Ted Cruz Quotes

You can see how dysfunctional this Congress is.

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.

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.

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.'

Why is it so hard for the Congress to do something for the public?

Washington has become a place where good ideas come to die.

Has Washington become so dysfunctional that even when we all agree on something, we can’t get it done?

I'm tired of divided government. It doesn't work very well.

I'm not truly convinced solutions are coming out of Washington.

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

While I have worked hard to bring folks to the middle to craft common-sense solutions to the many problems that confront our nation, Washington is mired in gridlock, gamesmanship and constant partisan bickering.

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

In Washington, you have imaginary problems, and they can't even solve the imaginary problems.

Washington is broken.

It's no great secret, number one, in my view, and I think the view of most Americans, that Congress itself is pretty dysfunctional. We are not addressing the real needs of the American people. And second of all, philosophically, there is a huge division between the House and the Senate.

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

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

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

A concrete agenda and landslide victory might not even guarantee a president his mandate in a capital as polarized as Washington.

Things have gotten so nasty in Washington.

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

Common sense is not all that common in Washington DC.

Everyone in Washington knows what needs to be done. They just don’t do it because there’s always someone else they can blame.

Congress doesn’t do comprehensive well.

The crowd that is running Washington today has had 12 years and it failed