Political Staff Quotes

You cannot rely on House or Senate staff to pass a piece of legislation for you, but if you have antagonized staff, they can block you.

Congressional staff members do have a considerable amount of responsibility. But in my experience, the loyalty of the vast majority of staffers to their bosses leads them to be honest brokers of information for the members they work for.

Over time, the best politics are policies that actually work …. Others in the White House are looking for short term political victories. The political hacks are just doing their jobs.

Donald Trump’s test of loyalty of his staff is if they will go out and defend his lies.

It is safe to say that the U.S. Congress is now run by paid staffers, not by people elected to do the job.

There's a whole pipeline for where people recruit current Hill staff from, and it's people who go through a kind of ideological training that's incorrect, I'd say, and so there's a lot of work to do, and Justice Democrats is trying to figure out where it fits.

[When redistricting] there is no such thing as non-partisan…. Beware of non-partisan, or bi-partisan staff bearing gifts. They probably are not your friends.

When you work in the White House you talk to the White House staff all day, so you're talking to the guy who handles the congressional liaison and the guy who's handling domestic politics and the guy who's handling the American economy and so forth.

The Republicans have a “me too” candidate running on a “yes but” platform, advised by a “has been” staff.

A politician needs a wife and other people too. A man of state needs helpers—little elves and sprites to do his bidding.

Members [of Congress] never make mistakes. Only the [congressional] staff make mistakes.

I've seen senators, whose character and intelligence I know reasonably well, vote a certain way just because staff tells them to.