Jimmy Carter Quotes

A lot of what you have seen with third-party groups - like the Tea Party - these folks are conservative, and they are fed up with people in Washington who are not working for them but against them.

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

Like most thoughtful people who watch what's going on in Washington, venting is very necessary.

Populism has had as many incarnations as it has had provocations, but its constant ingredient has been resentment, and hence whininess. Populism does not wax in tranquil times; it is a cathartic response to serious problems. But it always wanes because it never seems serious as a solution.

Voters seem to understand what a big waste of time trying to change Washington is.

But I think the - what the tea party movement demonstrates, and I think the, the, the enthusiasm that we're seeing from independents and Republicans, is that if Washington isn't going to change itself, then we're going to change Washington. And I think that's what we're seeing.

I went through two pretty dark years being fed up with the system and frustrated with my own party after two disastrous elections in 2006 and 2008.

I quit politics because I hated it.

The pure unadulterated disgust of Washington seems to me to be a really good thing.

I mean, it's pretty disillusioning for all of us right now, and we feel pretty helpless when Congress, their approval rating is thirteen percent, and across the board, whether you're a Democrat or a Republican, you sort of want to walk in and fire everybody.

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

I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments …

People are gravitating towards Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders because they are doing their own thing. I think people are trying to cut out the middle man and just get to the source and get away from Washington politics.

The similarities are limited but real. They amount to a shared disgust with politics as usual in America. The Tea Party focuses on the federal government; Occupy Wall Street focuses on corporate America and its influence over the government.

I think people vote Ukip from a frustration with politics, which is legitimate, and which politicians have to listen to.

I'm out of the Republican Party. I'm fed up.

People are very upset with Washington. They're upset with Democrats. They're upset with Republicans. They're upset with the establishment.

I think people get so frustrated with Washington, D.C.That's why they're so angry with the - the electorate is so angry with everybody who is involved in government in Washington, D.C. Because if you listen to the folks up here [ on debate], you think that they weren't even there; they had nothing to do with this.

I think my exact comment was that if Bush won it would be a good time to leave the United States. I'm not necessarily going to leave the United States.

The Blair government has lowered the standing of politics and politicians in our country.

I think when you've lost an election by 179, there's going to be a period of time after eighteen years in government when you can't do anything right, and people just kick you for the sake of it, will never admit they voted Conservative.

Don't vote for a Democrat or Republican, I have never voted for one in my life and I never will.

The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.

Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?

I'm not involved in politics any more and they're quite right.