American people Quote by Emanuel Cleaver

If you look through history, all of the great work we've done in Congress has been around a table of compromise, when it comes…

— Claire McCaskill

There is too much blind partisanship in Congress, which has blocked progress on critical issues. Too many members view compromise as weakness rather than…

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

People of the United States of America, your Congress is bought, your Congress is incapable of making legislation on healthcare, banking, trade, or taxes…

— Dylan Ratigan

Congress is hard to deal with, dealing with, you know, multiple parliaments and commissions and unions and this and that and the other, that's…

— Barack Obama

The Congress is virtually incapable of passing any reforms unless they first get permission from the powerful special interests who are most affected by…

— Al Gore

Congress is dysfunctional.

— Bob Filner

My father ran for Congress in 2004, and I got a sense that there is no way to achieve much success without a certain…

— George Clooney

It's no great secret, number one, in my view, and I think the view of most Americans, that Congress itself is pretty dysfunctional. We…

— Bernie Sanders

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

— Carl Bernstein

It is hard sometimes to get the Congress to do what you want to do and you have to keep working at it.

— Hillary Clinton

Most Americans, who think Congress has a right to do anything for which they can get a majority vote, ignore the clearly written constitutional…

— Walter E. Williams

Congress is where Americans are supposed to have our big, messy political fights. That's because the people who make the laws need to be…

— Ben Sasse