Mike Colter Quotes

Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.'

You hit those valleys sometimes and it's really frustrating. It's like getting stuck in traffic on the freeway. But there's not much you can do about it.

When the snake decided to go straight, he didn't get anywhere.

I thought we’d turned a corner. Maybe we did, but we hit a brick wall anyway.

Sometimes you'd come up against a brick wall... or sometimes you go into a fill and you'd know halfway through it was going to be disastrous.

When you remove the risk, you remove the challenge. When you remove the challenge, you wither on the vine.

A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.

There is still nothing on the proverbial scoreboard.

Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.

They have had three years to get a resolution and they failed. Both of these guys have failed.

It was lights, camera, inaction.

You either make dust or eat dust.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

Even if you're not going anywhere, don't get in the way.

If you keep looking backwards, you don't go anywhere.

Everything looks like a failure in the middle

In Washington it's much easier to stop something than make something happen.

Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still.

Suspicions too often block progress.

One step forward, two steps back ... It happens in the lives of individuals, and it happens in the history of nations and in the development of parties.

We've become so polarized we've become paralyzed.

The one thing I couldn't imagine is stopping still.

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.

It's impossible to always move forward, but sometimes even maintaining the status quo is enough.

America can't go sideways anymore.