Quotes About Obstruction

There are occasions when obstruction in Parliament brings greater benefits to the country.

The people in Iowa know that Washington isn't working. It's devolved into partisan politics and a lot of gridlock and obstruction.

In a sense, a collection of dirty dishes is a traffic jam.

wasn't just another piece of shit in the sewer to her: It was the one that clogged the pipe.

To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.

But he didn't say anything, and neither did she. Not because the words were deliberately withheld, but because the pipeline between them was too occluded for such bravery.

the emergence of rage out of intense grief is a biological universal and that long-term obstruction of grief and failure to communalize grief and can lock a person in chronic rage.

The image of God is your final obstruction to a religious experience.

Such an image of one's god becomes a final obstruction, one's ultimate barrier. You hold on to your own ideology, your own little manner of thinking, and when a larger experience of God approaches, an experience greater than you are prepared to receive, you take flight from it by clinging to the image in your mind. This is known as preserving your faith.

You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.

For too long, Paul LePage tried to stand in the way of getting things done in Maine.

We tried our best for the longest time to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the matter, and at each step, we were thwarted by those that said, No, we will not turn the boy over to his father.

There's no use to having the majority if you are going to be hamstrung by your perception of political vicissitudes.

I've learned over a period of years there are setbacks when you come up against the immovable object; sometimes the object doesn't move.

I cannot permit you to disrupt the Paramount schedule.

Open your door to that which must go, for the loss becomes unseemly when obstructed.

In fact, man has been able to make his pursuit of power easier to-day by his art of mitigating the obstructive forces that came from the higher region of his humanity.

We've seen filibusters of bills and nominations that ultimately passed with 90 or more votes. Why filibuster something that has that kind of support? Just to slow down the process and keep the Senate from working.

Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause. Perhaps he will start to champion perjury statutes and obstruction of justice.

In the more than four decades since Roe v. Wade, it has become clear that some will stop at nothing to obstruct women's reproductive rights.

We left the guns hidden in the car and tried walking into the polling place again, and the mob blocked us again. We didn't pursue it.

I block shots and stay out the way.

My goal is to protect the basket. Most of the time, I won't block the shot but I'm going to affect the shot or I'm going to affect the way they think.

I think my wingspan helps me out on defense, because I can cover a little more ground and block a few more shots.