Quotes About Politics

Congress can't take the year off, election or no election.

The Congress is a power-oriented party.

You can't win a congressional seat unless you have money. Even if you do, it's tick-tock, tick-tock until someone with more money beats you.

We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections.

I think the media loves taking the most absurd clips for a sport that has become congressional politics.

Congressional dysfunction is the logical result of closed primaries, too many gerrymandered one-party seats, and low-turnout elections.

I don't look like a normal congressional candidate.

There was nothing exceptional about growing up as the son of a congressman.

You can't go to Washington as a congressman and a senator and expect to make a difference all at once. You have to earn your way.

Our dad was just a congressman for 27 years, and if you live in Washington, D.C., everybody's dad works for the government. We grew up just like everyone else.

Americans don't mind rich politicians. History is full of them. What they do mind are people who ask for their vote but don't connect with them.

Government is connected to everything we do.

Does it seem like Washington's rigged for the well connected? That's because it is.

I went to school in Connecticut, at Connecticut College, and then really started to get bitten by the political bug.

Primaries are the place where you see whose message is connecting with the largest number of people.

On 'Veep,' people are connecting with each other, even if they're making backhanded comments about somebody behind someone else's back.

I have no connections with any political event.

All too often politicians duck issues for fear of the connotations attached to the subject. Leadership, however, means confronting those issues.

The president said, 'You've got to vote your conscience.

Politics isn't that difficult; it is about finding your conscience again. So, just do what is right.

I'm conscious of my race and ethnicity in the legislature - it's hard not to be.

I believe that there is a bipartisan consensus to have individual mandates.

It typically takes bipartisan work to build enough consensus to get things through our legislative process.

I mean, the idea of a government shutdown, it's a consequence of our system.