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Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.' -- William Safire
What we have in Washington is total gridlock. -- Jeb Bush
Our intent will not be to create gridlock. Oh, except maybe from time to time. -- Bob Dole
With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership. -- Ron Fournier
The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes of 2012. -- Steven Rattner
Unlike Washington, which is stuck in ideological gridlock, Americans feel the impact of climate change in their own hometowns and they know something must be done. -- John F. Kerry
It was announced that President Obama and his wife, when they're finished in Washington, are moving to New York City. The guy just can't get enough gridlock. -- David Letterman
Hardworking families can no longer afford to wait for a Congress that gridlocks on ideology. I look forward to working with my colleagues from both parties to get things done. -- Kyrsten Sinema
Romney and Democratic rival President Obama have led their partisan backers down a trail of lies, negativity and vacuous policies that seem certain to guarantee an angry electorate four more years of gridlock. -- Ron Fournier
Sometimes I get frustrated in traffic. I typically start going deep with my cab driver and Twitter feed - simultaneously - to take my mind off the gridlock. I enjoy live-tweeting my cab rides. -- Andy Cohen
The criminal justice system is accurately symbolized by a large sculpture that sits at the foot of the United States attorney's building: four metal circles that interlock. The wheels of justice, as it were, frozen in legal and social gridlock. -- Jonathan Larson
If you want gridlock in Washington,then I'm probably not your guy because I'm running a campaign to say I can fix these things because I did it as governor. I have 32 years of business experience and eight years as governor. -- Jeb Bush
Overpopulation in the United States will become THE single greatest issue facing Americans in the 21st century. We either solve it proactively or nature will solve it brutally for us via water shortages, energy crisis, air pollution, gridlock, species extinction and worse. -- Frosty Wooldridge
One of the weapons Marvel used in its climb to comic-book dominance was a willingness to invent new characters at a dizzying speed. There are so many Marvel universes, indeed, that some superheroes do not even exist in one another's worlds, preventing gridlock. -- Roger Ebert
To be a mass tourist, for me,...is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable as it is painful: As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome, an insect on a dead thing. -- David Foster Wallace
One of the reasons that the Senate was structured and founded the way it is, as opposed to the House, it was designed for gridlock. It was designed to stop massive new laws being passed and voted on daily. It was designed to stop the growth of government. -- Rush Limbaugh
The political disfunction that has brought about the shutdown and now threatens default, isn't so much gridlock. It is exposing the fatal flaw in our Constitution and highly distinct system of government. In other words, it's the Constitution's fault. Something truly catastrophic was bound to happen sooner or later. -- Chris Hayes
Of course, the genesis of a good portion of the gridlock in Congress does not reside in Congress itself. Ultimate reform will require each of us, as voters and Americans, to take a long look in the mirror, because in many ways, our representatives in Washington reflect the people who have sent them there. -- Evan Bayh
If you apply conservative principles and you stick with it, and you have the leadership skills to bring people toward the cause, you can move the needle on these things, i reject the notion that we can't solve problems, that the gridlock is too enormous to forge consensus. It requires some creativity to get to a win for everybody. -- Jeb Bush
You know, I think when you are unemployed, especially for a long time, it's hard to be inspired or hopeful almost about anything. So it's tough, especially when there has been such gridlock here in D.C. You know, when we are fighting and can't get anything done, whether you are liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican, no one wins. -- Peter Welch
I know that if we allow ourselves into the gridlock of tribalism, we're in trouble. -- Elizabeth Lesser
Washington has, with some justification, gained a reputation for being hopelessly mired in partisan gridlock. -- Ted Cruz
Less revenue, more people, more freight, more gridlock - that is not a formula for success. -- Anthony Foxx
Nothing beats weaving through the rush-hour traffic or whizzing past the eternal gridlock that is the Strand. -- Deborah Moggach
We had a lot of gridlock on a lot of issues. But, the American system is pretty resilient. -- Jamie Dimon
I hear people who are worried about climate change tell me, oh, Congress that's gridlock, that's not where the action is. -- Ralph Nader
Hillary Clinton's ready to pivot to Asia and provoke China. So are the Republicans. It's on domestic issues that there will be a gridlock. -- Ralph Nader
Developing an explicit decision-making process upfront for how you will make that decision will help alleviate conflict and gridlock when you actually need to decide. -- David Livermore
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. -- Mike Ross

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