Mark Meadows Quotes

You know the way Washington works. Once you start floating ideas, they are immediately attacked by all the different interest groups before the ideas can be brought to fruition.

While I have worked hard to bring folks to the middle to craft common-sense solutions to the many problems that confront our nation, Washington is mired in gridlock, gamesmanship and constant partisan bickering.

In typical Washington fashion, nothing gets reformed until a disaster happens.

It's the No.1 issue with people I talk to, whether Republican, Democrat or independent. They want to see the way business is done in Washington change.

What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians.

A massive state and federal effort, the likes of which we've never seen is going to be needed. We can do it for tsunami victims half a world away. We can do it for our own citizens.

Imagine if, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Gulf Coast residents had to wait on Democrats and Republicans to agree on cuts before receiving clean water or loans to rebuild. Congress' negotiations often come slow or not at all.

After a national crisis, it’s never too early for a partisan debate in Washington.

If you really want to get something done in Washington, it has to be done in a bi-Partisan way.

Politicians in Washington work in a small, sheltered world where they lurch from crisis to crisis that they create, nurture and use as ideological triggers in their selfish pursuit of re-election.

There is just no substitute for seeing a disaster area firsthand and getting the chance to speak in person to victims and responders.

We need new energy back in Washington.

When the going gets tough in Washington, presidents appoint 'blue ribbon' commissions.

I think in the wake of Katrina, the Coast Guard may well have been the only entity or agency that came out of that exercise free of fault and free of blame.

How can you have a partnership when one of the partners doesn’t show up for 5 days…. The President said nothing while Americans watched people drown in New Orleans.

We truly have a balance of power. The Republicans control Washington and the Democrats control Hollywood.

People want divided government.

Washington has become a place where good ideas come to die.

In the pandemonium of the crisis in New Orleans, somehow getting people on busses took priority over keeping them alive.

Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.

Responding to a natural disaster is a complex problem.

Health reform is, in some ways, a microcosm to everything that's right about Washington and everything that's wrong about it.

Hurricane Katrina was the storm of the 21st century. It devastated an area the size of Great Britain. More than 1,800 Americans died. Three hundred thousand homes were destroyed. There was $96 billion in property damage. I served on the Louisiana Recovery Authority. I saw Congress write one big check and then skip town.

We're all tired of a Washington that has these partisan camps where nothing gets done.

There are disasters that happen - Hurricane Harvey came up, and you had people self-organizing through the community and getting in boats and driving around rescuing people coordinated ad hoc through this network. That's not a media function.