Matt Bevin Quotes

One of the reasons people feel so alienated from the American political process is in the fights we get in here in Washington, no one's ever talking about them and the challenges they're going through.

After 24 years in Washington, Senator Collins has become part of that broken system, putting special interests and her political party first. And Mainers know it and feel it.

Politicians in Washington are useless.

People hate politicians. And I can understand why.

The people of Alabama are fed up. They are tired of politicians who lie to them, and they are sick of elected officials who've been in Washington so long they've forgotten why they ran in the first place.

President Obama and Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi represent what mainstream America is rejecting about Washington, D.C. And that is this out of touch with the people.

If career politicians had the solutions, we wouldn't be in the mess that we are.

It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

The political class has failed you.

Politics, as a body, has failed the people.

To me the political game did not at all seem to answer the needs of the time.

Washington has become such a mercenary culture that there is no real political culture left. The defining exchange is money, not ideas, not problem-solving. We live in a democracy of money and images.

A politician is an arse upon which every one has sat except a man.

America is in trouble today not because her people have failed, but because her leaders have failed

Frankly, I'm fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us about family values. Our families have values. But our government doesn’t.

Politicians are so... detested; they don't actually walk amongst people now.

I understand firsthand that Washington is broken.

We do have our challenges. Some things don't always work right in Washington, and the anger you see from the electorate, I think, is a reflection of what's not working right.

Chicago is the largest city in the country without mayoral term limits. This has led to entrenched leaders, a lack of new ideas and creative thinking and a city government that works for the few, not the many.

I'm focused on bringing real change to Washington because the career politicians have screwed things up so badly.

I thought I was going to go into politics, but that became disheartening. You see that a lot of stuff doesn't get done, people walk around all self-important, and it's just depressing.

Some politicians are in so long they completely lose touch with reality.