Deadlock Quotes

The convention will be dead-locked, and after the other candidates have gone their limit, some twelve or fifteen men, worn-out and bleary-eyed for lack of sleep, will sit down about two in the morning around a table in a smoke-filled room in some hotel and decide the nomination. When that time comes [Warren Gamaliel] Harding will be selected.

Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.

I cannot be any clearer, minority governments don't work.

I do hope that next year Republicans and Democrats will do nothing.

There are two things you find in the middle of the road—a moderate and a dead skunk.

In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.

We cannot deal with the debt. The Democrats are not going to allow reductions in entitlements like Social Security. The Republicans will not allow one dime of additional taxes. We have a deadlock of democracy.

There is still nothing on the proverbial scoreboard.

Reflection is not the evil; but a reflective condition and the deadlock which it involves, by transforming the capacity for action into a means of escape from action, is both corrupt and dangerous, and leads in the end to a retrograde movement.

Washington has, with some justification, gained a reputation for being hopelessly mired in partisan gridlock.

In Washington, compromise has become a dirty word.

When neither party can give checkmate, the game is drawn.

We need to avoid going down a path where we might find the doors slamming shut behind us.

Both sides think that they have a good chance of winning. That’s the recipe for a long war.

Lack of outlets, excess capacity, complete deadlock, in the end regular recurrence of national bankruptcies and other disasters--perhaps world wars from sheer capitalist despair--may confidently be anticipated. History is as simple as that.

The minority makes every effort to delay business.

If there's not any endgame, we're in quicksand. We take one more step, and we're still there, and there's no way out.

Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.'

One problem can stop a whole agreement.

If you become deadlocked,return to the prime point.

The Cul-de-Sac ( French for "dead end" ) ... is a situation where you work and work and work and nothing much changes

Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

It is with unwelcome frequency that I find myself the deciding vote.

And I'm here to tell you, the reaction that I'm getting around the country, people are sick and tired of this word in Washington, compromise. This is why nothing ever gets done.

The only nonpartisan people are those who are dead.