Quotes About Gridlock

Nothing beats weaving through the rush-hour traffic or whizzing past the eternal gridlock that is the Strand.

Just think in terms of green energy and how much time, money, brain power and policy action has started to pour into green energy, and I think that's wonderful. We're going to need that same kind of effort towards global gridlock if we're going to keep the individual mobility that we all take for granted today.

Many times, the Senate talks of things and never gets anything through.

In their political careers, Obama and Biden faced down lobbyists, Tea Party carpetbaggers, and Washington gridlock.

Traffic heading south through Manhattan was horrible, even with NYPD motorcycle escorts. The gridlock was such that there was nowhere for them to go. Nothing to do but wait for the clots to work themselves through.

If traffic is congested and our roads are blocked, transportation is slowed and the wheels of economic progress are slowed.

Rush hour in LA started thirty years ago. It'll finish when the oil runs out.

I believe we need new leadership to put the partisan gridlock behind us, and I promised my constituents I would vote for new leadership.

Sequestration, sequestation - however you pronounce that word - and gridlock aren't all that bad.

Having voted in ways that ensure gridlock, Americans point to that very gridlock and despair that any good can come from Washington.

The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes of 2012.

Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?

You know, I think when you are unemployed, especially for a long time, it's hard to be inspired or hopeful almost about anything. So it's tough, especially when there has been such gridlock here in D.C. You know, when we are fighting and can't get anything done, whether you are liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican, no one wins.

With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.

The way you can tell there's democracy going on is that nothing gets done.

Say no to parking lots!

Our intent will not be to create gridlock. Oh, except maybe from time to time.

Gridlock at the public level guarantees liberty at the private level: this was the dirty little secret Madison dared to unveil in the Federalist Papers.

Gridlock at the public level guarantees liberty at the private level: this was the dirty little secret Madison dared to unveil in the Federalist Papers. If scholars sometimes joke that David Hume is the "real" author of the Tenth Federalist, it is not just because it lays out Hume's vision of an extended republic managing to govern itself into perpetuity.

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.

The Peterson Foundation calculates that, since 2010, fiscal uncertainty—i.e., gridlock—might have slowed America's GDP growth by one percentage point and stopped the creation of two million jobs.

Horns sounded from the trapped vehicles on the motorway, a despairing chorus.

When I first ran for Congress, I decided that I would not take pledges to vote for or against any issue. I believe the practice of taking pledges contributes to the worst of the partisan gridlock in Washington, preventing many members of Congress from even considering a reasonable compromise offered by the other side.

The problem in Washington is that no one is trying to work together.