Chairman Quote by Mitch McConnell

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

Congress is too old. They don't have a stake in the game.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Our representative democracy is not working because the Congress that is supposed to represent the voters does not respond to their needs. I believe…

— Shirley Chisholm

We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

That's why I call the Senate the graveyard of democracy, because even when you have 58 senators, they can block it and block it…

— Ralph Nader

Fundamental problem in American democracy is that we are allowing congressmen and senators to be bought and sold like sneakers.

— Alex Gibney

You have a hundred senators, but for anything to happen you need 60, which makes it really hard for anything to happen.

— Rush Limbaugh

“The people in one district can choose not to reelect their member of Congress, but that will not change the composition of the government…

— Milton Friedman

I often felt myself the lone voice in discussions suggesting that basic democratic principles be followed. I recommended that not only should workers' voices…

— Joseph Stiglitz

Nobody under the age of 55 should be able to stand for election, and nobody under the age of 30 should be able to…

— Peter Hitchens

In the Senate, where 60 votes are required to do anything important, you have to work with your colleagues on both sides of the aisle.

— Lamar Alexander

It doesn't entirely make sense that if 51 senators are from one party, and they can stick together, they can do whatever they want.…

— Gene Weingarten