Quotes About Stalemate

Zero-zero is a big score.

He only tied it

the radical right sought victory without compromise; ironically, their bête noire, the left-wing Lloyd George, seemed the only man likely to achieve this. The Unionists backed Lloyd George's coalition government, but in the continuing stalemate of 1917-18, the right became restless, and campaigned for Lloyd George's removal.

In my opinion, Israel has the right to its security in as much as the Palestinians have the right to resist occupation. Israel has the power in this perpetual stalemate, as it also has the power to break it and begin a meaningful peace process.

Neither father nor son moved, but stayed face to face for hours and hours, neither looking away nor surrendering, until the sun finished its daily pilgrimage, for no day is so long that it is not ended by nightfall.

We've been sitting at the compromise table for a long time. We're just waiting for that cold chair to be warmed up by the Republican leadership. They still have time to do the right thing and be responsible. They just seem to be moving further and further away from it.

Washington is broken.

To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past. To suggest that we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion.

That was the only thing Washington was good at these days—recriminations and apportionment of blame. There was once a time, during the darkest days of the Cold War, when American foreign policy was characterized by consensus and steadfastness. Now the two parties could not agree on what to call the enemy, let alone how to combat him.

The months subsequent were an endless dreary battle of paperwork, full of stalemates, fought in trenches.

It meant that the silently waged conflict between himself and his cleaning lady had escalated to a new and more frightening level. It was now, Dirk reckoned, fully three months since this fridge door had been opened, and each of them was grimly determined not to be the one to open it first.

Wars without military objectives have a tendency to go on forever.

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

You're a full portion of what I don't like,' she said. 'Get out of my way.' I didn't move. She didn't move. We were both sitting down – and not even close to each other.

It's clear Israel has suspended the peace process, despite the so-called moderation of the Arab world, because it has no interest in peace.

On all vital measures, measures necessary to protect you, the Democrats in Washington follow a simple philosophy: Just say no.

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

My guest Newt Gingrich shut down the government during the Clinton administration. I'll ask him when it's gonna start working again.

It wasn't too difficult to see that [Ian] Paisley would never do anything positive.

There is good news from Washington today. Congress is deadlocked and can't act.

We were eyeball-to-eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it.

This administration is doing everything we can to end the stalemate in an efficient way. We're making the right decisions to bring the solution to an end.

The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.