Ted Cruz Quotes

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

You can see how dysfunctional this Congress is.

This Congress is simply not doing its job under Republican leadership.

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

In the United States Senate we have to break the culture of procrastination.

Congress doesn’t do comprehensive well.

If you're not comfortable with delay, frustration and impatience, get out of the Senate. It's the nature of the institution, but I think we've taken it to an art form.

The Senate can’t agree to cross the street.

Congress is almost totally dysfunctional right now. All we've done this year and my first year in the Senate ... is barely keep the doors open.

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

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

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.

Congress seems to be very good at doing nothing.

There's a lot of good, bipartisan legislation that passes in committee and then gets bottled up. As a businessman, it surprised me.

You've heard me question whether the partisanship in Washington has made us, as a nation, ungovernable - and, indeed, Democrats are doing their very best to make sure of it.

Jon Tester's priorities are with the liberal, extreme minority of Democrats in the Senate unwilling to compromise. He does not have Montana's best interests in mind. He has failed to represent Montanans.

Redistricting and a broken, polarized Congress have made it tough to be a moderate in Congress.

Democrats believe they can win at the ballot box by obstructing, and they would rather win the next election than move America forward.

Many times, the Senate talks of things and never gets anything through.

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.

One difficulty in making the Senate work the way it was intended is that America's electorate is increasingly divided into red and blue states, with lawmakers representing just one color or the other.

The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right.

The Democrats in particular are do-nothing guys.

One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the Democrats, let's all be friends in Washington philosophy.