Carl Bernstein Quotes

Congress is dysfunctional.

Government is dysfunctional.

It's a cliche that the Senate is broken, and like most cliches, it's true.

Congress actively undermines the best of legislative practice.

Congress has lost its capacity to manage itself.

We Americans are as great as we have ever been. But our government is broken.

I understand firsthand that Washington is broken.

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

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.

If career politicians had the solutions, we wouldn't be in the mess that we are.

In the year of our Lord 2010, the voters of the United States elected the worst Congress in the history of the Republic. There have been Congresses more dilatory. There have been Congresses more irresponsible, though not many of them.

Republicans and Democrats can barely do what they're supposed to do, and they sure can't do math!

I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.

My viewpoint is the Senate is dysfunctional.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

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

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

I think it's a time to be sad about what's been done to the United States Senate, the greatest deliberative body in the world.

I've had a growing conviction that Congress is not operating as it should. There is much too much partisanship and not enough progress.

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

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

Washington is broken.

The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.

Given the slow pace of Washington's bureaucracy, policymakers are often busy solving yesterday's problems. This rearview mirror approach afflicts Mr. Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress.

We have a paralysis in Washington that's not serving our country. We have to address these issues.