Quotes About Obstruction

For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design.

The point could hardly have been clearer: if the president was pressuring the director because he feared that an investigation of Michael Flynn would damage him, then this was an obstruction of justice.

And then he delivered a scornful critique of Robert Mueller: "What an asshole." And there, perhaps, Trump had something of a point. If this was the result—a pass on conspiracy and equivocation on obstruction—how could you not have hastened it along, or, worse, how could you have fostered the exact opposite impression?

every single lawyer who had worked on Trump's first impeachment was conveniently unavailable.

Our enemies weren't about to give us even an inch.

There are now electrical appliances with the main unit so sealed in that it cannot be got at for repair. There have always been human beings like that.

sometimes I struggle to get the thoughts out of my head because they are stuck behind one another like cars in a traffic jam.

Mr. President, you were elected to lead. You chose to follow. And now it's time for you to get out of the way.

A world where players have enough power to block everyone else's initiatives but no one has the power to impose its preferred course of action is a world where decisions are not taken, taken too late, or watered down to the point of ineffectiveness. Without

A world where players have enough power to block everyone else's initiatives but no one has the power to impose its preferred course of action is a world where decisions are not taken, taken too late, or watered down to the point of ineffectiveness.

La política siempre ha sido el arte del compromiso, pero ahora parece haberse convertido en el arte de impedir que se logren acuerdos.

Un mundo en el cual todos tienen el poder suficiente para impedir las iniciativas de los demás, pero en el que nadie tiene poder para imponer una línea de actuación, es un mundo donde las decisiones no se toman, se toman demasiado tarde o se diluyen hasta resultar ineficaces.

That's the trouble with this country, people keep messin' up each other's movies.

There was a woman whose body was swollen up with child, and she got stuck in the log. After that, no one could get through, and that is why the Kiowas are a small tribe in number.

He] starts to talk and stops, feeling his way, as if it's all clogged up rusty inside.

Exactly as the shadow appears when light is intercepted by the body, so does the person arise when pure self-awareness is obstructed by the "I am the body" idea. And as the shadow changes shape and position according to the lay of the land, so does the person appear to rejoice and suffer, rest and toil, find and lose, according to the pattern of destiny.

Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice.

There's a difference between trying to stop an injustice and obstructing justice.

Fucking civil servants, always stand in the way of progress.

In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority.

So the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his fatherís servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.

You were running so well. Who has obstructed you from obeying the truth?

For we wanted to come to you—indeed I, Paul, tried again and again—but Satan obstructed us.