Congress Quote by Ritchie Torres Download Open image “Congress is a long game. It takes a long time to wield influence in Washington, D.C.” — Ritchie Torres ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Congress Game Influence Long Long Game Long time Time
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 Copy Share Image
I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Members of Congress have more in common with the people they hobnob in Washington, D.C., than they do with the people they're supposed to… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Today’s Congress is a polarized, dysfunctional body, rendered helpless by partisanship, more focused on scoring short-term political points than on solving our nation’s urgent… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
I've seen Congress do some remarkable things within a short period of time. — Anthony Foxx Copy Share Image
It is no secret that Washington, D.C., is a tempest of people and institutions relentlessly seeking power over the lives of everyday Americans. — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Congress always gets new blood. You have to balance that with people who know what's going on. It's no different than a business, it's… — Michael Capuano Copy Share Image
Congress was designed by the Founding Fathers to move slowly, precisely to avoid the sudden panic of a one-week solution that becomes a 20-year… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Too often in Washington special interests urge us to fight one another just because we belong to different parties. It is time for this… — Ken Salazar Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I am both black and Latino - there's no need to artificially barricade one from the other. — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
Exercising dominion over Puerto Rico, as the U.S. has done for more than a century - without granting Puerto Ricans the full franchise in… — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
Racial identity is chosen and given. It is as much a product of the world's perception of you as it is of your own… — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
I lived in public housing and had to struggle with depression and substance abuse. — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
With a multi-billion dollar market capitalization, crypto is here to stay. It's not going anywhere. — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
I spent almost all my life in poverty, raised by a single mother who had to raise three children on minimum wage, which in… — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
I'm grateful for the blessing and burden of public service; I promised my constituents that I would work my heart out for them. — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
I take an expansive view of infrastructure. For me, infrastructure is more than roads and bridges. It's about the quality of the water we… — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
New York City should and must embrace crypto if it is to remain the financial capital of the world. We no longer live in… — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984. — Ed Gillespie Copy Share Image
We will make sure our troops have all that is necessary to complete their missions. That's why I went to the Congress last September… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I can't imagine that I would be asked that by the president-elect [Donald Trump], or then-president [Barack Obama]. But it's - I'm very clear.… — James Mattis Copy Share Image
So our focus has to be on the things that we can control, which is to take the necessary measures working with Congress to… — Jay Carney Copy Share Image
It's disgraceful that year after year, Congress has bowed to the tobacco lobby and refused to act. — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
The Constitution is very clear on the - on the declaration of war or reacting to international crimes - crimes against nations. It is… — Joe Pitts Copy Share Image
Can you understand why the Congress, most states and most cities refuse to pass legislation requiring the registration and licensing of any and all… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
As the longest serving Independent in the history of the United States Congress, as somebody who came into office by defeating an incumbent Democratic… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
As the first Member of Congress from western Washington to serve on the House Agriculture Committee in over 50 years, I am proud to… — Rick Larsen Copy Share Image
About one-half of the members of Congress are seekers for office at the nomination of the President. Of the remainder, at least one-half have… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
We need less travelling by jet plaes from congress to congress... but more kneeling and praying and pleading to God to have mercy on… — Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to… — Laura Ingraham Copy Share Image
