Quotes About Politics

I had a 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' experience as governor.

If you look - look at - I mean, look at what's going on with your gasoline prices. They're going to go to $5, $6, $7 and we don't have anybody in Washington that calls OPEC and says, 'Fellas, it's time. It's over. You're not going to do it anymore.'

Washington is unpredictable these days.

If Washington continues to fumble issues like taking care of the debt, getting the troops home, and rebuilding our economy, my wife and I may sit down and say, 'These are critical things and maybe we need to get back in the ball.'

Ohio's doing what it can do, but I wish they'd get their act together in Washington.

If Mr. Obama wants to get things done, he must recognize that in Washington only the president has the power to make the first big move.

If it takes talking about unpleasant truths to change Washington, then so be it.

I think in Washington, D.C., a lot of people are talking down about business.

I'm not going to take any special interest money or any PAC money... when I get to Washington I want to be the voice for the people of Connecticut and not owe special favors.

And I'm here to tell you, the reaction that I'm getting around the country, people are sick and tired of this word in Washington, compromise. This is why nothing ever gets done.

In every thriller written about Washington, particularly after 9/11, there are good guys and there are bad guys, and there's no gray area at all.

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.

I think, first of all, you know, Washington has a bad habit of a very short attention span.

People need to understand that in Washington, the process is the punishment.

I love Arizona. I was raised right. Somebody has to go to Washington and knock the hell out of the place.

The president we have today is a typical Washington politician that's prone to hyperbole and decisiveness and false outrage. And I think it's very sad - very sad to watch.

The Republicans I know or the conservatives I know, they disagree with what the Republicans are doing in Washington because we are compromising too much.

It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that foundation.

Sometimes we pay too much attention in Washington to public relations, as opposed to the substance.

People are fed up with the career politicians who created this mess or failed to prevent it and neither was acceptable, and the only way we could change that was by sending a different type of person to Washington.

I don't have the support inside Washington or even inside my own party.

There's a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there's so much angst across the country.

I felt disconnected from the decisions made in Washington and, to be honest, really didn't think my vote mattered because I didn't have a direct line of sight from my vote to a result.

There is a battle to be waged over what kind of country we are going to leave our children and grandchildren and that battle is happening now in Washington, not two years from now.