A Quote by Gary Herbert

Congress seems to be very good at doing nothing.

Gary Herbert

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Gary Herbert
American - Politician
Born: May 7, 1947

Congress is good at doing two things: one is nothing, and the other is overreacting.

Hal Abelson

The American people want jobs and economic growth. Congress is doing nothing to provide that. The American people want their constitutional liberties protected. Congress is doing nothing to provide that.

Ted Cruz

I am going to work with people who hold similar views to me inside Congress, outside of Congress to make certain that we come together to stop Trump from doing some of the very ugly things that he has talked about doing.

Bernie Sanders

The only alternative seems to be doing nothing…and doing nothing, I find, rarely accomplishes anything

Cassandra Clare

We cuss Congress, and we joke about 'em, but they are all good fellows at heart, and if they wasn't in Congress, why, they would be doing something else against us that might be even worse.

Will Rogers

Nothing. My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking.

George R. R. Martin

The 112th Congress passed only 220 laws, the lowest number enacted by any Congress. In 1948, when President Truman called the 80th Congress a 'Do-Nothing' Congress, it had passed more than 900 laws.

Juan Williams

Well, painting today certainly seems very vibrant, very alive, very exiting. Five or six of my contemporaries around New York are doing very vital work, and the direction that painting seems to be taken here - is - away from the easel - into some sort, some kind of wall, wall painting.

Jackson Pollock

Doing anything when you're bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.

Aidan Chambers

I think people do look to writers to tell the truth in a way that nobody else quite will, not politicians or ministers or sociologists. A writer's job, is to, by way of fiction, somehow describe the way we live. And to me, this seems an important task, very worth doing, and I think also, to the reading public, it seems, even though they might not articulate it, it seems to them something worth doing also.

John Updike

Nothing is as good as it seems and nothing is as bad, but somewhere between reality falls.

Lou Holtz

Just remember that nothing is as bad as it seems and nothing is as good as it sometimes appears.

Troy Aikman

There seems to me nothing very bad about a nation's capital having good intentions - and when the intentions are magnificent, so much the better.

Katharine Graham

We talk a lot in Congress about how we're going to encourage more development in renewables, and we put in place a subsidy that's good for two years. Then Congress argues and bickers over whether or not we're going to extend it. As a consequence, nothing happens because we've put so much uncertainty into the prospect of these subsidies.