Darlene Senger Quotes

I've always thought Anne-Marie Slaughter would make a fantastic United States Senator or something. She's a real intellectual, but she's got enormous communicative skills and she's got government experience. The thing that drives me slightly crazy is the way we think about intellectuals as wooly, hopeless, arrogant, self-deceived, incapable.

I really don't have tremendous political ambition. I have policy ambition.

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

If you are really interested in making government work, you should have the experience of working in government.

The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.

A disposition to preserve and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

I’m going to take Tennessee ideas to Washington and make them work for the country.

We've got to get back to a country that can get things done. And my whole career has been marching and charging at and running toward some of the most difficult problems in America and finding ways to create new coalitions to get things done.

You know, one of the things my husband says when people say 'Well, what did you bring to Washington,' he said, 'Well, I brought arithmetic.'

Hillary Clinton's time in the Senate indicates she is happier being a policy workhorse than a show horse.

Enough of these little kitty cats we keep sending to Washington. David Dewhurst will compromise every day in the U.S. Senate... It's what he's done every day in state government.

I don't want to come to Washington to be just another vote. I want to lead on issues that are important.

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

I am a partisan and artisan of Europe. But I draw the lessons of my experience in government.

I just know that I'm innovative. I'm a quick thinker... In Washington, I just want to be a senator who finds a way to drive change and not figure out a way to conform.

Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.

Here's the thing Washington always misses. Washington always wants a deal. America wants a solution. Americans sent us here to solve problems.

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.

I think Newt Gingrich has a proven track record of changing Washington and getting results.

The best, most interesting years of my life were spent in government and politics.

If you are a U. S. senator, you can give an ideological response to a serious problem and probably never be held accountable for it. Whereas the [state] governors are dealing with the real world—they have to run things, to make them work.

The President must stay in office to steer these changes through.

In government, you're not a writer, you're an administrator.

I really enjoyed my time in state government. I thought we made a difference. I liked being a part of that effort. I had a different experience in Washington.

I'm a weekday warrior who takes our Georgia values to Washington, and on the weekends, I'm back home.