Legislative Criticism Quotes

All anyone needs to enjoy the state legislature is a strong stomach and a complete insensitivity to the needs of the people. As long as you don't think about what that peculiar body should be doing and what it actually is doing to the quality of life in Texas, then it's all marvelous fun.

You are no Parliament. You are no Parliament! .... It is not fit that you sit here any longer! You should now give place to better men.

I'm always impressed by your disdain for Congress. That's one of the reasons you have such good relations with us.

One of the consolations of having orthodox, fundamental religion is that it provides a hot Hell for the Texas Legislature.

I am not liked as a president by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment–the sober second thought–of the people

Overreaction is one of the things that congress specializes in. I can't think of anything congress does better than overreact.

Anybody who thinks that getting a communication from a voter in your district is spam - that guy is pork. Roast pork unless he changes his point of view.

Lawmakers who support CISA will tell you the bill includes some privacy protections. They're right. But these 'protections' are superficial and include broad loopholes that are so far-reaching as to render the protections meaningless.

There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.

I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons.

As a general rule, I do not think it appropriate for judges to heap either praise or censure upon a legislative measure that comes before them, lest it be thought that their validation, invalidation, or interpretation of it is driven by their desire to expand or constrict what they personally approve or disapprove as a matter of policy.

We focused attention on what some believe are the flaws in the process leading to Senate consideration of the bill and the flaws of the bill itself.

79 senators, including that great conservative Elizabeth Warren, said they didn't like the medical device tax, so we will go at that law - which in my view is the single worst piece of legislation passed in the last half century - in every way that we can.

The sponsors of this bill obviously have an unresolved Oedipal complex.

Researchers found a frog in new guinea that is so tiny, they believe it's the smallest vertebrate on the planet. It has the tiniest backbone of any living creature, except members of Congress.

I don't know any member of Congress who ever said, 'I'm satisfied with the communication that we have from the White House.'

We need to be calling out the flaws and misguided decisions of the Democrats in Congress and the Obama administration.

The Alien bill proposed in the Senate is a monster that must forever disgrace its parents.