37 Quotes by Norman Ornstein

The pending complaint on DeLay was on the Texas case (over political fund raising),

We build people up who have positions of power or visibility and venerate them and then have to show they have feet of clay.

When you have a dramatic expansion of the ability of individual members to direct federal funds or to designate contracts, you are creating the most fertile environment for corruption imaginable.

What she did just makes you cringe. It's clearly unethical by any standard.

To a large degree the durability of this compromise is going to depend on the actions of President Bush. He can keep it or blow it up. It depends on what kind of judges he nominates.

Everything that surrounded the K Street Project and what flowed from it all of that is under intense pressure.

Even if the reality is, there's nothing more that he could have done back in Washington or anywhere else ... the symbol matters.

Even those people in the leadership who've done commendable jobs may find themselves in the cross hairs just because it's possible there will be a more widespread desire for change.

Congress as a whole needs to step back and look at the way it conducts its business. It's not just lobbyists influencing members of Congress, it's members of Congress shaking down lobbyists for money.