Mike Gallagher Quotes

Unified party control of the organs of government has proved no panacea.

In the last years, the anti-government paradigm has led us into one blind alley after another.

Texans don't want to sit back and watch Austin turn into Washington, D.C. State leaders in power keep forcing people to opposite corners to prepare for a fight instead of coming together to get things done.

Aren't we at the point where the closer we get to chaos, the more concern that there should be about coming to the table and compromising with Democrats? This is not leadership. This is almost like dictatorship.

Common sense is not all that common in Washington DC.

We have moved toward a kind of scorpions-in-a-bottle Government where you have two branches [executive and legislative] that don't understand many of the legitimate needs of the other branch.

Washington D.C. has become a lunatic asylum.

Trump is a systemic stress test.

When national policy becomes hostage to regional interests, the federal government becomes paralysed and would be unable to act in the larger national interest.

People are tired of the politics of Donald Trump. l really do believe that.

People have said to me 'I hope you won't let happen in Washington what is happening in Kansas.'

There's very little reason in politics these days.

It's easy to keep issuing blame to Republicans or the president.

Growing up in Egypt, I never saw the country as divided as it is today. We now have two main political groupings: the Islamist parties and the civil, or liberal, political parties.

I mean, the country is deeply divided. There is 35 percent of the people who are Tea Partiers or more in some of those states. So it's probably going to be a difficult year, but there's nothing that I think anyone can do about it.

Today, I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily good politics, and the result is that it's much more partisan and much more divided.

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

I think most Americans don't really care about politicians bickering in Washington.

Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.

The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.

I believe both parties are sending the wrong kind of people to Washington, D.C.

The 2008 election settled nothing, not even for a while. Our national politics are reflecting what appears to be going on geologically, on the bottom of the oceans and beneath the crust of the Earth: the tectonic plates are moving.

It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election.

Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.

Macau has been steady. The shocking, unexpected government is the one in Washington.