Legislative Bodies Quotes

The House Republicans are not the enemy, they’re the opposition. The Senate is the enemy.

The difference between being a member of the House and being a member of the Senate is the difference between chicken salad and chicken shit.

All free governments must consist of two councils, a lesser and a greater.

When a member of the House moves over to the Senate, he raises the IQ of both bodies.

The House is composed of very good men, not shining, but honest and reasonably well-informed, and in time will be found to improve, and not much inferior in eloquence, science, and dignity, to the British Commons. They are patriotic enough, and I believe there are more stupid (as well as more shining) people in the latter, in proportion.

When my party won the elections convincingly on February 18th, 2008, we immediately reached out to other parties to form broad-based coalitions of national unity in the National Assembly and in the four provincial assemblies.

Congress is a collection of committees that come together in a Chamber periodically to approve one another's actions.

As a man of the Congress, let me reaffirm my conviction that the collective wisdom of our two great legislative bodies while not infallible will in the end serve the people faithfully and very, very well.

Our responsibility is to focus on the House. The Senate's the Senate.

Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, "the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.".

There's a learning curve to understanding how the Senate operates.

...institutions like the House of Lords must die, like all other organic beings, when their time comes.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

In terms of winning the election, it's all about turnout and how we connect with the voter as to what it means in their lives to turn out to vote, to win the House, the Senate, statehouses, state governorships and the rest.

The house of Lords must be the only institution in the world which is kept efficient by the persistent absenteeism of most of its members.

There are more women in the Iranian parliament than in the United States senate.

A person who steals a chicken might go to jail … but a person who steals millions is welcome to be a member of the Federation Council or the Duma.

THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution: RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following Articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, all or any of which Articles, when ratified by three fourths of the said Legislatures, to be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution;

Congressional parties are parochial parties.

My big idea is that democracy can only work properly if you have truly representative people at the table.

Members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population.

All legislative bodies which control pecuniary interests are as sure to have a lobby as an army to have camp followers. Where the body is, there will the vultures be gathered together.

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

A mistake that a lot of us have made, related to those who advocate for gun safety legislation, is that we try to process it through our legislative bodies, and that's where the NRA's strength lies.

Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.