Bills Quote by Kirsten Gillibrand

The frustration of the Senate is that it's slow. It looks like an aquarium.

— Jim Webb

The Senate, compared to the House, is where things are supposed to slow down, by design, Founding Father design. The Founding Fathers were hell-bent…

— Rush Limbaugh

When I got to the Senate, one of the things that most bothered me is this lack of urgency about the major issues.

— Marco Rubio

For most governors, we find the United States Senate or the United States Congress very frustrating at the slow pace in which they act.…

— Dave Heineman

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

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 Senate is indeed a deliberative body, and that quality serves the nation well. A slow-moving government helps us maintain a stable government. But…

— John C. Danforth

Most senators are just going to work and trying to do a job.

— Judd Gregg

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

The Senate, as opposed to the House, has been less successful in advancing some of the legislation that I think are important to Hoosiers.

— Todd Young

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

The United States Senate is already chock full of career politicians and insiders who fall in line for political expediency and refuse to stand…

— Todd Wilcox