Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

It comforted the great to deal with it and they knew, a man who could reduce any color to grey.

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.

The status quo sucks.

The status quo is simply unacceptable.

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