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The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad.

Sometimes we pay too much attention in Washington to public relations, as opposed to the substance.

I think if more members of Congress would talk about what they see and what they want to do and what they want to accomplish, rather than talking about their opponent, we would begin to shape and reshape American public opinion on what the political world looks like.

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

Thousands of members of Congress have come and gone over the years, their individual achievements hidden in committee reports, private compromises, amendments pushed through or blocked, and innumerable, unnoticed meetings.

As Members of Congress, we should not be using public office for private gain.

Congress becomes the public voice of opposition.

Few Americans have ever met their Congresspeople. They don't see them at the grocery store; they don't meet them at the bowling alley. They're more likely to see their representatives in photographs from the Daily Grill in Washington, D.C., than at a local town hall.

The problem... is that most members of Congress don't pay attention to what's going on.

There aren't a whole lot of people out of 300 million who could elected to the Congress.