Ernie Fletcher Quotes

Americans are sick and tired of political gamesmanship.

Americans have grown impatient with the relentless politicizing of every area of life.

While 2013 will not see a major national election, we can be sure that most Republicans will obstruct and some Democrats will appease.

The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.

Once politics become a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie, decent government is impossible.

The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues of the day are not being addressed, leaving our future in jeopardy.

It's counterintuitive, but the most divisive arrangement is when the same party controls both Congress and the presidency, a situation encountered in eight of the past 10 years. With government unified under a single party, the minority has the least possible incentive to cooperate with the majority.

Everywhere I go - from Main Street to Wall Street - people ask, 'What's happened to our political system? Why can't Washington folks work together?'

While Obama, the olive-branch poseur, has called for a restoration of 'civility' in Washington and liberal elites whine and whinny about the need for 'no labels,' class-warfare demagoguery has metastasized unchecked.

I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Congress may not get the Internet, but the Internet doesn't get Congress, either.

Democrats' attack on the Republican majority leader is nothing but a coordinated agenda to stop an effective leader from accomplishing the people's business.

While Washington's establishment ... is whipped into motion by the mere whiff of an emotional issue or scandal, there is no reward in today's Capitol for fixing the broken mechanics of government or solving the huge problems that haunt us.

Everyone in Washington knows what needs to be done. They just don’t do it because there’s always someone else they can blame.

The people are fed up with politics and partisanship.

We need less bipartisanship in Congress.

As a United States Senator, I am not proud of the way in which the Senate has been made a publicity platform for irresponsible sensationalism.

Now it’s just sharp elbows, and instead of having a caucus where you sit down and say, ‘What are you doing for your country?’ you sit figuring out how to screw the other side.

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

Staying in Likud means wasting time in political squabbles rather than acting on behalf of the good of the country.

The people in Iowa know that Washington isn't working. It's devolved into partisan politics and a lot of gridlock and obstruction.

Unfortunately, our country has become so politically polarized that one side routinely attempts to destroy and discredit the other.

The game of political music chairs and finger-pointing by career politicians and agency bureaucrats needs to end.

I hate it when Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi get to beat their drums and talk about what a great day it is for America that President Trump failed - when even they know ObamaCare is a total disaster.

Anyone concerned with the broken politics in Washington needs to look no further than Mitch McConnell's cynical manipulation of the rules and obstruction of the NLRB.