Rodney Alexander Quotes

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.'

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

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.

Americans are sick and tired of political gamesmanship.

I do hope that next year Republicans and Democrats will do nothing.

There's a can't-do attitude in this town [Washington DC] that I haven't seen anywhere else ... It's like running through a field of marshmallows in terms of getting anything done.

Our political system is losing its ability to even explore alternatives …. I hope we will demand judgment from our leaders.

I have been in Washington for 22 years and have seen us kick the can down the road. Well there is no more road to kick the can down.

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

Congress seems to be very good at doing nothing.

Politicians can talk and talk and talk until they're silly, and they do nothing.

Americans from all walks of life have voiced their deep frustration with Washington's seeming inability to get anything constructive done. For decades, they have watched politicians talk a good game while failing to deliver.

America can't go sideways anymore.

In this ridiculously polarized, obstructionist world, the operating principle should be, Let's get something done. Not, Let's freeze everything.

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

In America, the political system just is paralyzed for whatever reason. Maybe I'm right, maybe I'm wrong, in that it's just become this giant blob bureaucracy, the primary objective is self-preservation, and the definition of self-preservation is don't do anything because then you continue to illustrate where you're needed.

If things are not working out, they just stop going forward.

The reason so many problems do not get solved in Washington is that solving those problems is not the No. 1 priority: Re-election is.

I am a very optimistic man and only an optimistic man can bring optimism in the country.

Paralysis of leadership is due in part to the unseen grip of the special interests.

The American people are tired. They're tired of the bickering in Washington, D.C., and the lack of action.

How stagnant and tepid the whole British political scene is now is just beyond belief.

I kind of know what my job is, it's to develop a message that's hopeful and optimistic about the future of the country, to develop ideas that will give people a sense that they can lift up, and to tell them about my leadership skills to make it so.

We had a choice between Democrats who couldn't learn from the past and Republicans who couldn't stop living in it.

You know with Obama being elected, we had a wonderful opportunity. I hope it's not blown, and we have forms of government that don't seem to be up to the level of the leaders who are around who will want to move this country in a proper direction. Where that goes and how that goes, I mean, we seem determined to not move ahead, to stay in the same place. And there are a lot of nuts out there as well.