Jim Cooper Quotes

McConnell's the Senate Republican leader, but he refuses to lead on defunding Obamacare. What good is a leader like that?

Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.

Congress doesn’t do comprehensive well.

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

There is no getting around it; Congress is failing the American people.

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

The Democrats in particular are do-nothing guys.

There are amendments never offered, there are bills never heard, that are basically killed because of the process.

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

Overall, Congress is dysfunctional, partisan, and polarized, and it isn’t getting anything done. We need commissions to break out of divisive partisanship.

Congress has the Constitutional responsibility to deal with the problem and Congress punted.

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

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

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

Congress seems to be very good at doing nothing.

Everybody hates Congress; even Congress hates Congress.

I think that our leadership, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner, are taking the right approach.

You can see how dysfunctional this Congress is.

The GOP doesn't seem particularly afraid of being perceived as blocking reform, despite efforts by the Obama White House to establish that narrative.

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.

Right now, there are nearly 30 jobs bills passed by the House with support from both Republicans and Democrats that are awaiting action in the Democratic-run Senate.

The myopic obsession of the Tea Party with destroying health care reform and wounding the president has led Republicans astray.

We've been sitting at the compromise table for a long time. We're just waiting for that cold chair to be warmed up by the Republican leadership. They still have time to do the right thing and be responsible. They just seem to be moving further and further away from it.

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.

Unfortunately, the Republican leadership in the House right now seems to have been strangled by the tea party.