Comprehensive Quote by Max Baucus

The job of a legislator is much more fixing existing law, revising it, improving it, than it is passing something that doesn't exist.

— Tim Kaine

Legislation is about three fundamental things - affordability, access, and quality. That's what the American people want.

— Sylvia Mathews Burwell

The Senate is a remarkable institution. It is unique. There is no other body, no other political body, no other democratic legislature in the…

— Max Baucus

As I've learned in my time in the state legislature, important legislation is always a work in progress.

— Marco Rubio

Another advantage accruing from this ingredient in the constitution of a senate, is the additional impediment it must prove against improper acts of legislation.…

— James Madison

If becoming a member of Congress is like going to college, then crafting legislation is our homework.

— Jared Polis

The important thing to understand about legislators is that there are dozens of competing interests and issues that occupy them. They are stretched thin.

— Mark Shields

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

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 structure of the Senate concentrates power in a small subset of states that are much whiter, much more rural, much more conservative than…

— Ritchie Torres

A majority of senators should be able to adopt rules at the beginning of each Congress.

— Tom Udall