Tom Freedman Quotes

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.

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.

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

We need less bipartisanship in Congress.

Washington is broken but America still works.

I've had a growing conviction that Congress is not operating as it should. There is much too much partisanship and not enough progress.

With Washington already broken, the last thing we need is a left-wing version of the Tea Party.

Politicians in Washington are useless.

In typical Washington fashion, nothing gets reformed until a disaster happens.

Congress is unable to do the work of the American people because too many politicians believe that compromise means capitulation.

Washington has, with some justification, gained a reputation for being hopelessly mired in partisan gridlock.

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.

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.

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

I cannot allow state government to continue to be consumed by this game of political 'gotcha.'

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?'

Congress may not get the Internet, but the Internet doesn't get Congress, either.

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.

Did you ever wonder who when our problems are getting larger and larger, out politicians are getting smaller and smaller?

Common sense is not all that common in Washington DC.

It’s popular in Congress to vote for simplistic solutions to complex problems.

Campaigns are partisan. Governing should not be partisan.

Congress, too, has changed in our time. There has grown a certain divisiveness. We have seen the hard looks and heard the statements in which not each other's ideas are challenged, but each other's motives. And our great parties have too often been far apart and untrusting of each other.

Getting the U. S. Government to do anything is like herding ducks with a broom.