MJ Hegar Quotes

When I get to Washington, the people of Florida are going to know I'm not going to spend my first year having fundraisers to pay off a campaign debt.

Really, running an underdog, insurgent political campaign against an opponent many folks think can't be beat, and going out and meeting folks and talking about your ideas for America and Washington, is a lot of fun and a real privilege.

Hillary Clinton embodies the corruption of Washington.

We should show Washington how we do it in North Dakota. I'm running to stop the over-regulating of our economy and start growing it.

Sometimes we pay too much attention in Washington to public relations, as opposed to the substance.

I'm not a Washington person.

I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain, common working men.

The establishment of Washington is utterly corrupt and is incapable of governing.

If Democrats in Washington haven't got enough sense to own the issue of political reform, I give up on them entirely.

I look out the window in the morning sometimes, and the sun is rising, and the people are going to work. I look at Washington as being that big, sleeping giant, just stretching and waking up, and going about its business. And to know that I'm working in the capital of the most powerful nation in the world - I feel good about that.

We need to get big money out of Washington.

There are two Americas: Washington and the rest of us.

All I can do is pay attention, listen to what people in Minnesota are saying and do everything I can to bring that voice to Washington.

I am not too interested in leaving the street people and joining the Establishment. I prefer street folks.

Washington Is kind of dead. It's a nice place, but It's not like New York.

It sure would be nice to have a Washington that was there for us, but most help has always been local and regional.

I go to a lot of events morning, noon and night when I'm not in Washington.

There is a narrative of 'Washington fighting' because it's interesting and it's drama.

Covering Capitol Hill was my first assignment in political journalism, and I still think it is the best beat in Washington.

The people of Montana want to send me to Washington - not to bring home the bacon but to slaughter the hog.

I like living in Washington.

We need more leaders in Washington who will do more with less - and that's how we engineer real change.

It's not empirically wrong to say that Washington isn't working for the American people and Washington does too many things for powerful special interests and it's broken.

Bringing accountability to Washington has been an important part of my time in office and an important part of my campaign.

When we stop running up huge budget deficits and start acting responsibly in Washington, we will provide small-business owners with the certainty they need to put Americans back to work.