Mark Barrowcliffe Quotes

I love my homeland, but it's an absurd country. Politics in the Philippines is like spectator sports!

What makes this harder is that it is my party that is ruining the country.

America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.

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?'

It's always in the second administration when things start to go sour. They circle the wagons.

Brazil has a lot of issues that are similar to a lot of countries in Latin America, but the dominant issue Brazil is dealing with is poverty and political corruption.

The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.

People know something has gone terribly wrong with our government and it has gotten so far off track. But people also know that there is nothing wrong in America that a good old-fashioned election can't fix.

I think that the economy, and the political system, has literally become such a disaster I don't know if it's possible to save it.

I can personally testify that American politics have taken a distinctly downward turn in the space of one mature lifetime.

I can’t stand it anymore. I can’t stand what’s happening to this country.

I view the traditional two parties as in some ways very evil. They've become monsters that are out of control. The two parties don't have in mind what's best for Minnesota. The only things that are important to them are their own agendas and their pork. Government's become just a battle of power between the two parties.

We live in times of wonderful technology and crappy politics. The task before us now is not to let the latter destroy the former.

You turn on the TV, and you hear all these guys: 'Republican Party in disarray. Turmoil in Washington.' I don't think that's the case.

If bad and inexperienced politicians control power in Nigeria, my wealth may turn into poverty, and I am not ready to become a poor man.

I'm focused on bringing real change to Washington because the career politicians have screwed things up so badly.

Donald Trump got elected because, in his twisted way, he pointed out the huge troubles in our economy and our democracy.

I'm obsessed with the mess that's America.

I think we have such a political cesspool in America right now.

I thought I was going to go into politics, but that became disheartening. You see that a lot of stuff doesn't get done, people walk around all self-important, and it's just depressing.

Since when is politics consistent?

Donald Trump is many things - a tantrum-throwing man-child and a wannabe strongman pining for his very own banana republic among them - but perhaps most of all he is a giant, melon-colored distraction from what is happening to our country under his watch.

The two candidates have very different visions of America. Donald Trump's is very dark: Things are not going well. There are dark days ahead unless you make a change, and he's the one to fix it.

These are strange times. I'm 37 and this is the weirdest the world's ever felt. There's a right-wing, nationalistic anger sweeping through Europe and America.

I think the two-party system isn't working for us. And it hasn't worked for us for generations - let's be very, very honest about that.