Jon Ossoff Quotes

I hate to tell you, but it's not always pretty up there on Capitol Hill

Show me a supposedly 'unfixable' problem in Washington, and I'll show you the political corruption standing in the way.

In Washington, D.C., they don't do real work.

I understand firsthand that Washington is broken.

Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again it's the system - there are lots of nice, well-meaning people there. But it's a sleazy place. And politics is all about doing favors.

I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people.

I believe both parties are sending the wrong kind of people to Washington, D.C.

Honestly, the egos and the quest and thirst for power is very prevalent in Washington.

Washington can be a frustrating place.

I'm not consumed with political machinations.

We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland.

Politics makes me sick.

Congress is dysfunctional.

Politics is still the No. 1 sport in town and the scoreboard shows the U.S. attorney's office leading.

If Communism goes, I've still got the U.S. House of Representatives.

You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work.

Politics disgusts me.

Republicans say they don't believe in government. Sure they do. They believe in government to help themselves and their powerful friends.

Politics was just about as dirty in those days as it is now.

Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made.

Government runs by clout. That's how it runs, by clout.

Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts

I have never seen such lobbying before as we have had in the last few weeks and such crookedness and complicity among members [of congress].

Politics is a dirty business for a gentleman ...

I underestimated in this town, the degree to which politics trumps problem solving.