Can do Quote by Jon Stewart

From an institution standpoint, I want the American people to understand that the Senate can function, even on the most serious things.

— Richard Burr

The only reason the House hasn't done even more damage is that the Senate often sands down the most noxious ideas, making the bills…

— Jonathan Alter

The Senate is extremely slow: They have enormous difficulty passing the bills that even get through the House. That's the reality that I've recognized…

— Kirsten Gillibrand

The Senate as an institution is broken. We're not doing the work of the American people and the rules are being abused. The only…

— Tom Udall

It's a cliche that the Senate is broken, and like most cliches, it's true.

— George Packer

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

Heaven forbid we've got a problem where we could have prevented a terrorist attack or apprehended someone who is engaged in dangerous activity, but…

— Barack Obama

When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that what our…

— Claire McCaskill

What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when…

— Lindsey Graham

My viewpoint is the Senate is dysfunctional.

— Mo Brooks

The Democrats said, "We don't know what's wrong with America, but we can fix it." The Republicans said, "There's nothing wrong with America, and…

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

— John Cornyn