Quotes About Gridlock

Less revenue, more people, more freight, more gridlock - that is not a formula for success.

When two sides to an issue become adversaries, cooperation is lost. The result is gridlock. Time and effort and energy are consumed that are desperately needed elsewhere.

Why do they call it rush hour when it lasts days and nobody can rush anywhere?

In the United States, the world's most important democracy, Congress seems permanently deadlocked, in hock to moneyed interests, unable to grapple with the big issues of climate change, technological change, the information revolution.

Things move very slowly in politics. We seem to fight the same wars over and over again.

Dublin was built for pedestrians and carriages, not for cars; it's full of tiny winding medieval streets, rush hour lasts from seven in the morning till eight at night, and at the first hint of bad weather the whole city goes into prompt, thorough gridlock.

For kilometres on end the road was totally jammed with vehicles drawn up three or four abreast - petrol tankers, ammunition trucks, teams of horses,ambulances. It was impossible to move forwards or back. Russian combat aircraft now arrived in wave after wave, and threw bombs into that unprotected, inextricable mass. This is what hell must be like.

I thought, That's it, I'm going to throw myself under the wheels of the car. I'm going to run over my own head. But I couldn't even do that because I couldn't get up any speed. If you ran over your head in this gridlock, you probably wouldn't even end up dead, and your hair would be all f***ed up.

The street was a yellow streak, however many yards wide, cabs and cabs and cabs and the occasional car that wasn't a cab so the whole thing looked like a scarcely-been-touched ear of corn.

It does mean that it's going to require more conscious effort on the part of American political leaders and American voters to halt our gridlock than in other countries.

Donald Trump could win the presidency without a popular-vote majority only because both parties have been locked into base-turnout strategies that are partially responsible for our government's ineffectiveness and gridlock.

What would happen is that every idiot in this town who owns a gun, which is basically every idiot in this town, would grab his gun, jump into his car, or somebody else's car, and lay rubber for I-95. Inside of ten minutes the city is gridlocked, and what happens next makes IwoJima look like a maypole dance. This whole town turns into the end of a Stephen King novel.

How our government works... it doesn't.

Nobody uses his car in New York, because so many people use it that traffic is congested and unbearably slow.

In L.A., the only thing within walking distance is your car.

If approval was a criterion in this country, nothing would ever get done.

The great thing about the U.S. economy right now is that we are the smart kids in the stupid-kid class. America has fiscal problems and gridlock issues and polarity and partisanship in Congress -- and yet, compared to Japan and Europe, the U.S. looks great.

traffic was worse than Manhattan at rush hour.

The Citizens United decision dramatically intensified the political gridlock in our country.

Government is dysfunctional.

Congress is dysfunctional.

My viewpoint is the Senate is dysfunctional.

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

Why do they call it "rush hour" when nothing moves?