Quotes About Politics

I believe both parties are sending the wrong kind of people to Washington, D.C.

Challenging orthodoxy is a death sentence in Washington.

If we don't send people to Washington who, first of all, have done something more than talk for a living - which is what many politicians have done - nothing gets done.

My record proves that I don't make political or public-service decisions based on what typical folks in Washington do, which is, 'What's going to get me past the next election, or what's best for my career?'

Washington is too expensive.

Whether you're talking about Chris Christie, or you're talking about Rick Perry or Scott Walker or John Kasich, there's more interesting evolution at the state level than there is in Washington.

America pays its bills. It always has. It always will. The fact that Washington is now debating whether to honor its debts and obligations, then, should come as a surprise. But playing political football with a necessary vote to raise the nation's debt ceiling has become as predictable as a Twitter rant from Charlie Sheen.

Washington is not good at getting things done.

My priority always has and will continue to be the people of Staten Island and Brooklyn who sent me to Congress to represent them. Their interests come before Washington, always.

In the push and pull of Washington politics, Thom Tillis has decided there are things more important than representing North Carolina. He has put his own political interests, and serving the special interests, ahead of North Carolina's interests.

The president said that he would unite this country, that he was a uniter, not a divider. Have you ever seen America more divided? Have you ever seen Washington more divided?

As I prepare for this next phase in my life, I ask that people continue to offer the prayers that have protected me thus far. I also pray that I will always see those who are not seen and easy to forget in the hustle and bustle of Washington politics.

Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.

Only in Washington would death be considered a taxable event.

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

In Washington, there's always an effort to label people.

Washington is paralyzed by extreme political rhetoric that creates powerful sound bites but poor policy.

Well, I was always a bit of a political junkie. Even as a kid I would read biographies of presidents and of civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King and Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington.

Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.

The Democratic Party, all the candidates from Washington, they all know each other, they all move in the same circles, and what I'm doing is breaking into the country club.

Like it or not, the people of Arkansas sent me to Washington to represent them in this great body.

Two million dollars is only small when you're talking about Washington, D.C.

What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians.

This is my fourth term and my seventh year. My first year was in 1997, the same year for Vic Snyder. It is still exciting to be there even though Washington is not run by Democrats right now, but we are working very hard.