David Brinkley Quotes

My viewpoint is the Senate is dysfunctional.

Our Congress should stay in session all summer - camp out in D.C., and turn off the AC. Put on their stuffiest powdered wigs and sweat it out, until they give in and put their John Hancocks (and their Nancy Pelosis and their John Boehners) on at least one meaningful law that no one wants to repeal.

You can see how dysfunctional this Congress is.

And I'm here to tell you, the reaction that I'm getting around the country, people are sick and tired of this word in Washington, compromise. This is why nothing ever gets done.

There are amendments never offered, there are bills never heard, that are basically killed because of the process.

I do not sympathize with the sentiment that Congress in session is dangerous to our general business interests.

Overall, Congress is dysfunctional, partisan, and polarized, and it isn’t getting anything done. We need commissions to break out of divisive partisanship.

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

There are times where the dysfunction in the Senate just goes too far.

We need Congress to do more than just engage in partisan games.

There's a lot of good, bipartisan legislation that passes in committee and then gets bottled up. As a businessman, it surprised me.

President Barack Obama has it right - there is a lot to change about Washington. The problem is, not much will get changed unless we confront the runaway filibuster in the U.S. Senate.

It seems as though there are Members in this body who want to filibuster just about everything we try to do, whether it is stopping judicial nominations, the Energy bill, or this Medicare bill.

Congress doesn’t do comprehensive well.

Has Washington become so dysfunctional that even when we all agree on something, we can’t get it done?

You used to get legislation done by getting the moderates to agree. But we have no moderates now so it doesn’t get done

Congress actively undermines the best of legislative practice.

In our political system it’s easier to block action than to act.

Congress has lost its capacity to manage itself.

Washington is not the problem; the Congress is the problem.

The Republicans, specifically those of the House of Representatives, are responsible for undermining the confidence of the public that Government can help people.

The wheels of compromise lose traction as Congress sinks into an ooze of dysfunction.

I'm tired of divided government. It doesn't work very well.

Congress is more broken than ever. Congressman Will Hurd has quickly become part of the problem.

Congress seems to be very good at doing nothing.