Balance Quote by Michael Capuano

It is almost impossible for anyone outside this damn beltway to really understand how the Congress works. If you aren't here, walking the halls…

— Brock N. Meeks

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

All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a…

— John Quincy Adams

Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who…

— E. L. Doctorow

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

A lot of members of Congress are isolated. They tend to be affluent. They tend to have a lot of people doing things for…

— Kirsten Gillibrand

We need a Congress that cares more about doing the people's business than their own.

— Christine Todd Whitman

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens - and then everybody disagrees.

— Boris Marshalov

Unfortunately, most of Congress has little to offer except making noise and knowing how to move up the bloated political chain.

— Robert Blaha

Congress is corrupt, gridlocked, broken, dysfunctional. It's not working and we need it working again. It's not going to get fixed by people who…

— Zephyr Teachout

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

Congress has become so dysfunctional that more and more of a burden is placed on the agencies to fill in the gaps. And the…

— Barack Obama