Eric Greitens Quotes

Our founders never intended us to have a professional political class.

People like Elizabeth Dole have given too much power to the special interests.

Too many terms corrupts politicians so they only want to be reelected.

There is a permanent political class.

Please don't begin to believe that the American political establishment is anything but a corrupt puppet of oligarchy.

Clinton talks reform, but it's business as usual in Washington with different pigs at the trough.

Mr. Bush has eliminated the middle man and simply allowed lobbyists to run our government.

The bosses of the Democratic party and the bosses of the Republican party alike have a closer grip than ever before on the party machines in the States and in the Nation. This crooked control of both the old parties by the beneficiaries of political and business privilege renders it hopeless to expect any far-reaching and fundamental service from either.

Sen. Obama comes from the old Chicago machine politics and has never taken on the special interests in his party on a major issue ever.

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

Chicago's been under the grip of the corrupt and broken political machine for as long as everybody's memory.

The establishment, rigged, cozy system inside the beltway is not America.

Politicians have been the primary hurdle to reforms, and corruption is the center of the problem.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Enough to using Texas as a political laboratory for testing far-right ideas. Enough to using Texas as a workshop for fattening the wallets of their special interest friends and supporters. And enough of politicians listening only to each other, rather than real Texans.

There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.

The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.

Politicians in this country have always been for sale. That is nothing new.

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

He [Donald Trump] buys and sells politicians of all stripes.

The hardest way to make a million dollars is to become a United States senator. Any vicious, impudent, brazen, shrewd, gifted person can think of an infinite number of better ways to become rich than to become a crooked politician.

In politics there are very few self-made men—most are machine-made.

The principal reasons that special interests can extract their price from government is money .... Those who do not accept money from PACs are those who have other sources.

Both major political parties have long since been seized by the same powerful group of manipulators.

Politicians can be bought and often are.