Roy Blunt Quotes

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

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

The Senate can’t agree to cross the street.

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

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

Talking heads will chatter, argue, and rant on TV and in the houses of Congress but that's all they will do. Weeks and months will go by in which the crowning achievement of Congress may be little more than perhaps passing a bill to declare National Eat Your Spinach Week (sponsored, of course, by the Spinach Growers of America).

If you're not comfortable with delay, frustration and impatience, get out of the Senate. It's the nature of the institution, but I think we've taken it to an art form.

One of the reasons Americans hold Washington in such low regard is the perception that nothing ever gets done. Whatever the issue - no matter how urgent - they always seem to be 'working on it.'

I think that what is truly unfortunate is when an entire party makes a decision that they're going to block every single thing that a president wants to accomplish. It's very - it's very hard to get anything done in those circumstances.

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

Why is it so hard for the Congress to do something for the public?

In the United States Senate we have to break the culture of procrastination.

Watching Congress is like being in permanent divorce court

In this political climate, there is no possibility of passing anything comprehensive.

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

The polarization of American politics is the proximate cause of the ongoing budget deficit…. Lately, the ideological center in Congress has thinned, and the distance between the parties has widened. Compromise has come to be seen as surrender—and the U. S. Government has all but come to a halt.

In Congress, if you simply wait out the passion, you can get back to gridlock.

If I live my life thinking that something might not pass the Senate, I would never even get up and bother to go to work.

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

There's no question that a Democratic Congress plus a Trump presidency would equal gridlock. Nothing moves, nothing changes, nothing gets accomplished, nothing gets reformed. Voters know this.

Congress seems to be very good at doing nothing.

Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.

Congress is dysfunctional.

We've had a tone-deaf White House that does not want to be reasonable. President Obama won't meet with the Republicans. It's all his way.

You can see how dysfunctional this Congress is.