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Jim Cooper Quotes

American - Politician | June 19, 1954 -

In Congress, it's all pork, all the time.

Time Congress Pork

Congress as a whole is less popular than it's been since polling was invented.

Congress Whole Been Than Less Since

If taxpayers want better results from Congress, they must stop paying their elected officials for failure. After all, you get what you pay for.

Failure Better You Results Stop Pay

Our nation suffers when Congress fails to pay America's bills on time.

Time America Congress Nation Pay

Ultimately, Congressional medicine is like veterinary medicine: It must be strong enough to work, and tasty enough to swallow.

Work Be Strong Medicine Strong Must

True partisans draft legislation that gives themselves everything and their enemies nothing. They love bills that repulse and even disgust the other side. Today's politics have become an all-or-nothing, black-or-white, zero-sum game - it's not a contact sport but a blood sport.

Love Today Politics Game Blood True

The truth is that health-care reform will always be a nuisance, with version 2.0 followed by next year's 2.1. As long as it boosts productivity, it's worth it.

Truth Truth Is Year Long Worth Will

Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call this arteriosclerosis; historians see decline of empire.

Aging Body Blood Flow See Empire

Immortality awaits the legislator fortunate enough to have a significant law named after him. Think of Pell grants or Stafford loans for students, Sarbanes-Oxley to regulate Wall Street, or the Hyde Amendment on abortions.

Law Think Enough Wall Street Him

Any politician who's ever been re-elected knows that friends come and go; enemies accumulate.

Friends Come And Go Go Enemies Been

I think the job of leadership is to expand what can be talked about and to get consensus on the nature of the problem, and that is most of the job. Because once you do that, once you have diagnosis, treatment options are obvious.

Nature Leadership Job Think Problem

Most of my folks back home think Social Security and Medicare are sacred commitments stronger than the strongest contract. And yet if you look at the details here in Washington, they're not even promises. They're scheduled benefits. I think we need to do all that we can to make sure those benefits are real.

Home Promises Think Details Look

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