Avoid Quote by Newt Gingrich

Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less…

— Anonymous

Congress is a long game. It takes a long time to wield influence in Washington, D.C.

— Ritchie Torres

Making Congress into a less crisis-driven institution starts with electing members of Congress who can take the long view.

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

I've seen Congress do some remarkable things within a short period of time.

— Anthony Foxx

If you look through history, all of the great work we've done in Congress has been around a table of compromise, when it comes…

— Claire McCaskill

When Congress legislates in haste, it often causes more problems than it solves. But Congress rarely reconsiders its mistakes.

— David Malpass

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

Washington is designed not to solve problems. Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated…

— E. L. Doctorow

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

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

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

As soon as the 116th Congress began, it became clear that getting anything accomplished would require thinking outside the box - and sometimes across…

— Michael Waltz