Becoming Quote by Jared Polis

Before you can have an act of Congress, you have to have a Congress willing to act.

— Al N. Green

Creating legislation is a tough process. But watering down legislation? Strangling it with lawsuits and comment letters and blue-ribbon committees? Not so tough, it…

— Matt Taibbi

Congress is, after all, not a body of laymen unfamiliar with the commonplaces of our law. This legislation was the formulation of the two…

— Felix Frankfurter

What I have come to realize over the twenty years when I have worked in different roles as a legislator is that no legislation…

— Margrethe Vestager

If I am elected to Congress, I plan to introduce legislation tying Congressional pay to performance.

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

You have to build relationships and learn what are the things that are of interest to other members of Congress, what are the things…

— Sharice Davids

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

When you're a member of Congress, you can become an expert in a couple of subjects. For example, I've worked on federal procurement reform,…

— Tammy Duckworth

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

Dont count on Congress. Laws come into being because people on the ground demand it.

— Terri Sewell

Justice White's conclusion is perhaps correct, if one assumes that the task of a court of law is to plumb the intent of the…

— Antonin Scalia

My younger self could not imagine standing on the floor of Congress as a member of Congress voting on legislation that, if enacted, would…

— Ritchie Torres