Paul Craig Roberts Quotes

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

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.

You can see how dysfunctional this Congress is.

President Bush said that he wanted to change the tone in Washington. He has; it has gotten worse.

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

Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.

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?'

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

I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.

There is a problem in Washington, and the problem is bigger than a continuing resolution. It is bigger than Obamacare. It is even bigger than the budget. The most fundamental problem and the frustration is that the men and women in Washington aren't listening.

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.

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

Washington is a complete mess. It's become a venue for partisan bickering, where the needs of the working class just don't matter.

Here's what I have to say: Obama is a disaster, and Washington politicians are worthless.

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

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

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.

There's a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there's so much angst across the country.

We've gotten to the point now where Republicans and Democrats have nothing in common besides being members of the 'caustic caucus,' and we can't get anything done.

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.

While Obama, the olive-branch poseur, has called for a restoration of 'civility' in Washington and liberal elites whine and whinny about the need for 'no labels,' class-warfare demagoguery has metastasized unchecked.

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!

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.