Legislative Body Quotes

Congress: America's only true criminal class.

The caucus is not open to former Senators.

Most ex-Presidents would be glad to become ex-officio members of the Senate without a vote.

I'm very proud to be a member of the Congress. And I'm proud to serve with people like Mike Doyle.

I'm blessed to represent Florida in the United States Senate.

The House [of Representatives] has become not so much a legislative assembly as a huge panel from which committees are selected.

You must build your House of Parliament upon the river: so…that the populace cannot exact their demands by sitting down round you.

A law is simply a reflection of the momentary perception of self-interest by a majority of a legislative body.

The respect of the American people for the Congress has been increased. They can see the Congress as a vigilant Congress.

In the U.S. Senate a quorum consists of the chairman of the Committee on Finance and a messenger from the White House.

The U.S. Senate - an old scow which doesn't move very fast, but never sinks.

Where I know my strengths lie, for me, is establishing systems and protocols, finding solutions, and trying to push for results. The Senate is a great institution, but for me, it's not the role that best suits those needs.

No man ever exercised less influence in the Senate or the House of Representatives than he, but no man ever exercised more power as a political leader.

The House of Representatives is the center of power of the most powerful nation in the world.

We tend to think of the House as a less historically significant legislative body than the Senate. There are more representatives than there are senators, they're up for re-election every two years, and many come and go without having much of an impact.

We're half the people; we should be half the Congress.

Parliament is a grand inquest which has the right to inquire into anything and everything.

Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public.

Societies cannot move forward without law, and our constitution is the cornerstone of the law and our National Assembly is its umbrella and fortress.

The Senate of the United States has been both extravagantly praised and unreasonably disparaged, according to the predisposition and temper of its various critics…. The truth is, in this case as in so many others, something quite commonplace and practical. The Senate is just what the mode of its election and the conditions of public life in this country make it.

This is a Senate of equals, of men of individual honor and personal character, and of absolute independence. We know no masters, we acknowledge no dictators. This is a hall for mutual consultation and discussion; not an arena for the exhibition of champions.

I really was going to run for Congress.

I enjoyed Parliament being a proper elected MP.

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.

The House is composed of very good men, not shining, but honest and reasonably well-informed, and in time will be found to improve, and not much inferior in eloquence, science, and dignity, to the British Commons. They are patriotic enough, and I believe there are more stupid (as well as more shining) people in the latter, in proportion.