Gene Weingarten Quotes

I think a lot of the people who voted for Donald Trump were frustrated. And what they thought was, OK, government is broken. Therefore, we're going to send in this incendiary character. And he's just going to going to bust it all up, and we'll see what happens.

Many people voted for Trump just to say, you know, their 'no' to the system.

I see a lot of parallels between my candidacy and the Tea Party. I would not have been elected had there not been a tremendous amount of dissatisfaction and discouragement and disgust with what was going on in Washington.

I think people in America have had enough, and Donald Trump's the change agent.

I'm just telling you in my universe, people that I know who voted for Donald Trump and want the Trump agenda or most of it, I don't know anybody who is content for nothing to happen, status quo while the Republicans and Trump bicker. I don't know anybody who wants any more of this.

We're red, white and blue, and President Obama, we are through with you.

People are not in a good mood when any politician's face appears on television.

Americans are sick and tired of political gamesmanship.

It's a very angry electorate out there. I think Trump is tapping into that.

'I can't get no satisfaction,' in political terms, has haunted Hungarian politics for 20 years.

I don't think there Is a way politically to beat "Insurgent Movement Of Populism".

We're not enamored of Trump's braggadocio narcissism. We're not enamored of Trump's lifestyle. None of that. We're just fed up with current Washington leadership. It has failed and it needs to be turned upside down and emptied and re-shaken. And that's what the vast majority of Trump supporters actually believe.

I believe my friends and neighbors there are misguided. I think they are not going to get what they hoped for. But they feel betrayed by the Democratic and Republican establishment.

The American people are growing extremely unhappy with establishment politics, with establishment economics, and you know what else? Even with establishment media.

The American people - Republican voters especially - are fed up with the status quo.

I wouldn't call Trump supporters or Sanders supporters fanatical. One thing, I would say they're very discouraged with where things are. I don't think in either case they're fanatical.

The one thing I think we learned this year is that the Democrats and the Republicans are completely worthless.

I'm not calling for a boycott on voting. But I think it should be very clear that just voting is not going to solve our problems.

In most of the countries in the Muslim world today, most of them are autocratic regimes that are unpopular if not detested by their people. They need a scapegoat and for a long time the imperialist served that purpose.

I think part of the reason the Tea Party has resonated is that people feel disempowered. The Tea Party says, "You are out of power because of big government." Then some Democrats tend to respond by saying, "No, you're wrong, you're not out of power." It's a sense that doesn't resonate with people's lived experience.

It was not malaise we suffered from; it was Jimmy Carter - and Walter Mondale.

I think the country has had enough Bushes.

The people are fed up with the political class.

Many who have voted for the AfD, or who intend to do so, aren't doing so because they are dyed-in-the-wool enemies of democracy. Rather, they are desperate.

That's not saying there's not a bunch of good Democrats. I'm sure there's a lot of people who still haven't figured that out yet or simply don't want to have that pessimistic of an outlook, but I think the Democratic Party is completely worthless.