people you may be attracted to.

One of the positives of the Illinois delegation is the congressmen and women work together on issues of local concern in a lot of different ways.

I have worked with Chuck Grassley off and on through the years, and always had what I considered and what I think he'd consider a cordial working relationship.

I've always thought that I've had a nice gift for putting the right people together.