143 Quotes About Status-quo

Is there a status quo in the house?

Nestor is the spokesman for the status quo, for the tradition-hallowed belief that institutional power equates with unquestioned authority.

Government breeds more government, and a lobbying infrastructure to defend itself.

An anti-politician is hardly an anti-politician once he starts winning and works to close the deal by working to sew up the Establishment.

Just because the question can be answered doesn't mean that anyone is obliged to answer it, or that it ought to be asked.

Like many others, she'd received a threat from the Riffraff - though she wasn't sure she understood it completely - accusing her of helping to maintain the status quo, and even profiting from it.

Decades of the seniority rule had conferred influence in the Senate not on men who broke new ground but on men who were careful not to.

How can you test whether something's an assumption? Try this: switch things around, and check how bananas everybody goes.

Congress has a deep, vested interest in its own inefficiency.