Joni Ernst Quotes

I don't think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.

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

I want to go to Washington and clean up Kay Hagan's mess.

What is true is that if we do not change the culture of Washington, D.C., the United States of America will cease.

I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.

Change very often comes to Washington, not from Washington.

I understand firsthand that Washington is broken.

I'm not affiliated with Ed Burke, Joe Berrios or anyone else who represents the old, corrupt Chicago way. I am offering voters a complete break from that past and pushing us forward in a way that brings people together and makes government more inclusive.

I want to help Donald Trump drain the swamp back in Washington.

As a newcomer to politics, I knew in my bones that we as a country were better than what we see coming out of Washington. And we are.

I'm trying to avail myself of the various technologies to get the message that Washington needs to be cleaned up, that the system that's in place is not what's beneficial in the country.

One thing I have frankly decided is that when it comes to political reform we have two conservative parties in British politics. Both the Labour and Conservative parties have constantly and repeatedly failed to honour promises they have made about reforming, cleaning, modernising our clapped-out system.

I hear from everybody, and they say 'Joe, nowhere but in Washington do they think not working together makes sense.' We're not hired to fight.

I think the record shows that as Speaker, I have taken the lead in cleaning up politics.

I don't think we've asked the right questions, the tough questions, at the right time, in Washington.

Everywhere I go - from Main Street to Wall Street - people ask, 'What's happened to our political system? Why can't Washington folks work together?'

It's time to replace career politicians with citizen's politicians. It's time to elect people who are going to stand up to the Washington elite and stand up to a White House and Congress hell-bent on ramming socialism down our throat.

I've lived in Washington now for 44 years, and that's a lot of folly to witness up close. Whatever confidence and optimism I felt towards the central government when I got here on January 1, 1970 has pretty much dissipated at the hands of the government.

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.

I’m going to take Tennessee ideas to Washington and make them work for the country.

I'm doing a good job in Washington.

My whole deal is reforming, changing, shaking up Washington. It sure needs it.

The career politicians down in Washington don't want to be held accountable.

I think anyone who serves in public office should have a little bit of contempt for government in their heart.

I had this perception based on my own frustrations with Washington, but I didn't realize until I launched this campaign how much people are looking for a new generation of leadership and a new approach in Washington.