Quotes about Deliberative Body

Neil Gorsuch

I consider the United States Senate the greatest deliberative body in the world, and I respect the important role the Constitution affords it in the confirmation of our judges.

Lamar Alexander

The Senate was designed not to be efficient. If was designed to slow things down, And it does a pretty good job of it.

The Senate had always been more deliberative than the House, but at the time Alexander made this statement, his party—the minority in the Senate—had filibustered most of all the legislation, There were more filibusters than had occurred in the entire pure history of America.

Mitch McConnell

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.

John C. Danforth

The Senate is indeed a deliberative body, and that quality serves the nation well. A slow-moving government helps us maintain a stable government. But slow moving is not the same as immobile.

Margaret Chase Smith

The United States Senate has long enjoyed worldwide respect as the greatest deliberative body in the world. But recently that deliberative character has too often been debased to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination sheltered by the shield of congressional immunity.

This was the first Senatorial response against the excesses of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy who publicly accused thousands of Americans of being communists but could never provide any evidence against any of them. He always made his fabricated accusations on the floor of the Senate or during Senate Hearings so that he could never be sued for libel. He refused every challenge to repeat his charges out of the Senate.

Democratic Party

We demand that the House of Representatives shall again become a deliberative body, controlled by the majority of the people's Representatives and not be the Speaker ...

Two years later with bipartisan support Speaker Joseph Cannon was stripped of his party and the Rules Committee was created.

Edmund Burke

Parliament is a deliberate assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purpose, not local prejudices ought to guide but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole.

CNN

The filibuster is being abused to create gridlock and prevent the Senate from doing the people's business. Instead of being a deliberative body, the Senate has become a deadlocked body.

The United Stats Senate until the hyperpartisanship and the Republican abuse of the filibuster in the early part of the 21st century, was considered by most, the greatest deliberative body in the world. In just a few years it became one of the most feeble.

George T. Conway III

The Framers of the Constitution expected the presidency to be occupied by special individuals, selfless people of the highest character and ability. They intended the Electoral College to be a truly deliberative body, not the largely ceremonial institution it has become today.

John Cornyn

The Senate used to be a place of great debate and accomplishment. Now it is run like a dictatorship shutting out the voices of millions of Americans.

James Madison

The necessity of a senate is not less indicated by the propensity of all single and numerous assemblies, to yield to the impulse of sudden and violent passions, and to be seduced by factious leaders, into intemperate and pernicious resolutions.

Robert J. Kaiser

In the “World’s Greatest Deliberative Body” [the U. S. Senate] there is little deliberation … Floor debates consisted primarily of political posturing.

The Congress at that time was mired down in hyperpartisanship and accomplished very little.

Steve Schmidt

Mitch McConnell has, as much as anyone, done great damage to the United States Senate as an institution that was once known as the world's greatest deliberative body.

Ambrose Bierce

QUORUM, n. A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it. In the U.S. Senate a quorum consists of the chairman of the Committee on Finance and a messenger from the White House.

Ambrose Bierce

PRESIDE, v. To guide the action of a deliberative body to a desirable result. In Journalese, to perform upon a musical instrument; as, "He presided at the piccolo."

Deliberative Body Quotes