Jesse Ventura Quotes

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Both Republicans and Democrats are corrupt. The motto of the Democratic Party is, "Anything to get in." The motto of the Republican Party is "Anything to stay in.

The only time the Democrats and the Republicans are together is when they are voting for their own pay raise.

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?'

The special interests drive both parties to their extremes.

Washington is corporate occupied territory …. The two parties are fighting it out to see who will take orders from their corporate paymasters.

The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.

All of our political parties are bought and paid for by corporate America, Wall Street, and the wealthy interests. The Republican Party more so, but the Democrats take their share of the loot, too.

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

The public good is being compromised in the conflicts between our rival political parties.

Our two-party system has served us well over the years, but never better than in those times of great challenge when we came together not as Democrats or Republicans, but as Americans united in a common cause.

Every thing in Congress revolves around the campaign—to hell with the country.

There isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between politicians of either major party.

One party is under the ironclad control of Wall Street and the other one caters to Wall Street.

We have witnessed for more than a quarter of a century the struggles of the two great political parties for power and plunder, while grievous wrongs have been inflicted upon the suffering people. We charge that the controlling influences dominating both these parties have permitted the existing dreadful conditions to develop without serious effort to prevent or restrain them.

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.

In America you've got a one party state except that you've got two of them.

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Talking to Republicans who aren't leaders - that's not very difficult both on anti-trust and on campaign finance reform. I think it's a lot more complicated when you talk to highly funded leaders - that's the innate, deeply problematic part of our politics.

Really, Donald Trump's entire message is that people like Sen. Blunt are the problem.

The Democratic and Republican parties, two apparently distinct political entities feeding at the same corporate trough.

Heaven's sakes, there's only one party which I call the Property Party. It's got two wings. One is called the "Republican" and one is called "Democratic." It is the same party so it makes no difference whether a Democrat's elected or a Republican's elected. The ownership remains the same.

If career politicians had the solutions, we wouldn't be in the mess that we are.

America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.

One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the Democrats, let's all be friends in Washington philosophy.