Robert H. Jackson Quotes

We have all seen Washington politicians fail us.

If the Congress fails then American democracy is dysfunctional.

Congress never loses its capacity to disappoint you.

I think there is a break down of trust generally, between people and politicians. I think that's come about for a whole variety of reasons.

Whatever your issue, your cause, the festering problem you thought would be resolved - the political class has failed you.

The American House of Representatives today is a complete travesty upon representative government, upon popular government, and upon government by the majority.

I think there are really serious problems in this country and I think politics in a lot of ways is failing the country.

We just don’t know what a democracy looks like when you drain all the trust out of the system.

The failure of the White House and Congress to seriously address the nation's fiscal situation is certain to broaden the belief among many voters that the U.S. political system is broken.

The political class has failed you.

Politics is broken.

We’d have to hide the money for this little old Civil Rights Section under another name or it would never get out of the [Congressional] Committee.

Politics, as a body, has failed the people.

It is bad enough that North Carolina should have the only nigger Congressman. It is sufficiently humiliating to the white people of the Second district; a sad enough commentary upon the political conditions that have obtained in this State

Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows.

We aren't living the gospel of democracy and free enterprise today. We are merely preaching it. We have made only half of the combination work, and we've done that superlatively well. Free enterprise booms. But democracy staggers and reels under oppressive debts and inordinate operating costs-both the consequences of political failure.

The system of government in Pakistan doesn't work. It's corrupt, and the people are tired of it.

Democracy has generally failed in Africa because to much power, too often, was concentrated in the hands of too few.

Both sides are so corrupt in Haiti that it doesn’t matter which one wins.

Our democracy has been going for over 235 years and it has not always been as dysfunctional as it is today.

Washington is broken but America still works.

The Republican Party stinks because all of the Republicans have accomplished nothing, and they talk about all of these issues and do nothing about it for a whole lifetime.

The middle ground in Congress has all but disappeared. The founders intended competing principles and interests to check excesses and create a balance in our politics that would benefit 'we the people.' Gerrymandered districts and a hyped-up fight-night media offer a partial explanation of why we seem to have neither checks nor balances.

The State of Alabama let me down tremendously.

Our political system has been bankrupted by the failures of Congress to act in ways that give meaning to the struggles our constituents endure.