Quotes About Obstruction

She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible.

America has become what Francis Fukuyama calls a "vetocracy." The system of checks and balances, replicated at every level of government, ensures that someone, somewhere can always block any positive action. The United States has become a nation of naysayers.

Republicans have used the filibuster to turn the Senate into a de facto 60-vote body.

My wife Kris and I enjoy keeping an active lifestyle, so it's hard to imagine what it would be like if breathing problems kept me from participating in the activities I love to do. But that's exactly what happens to many people who develop COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

In any bureaucracy, there's a natural tendency to let the system become an excuse for inaction.

anything like that again, I'm going to charge you with obstruction of justice, and I swear

You can't stay on track when your own government is derailing you

Lester Morrow could quite possibly have enough pull with the army to foil Howell's own attempts at promotion.

I feel as a chessman must when the opponent says of it: that piece cannot be moved.

Get the hell out of my way!

MACHINATION, n. The method employed by one's opponents in baffling one's open and honorable efforts to do the right thing.

I must protest!' barked Lorsen. 'If you must, you must, but I won't be able to hear you with all this noise.' 'What noise?' Cosca stuck his fingers in his ears. 'Blah-lee-lah-lee-lah-lee-lah-lee-lah…!

The Republican majority will stop at nothing to prevent access to the legal system for those who are hurt.

So it was not superior thinkers, inventors or businesses that made Europe rich, but the fact that European elites were less successful in obstructing them... This is somewhat similar to our era of globalization. More countries, in more places, now have access to the sum of humanity's knowledge, and are open to the best innovations from other places... If progress is blocked in one place, many others will continue humanity's journey. (217-218)

I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life I have never obstructed justice.

Drive a coach and six through an Act of Parliament.

here comes the light, nameless and intangible, streaming 93 million unobstructed miles through the implacable black vacuum to break itself against a wall, a cornice, a column. It drenches, it crenellates, it textures, It throws the city into relief. The coins fall through the slot; the illumination box clicks on.

I have known the sun when I saw it, even though clouds dimmed its face.

No one wants a president to be guilty of obstruction of justice. The only thing worse than that is a guilty president who goes without punishment.

Many times somebody tried to help me be constructive and I just pushed them away.

I think if you're forthright and answer a lot of questions, sometimes you'll get people who won't let you answer the questions, and that makes for a difficult answer.

We are getting no messages," the signalman beside Paul said. "Much static.

He has the feeling that merely by being alive he is blocking his own way. From this sense of hindrance, in turn, he deduces the proof that he is alive.

If there is a nuclear tactic being used here, I submit it is the use of that obstruction where a willful minority blocks a bipartisan majority from voting on the President's judicial nominees.