Political Deadlock Quotes

Everybody sees a difficulty in the question of relations between Arabs and Jews. But not everybody sees that there is no solution to this question. No solution! There is a gulf, and nothing can bridge it... We, as a nation, want this country to be ours; the Arabs, as a nation, want this country to be theirs.

We can't have the government of the United States shut down when a group doesn't like something. This is almost an act of insurrection.

Congress has been reformed so much that it can't get anything done.

Filibuster is nothing less than a formula for tyranny by the minority

I think politics is a reason why a lot of stuff doesn't get done. There's a lot of favors, and a lot of people are held back by their intentions of being re-elected or the things that they owe their party or constituents.

India was going though a difficult time in 1997. We had revolving door governments.

The Democrats have responded to the Republicans' lack of dealing with reality by truly not dealing with reality, either.

With Obamacare's fate in jeopardy, Democrats have no solutions to solve the mess they forced upon Americans.

A divided government doesn't have to be a death blow to foreign policy.

I like Obama, but I understand that his hands are tied, the way Congress is reacting. It's just partisan politics everywhere, and don't know how we going to get things done in the future without compromising a little bit.

The Democrats are standing on one side, and the Republicans are playing games on the other. Both sides are playing games.

It's been 80 years since the Senate has confirmed a Supreme Court nominee who was nominated during an election. And particularly when the court hangs in the balance, it makes no sense whatsoever to give Barack Obama the power to jam through a judge in the final election year.

In the absence of a crisis, the status quo in Washington is more or less set in cement, as advocacy groups and turf-conscious government officials are able to thwart change.

People will pay a price for putting political obstruction over progress in a time that is so critical and urgent.

In a two-party system, if both parties ignore public opinion, there is no place voters can turn.

My view of the filibuster is either you've got to lower vote edge or make people really filibuster if they feel that seriously about a piece of legislation.

I will not sit with Netanyahu in the government!

Nobody wants a stalemate in constitutional development.

'The world's wealthiest failed state,' as it has come to be known, Belgium endured 589 days without a functioning elected government between June 2010 and December 2011 and remains a dysfunctional, linguistically divided waxworks of one federal and five regional-cultural parliaments.

I'll commit suicide before I vote on a clean minimum-wage bill.

The attitude of the Senate toward public affairs makes all serious negotiations impossible.

I will not introduce legislation to reopen divisive issues or to reopen issues that have already been settled by previous governments.

The truth is that America has been closely divided politically for quite some time. That was reflected in some of the challenges I had with the Republican Congress.

As every newspaper reader, liberal activist, or parliamentary junkie knows, the overarching barrier to most of Obama's agenda is the abuse of the filibuster in the Senate. In fact, several of Obama's second term priorities are not ideas in search of a majority - they are majorities in search of an up-or-down vote.

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