Kathy Szeliga Quotes

Ultimately, you change the culture in Washington only one way, and it's one election at a time, with the character of the people you send.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

There is also something called the Legislature. There is something called the press. There is something called people. These are all different players on the stage.

I want to thank the people of Texas for asking me to represent them in Washington.

I'm not revolted by Washington.

I think dealing with the U.S. Senate is very different from dealing with the electorate.

Parliament is relentless, it never stops.

In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts, I believe we should follow the process prescribed in our Constitution - consideration of a Constitutional amendment.

The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

In Parliament we debate on and we decide the laws that are going to govern the country.

I am proud to be in the Senate. I have always been proud to be a part of our political system. It is a remarkable privilege to participate in this system of ours.

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution.

The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

I have a lot of hope for the Constituent Assembly.

For a bill to become law, it truly has to be the will of the people, and for a president to stop the will of the people and stop what you're trying to do in your state is not the role of Washington.

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.

Everyone in Congress represents Washington.

The United States is a very difficult country to govern.

The American political system was created by a bunch of geniuses so that it could be run by a bunch of idiots.

Governments propose, and oppositions dispose.

Our democratic institutions are adversarial.