Gridlock Quote by William Safire Download Open image “Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.'” — William Safire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gridlock Motto My motto Politics
Our intent will not be to create gridlock. Oh, except maybe from time to time. — Bob Dole Copy Share Image
If you want gridlock in Washington,then I'm probably not your guy because I'm running a campaign to say I can fix these things because… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
If you apply conservative principles and you stick with it, and you have the leadership skills to bring people toward the cause, you can… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
The political disfunction that has brought about the shutdown and now threatens default, isn't so much gridlock. It is exposing the fatal flaw in… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
Going off the grid is always good for me. It's the way that I've started books and finished books and gotten myself out of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We had a lot of gridlock on a lot of issues. But, the American system is pretty resilient. — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
As you get a changing of the guard in Washington D.C., with different people from different sectors, you'll start to break through the gridlock. — Ted Lieu Copy Share Image
Working in lock-step simply isn't a good idea. Never has been, never will be. — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Of course, the genesis of a good portion of the gridlock in Congress does not reside in Congress itself. Ultimate reform will require each… — Evan Bayh Copy Share Image
I don't think that split government is a good idea. Conventional wisdom in Washington for years has been that divided government is good because… — Scott Walker Copy Share Image
Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat Somebody with Nobody. — William Safire Copy Share Image
Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight. — William Safire Copy Share Image
What do you call a co-worker these days? Neither teammate nor confederate will do, and partner is too legalistic. The answer brought from academia… — William Safire Copy Share Image
This is what it's all about. From what I could see, you could get a bunch of people together, whip up the press and… — William Safire Copy Share Image
When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary. — William Safire Copy Share Image
A man who lies, thinking it is the truth, is an honest man, and a man who tells the truth, believing it to be… — William Safire Copy Share Image
The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is… — William Safire Copy Share Image
Today, war of necessity is used by critics of military action to describe unavoidable response to an attack like that on Pearl Harbor that… — William Safire Copy Share Image
Unlike Washington, which is stuck in ideological gridlock, Americans feel the impact of climate change in their own hometowns and they know something must… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
If you want gridlock in Washington,then I'm probably not your guy because I'm running a campaign to say I can fix these things because… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
We had a lot of gridlock on a lot of issues. But, the American system is pretty resilient. — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
I don't want to be elected president to sit around and see gridlock just become so dominant that people literally decline in their lives. That's not my motivation. I have a lot of cool things to do other than sitting around, being miserable, listening to people demonize me and being compelled to demonize them. That is a joke. Elect Trump… — Jeb Bush Copy Share
Overpopulation in the United States will become THE single greatest issue facing Americans in the 21st century. We either solve it proactively or nature… — Frosty Wooldridge Copy Share Image
At Last It's a perfect winter day. No wind. No Arctic freeze. Cloudless azure sky. A day to fly. Snow drapes the mountain like ermine, fabulous feather- light powder coaxing me to flee the confines of my room, brave the mostly plowed road up to the closest ski resort. To run from the cloying silence connected Mom and Dad, into… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share
“The Daily Grind by Stewart Stafford Crooked broker flashes teeth, Cannibal flesh on their napkin, The traffic jam zombie shuffle, Stars, take me home quickly. Follow the screaming off a cliff, Panic echoes as the land recoils, Sea spray whipping up at you fast, Splash down into drowning lessons. See a shark fin’s scything slash, Fangs picked clean with a… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share
Obama has already demonstrated an extraordinary ability to change the limits of what one can say publicly. His greatest achievement up to now is that, in his refined non-provocative way, he has introduced into public speech topics which had hitherto been de facto unsayable: the continuing importance of race in politics, the positive role of atheists in public life, the… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share
Of course, the genesis of a good portion of the gridlock in Congress does not reside in Congress itself. Ultimate reform will require each… — Evan Bayh Copy Share Image
[Barack Obama] says that he thinks America felt better, more confident, because Washington was not simply in a gridlock, in stasis, where nothing was… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
I don't believe that the American people want us to focus on our job security. They want us to focus on their job security. I don't think they want more gridlock. I don't think they want more partisanship. I don't think they want more obstruction. They didn't send us to Washington to fight each other in some sort of political… — Barack Obama Copy Share
To be a mass tourist, for me,...is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
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