Bob Corker Quotes

My viewpoint is the Senate is dysfunctional.

Watching Congress is like being in permanent divorce court

Government is dysfunctional.

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.

Congress has been reformed so much that it can't get anything done.

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

The Republicans, specifically those of the House of Representatives, are responsible for undermining the confidence of the public that Government can help people.

The wheels of compromise lose traction as Congress sinks into an ooze of dysfunction.

I understand firsthand that Washington is broken.

What happens in the Senate is the Republicans sink to the lowest common denominator.

Congress is dysfunctional.

Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.

What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.

Things have gotten so nasty in Washington.

I think that what is truly unfortunate is when an entire party makes a decision that they're going to block every single thing that a president wants to accomplish. It's very - it's very hard to get anything done in those circumstances.

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?'

The Senate as an institution is broken. We're not doing the work of the American people and the rules are being abused. The only way to get us back to the traditions where the Senate is doing the work of the American people is to change the rules.

In Washington, compromise has become a dirty word.

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

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

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

To be honest, I haven't seen much serious budget planning since the Republicans took control of the House after the 2010 elections and grabbed onto the Senate filibuster. It's not the White House's fault that John Boehner couldn't deliver on a bigger deal.

Division and the death of hope. These are the results of Republican rule.

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.

I do not sympathize with the sentiment that Congress in session is dangerous to our general business interests.