John Jay Chapman Quotes

Almost every special interest lobby was organized to prevent reform.

Give me a prejudice and I will move the world.

I was concerned about the link between crime and politics, and I figured out the only way I could do something about it was to get into politics.

There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.

Farmers who are legislators are the easiest to buy and seduce.

Social change can be painful for all involved—oppressor and oppressed.

You can reform a political culture, but it’s a big lift. First, the voters would have to convince the legislators that they’re being watched by someone other than the lobbyists. Then they’d have to press for laws that would force a change of behavior, like nonpartisan redistricting and ethics reform. Then the voters would have to follow up, year after year, until the old guard was replaced by a whole new generation who went into politics with dreams of drafting serious legislation, rather than just bringing more stuff back into the district or, at worst, shaking down some landlord at the airport for a thousand bucks.

I've seen anti-Semitism essentially disappear in my adult life as a social and economic factor. There may be some nuts out there, but generally things are fine. I think the same thing will happen with gayness. We'll get to a point soon enough where it's not even an issue anymore. But progress can be slow

The system seems to most people as rigged, and it is.

Donalt Trump has drained the swamp right into his Cabinet.

Does it seem like Washington's rigged for the well connected? That's because it is.

I'm not affiliated with Ed Burke, Joe Berrios or anyone else who represents the old, corrupt Chicago way. I am offering voters a complete break from that past and pushing us forward in a way that brings people together and makes government more inclusive.

'Reform' is a word you always aughta' watch out for. 'Reform' is a change that you're supposed to like. And watch it - As soon as you hear the word 'Reform', you should reach for your wallet and see who's lifting it.

The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience.

Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.

People are looking for a leader independent of powerful, wealthy special interests that always push to the front of the line.

American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.

With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.

There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

Social equity is based on justice; politics change on the opinion of the time. The black man's skin will be a mark of social inferiority so long as white men are conceited, ignorant, unjust, and prejudiced. You cannot legislate these qualities out of the white - you must steal them out by teaching, illustration, and example.

I have all my life fought against prejudice, having been subjected to it myself.

The walls are raised against honest men in civic life.

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

We must win the common people in every corner. This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open, hearty behaviour, show, condescention, popularity, and toleration of their prejudices, which we shall at leisure root out and dispel