Beginning Quote by Colin Allred

Congress was designed by the Founding Fathers to move slowly, precisely to avoid the sudden panic of a one-week solution that becomes a 20-year…

— Newt Gingrich

We tend to think of the House as a less historically significant legislative body than the Senate. There are more representatives than there are…

— S.E. Cupp

A house divided cannot stand for long. That goes for politicians and the rest of us.

— Willie D

There is a flaw in the operation of representative government. The flaw produces the growth of government.

— Allan H. Meltzer

The bottom line is that every single member of Congress has to get voted into office every two or six years. That means they…

— Ezra G. Levin

I guess for every government - for many governments, they only have short vision, they only have three-year term or a four-year term. So…

— Shi Zhengrong

I didn't understand how much senators and members of the House are not able to represent the people because they're too busy fundraising to…

— Jessica Chastain

“It is interesting to note that under our original Constitution the highest office for which citizens could vote was their member of the House…

— Neal Boortz

The electoral system is not where change starts - it usually starts in communities and from the bottom up - but it is where…

— Gloria Steinem

Too often, people get elected to a body, to any office, and the first thing they do is talk about how this year, it's…

— Bob Wise

In the UK we have general elections roughly every four or five years because we know circumstances, situations and therefore opinions change over time.

— Konnie Huq

To sustain a governing majority, that requires an ability for Republicans and Democrats to find some common ground. And right now, the structure of…

— Barack Obama