Somewhere in the neighborhood of 80 percent of the work you do as a legislator is a complete and total waste of time. The problem is you don’t know which is the 20 percent and which is the 80 percent until it’s all over. So you’ve got to do it all.
Kraig Paulsen, newly chosen Iowa House Speaker — suggesting to 22 new Iowa House representatives that most of what they do will amount to nothing.
