Jake Tapper Quotes

There's really a fundamental political corruption problem that put Washington completely out of touch with the people.

After 24 years in Washington, Senator Collins has become part of that broken system, putting special interests and her political party first. And Mainers know it and feel it.

Washington's a cesspool of money.

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?'

Voters definitely believe Washington is corrupt - but most think it's bipartisan.

The special interests are protected in Washington and the public interest is submerged.

… lobbyist-larded Washington

Many Americans have sensed there is a very corrupt pay-to-play system going on in Washington.

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

I understand firsthand that Washington is broken.

Hillary Clinton embodies the corruption of Washington.

Wall Street's outsized influence in our nation's capital is something I've talked about for a long time - long before I even thought about running for office. But where I see a problem - an infestation, really - a lot of others in Washington, both Democrats and Republicans, seem to see government working just fine.

Sadly we have government of the lobbyists, by the lobbyists, and for the lobbyists. That is no way to run the Senate.

[Lobbying] has reached such a position of power that it threatens the government itself. Its size, its power, its capacity for evil; its greed, trickery, deception and fraud condemn it to the death it deserves.

Politics is broken.

Clinton talks reform, but it's business as usual in Washington with different pigs at the trough.

The lobbyists have erected a brick wall around Washington DC—a wall that keeps them in and keeps you out.

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.

The only accountability-free zone in America: Washington DC.

In Washington, every closet has a revolving door.

The use of such means and such agents [paid lobbyists] will have the effect to subject the State governments to the combined capital of wealthy corporations, and produce universal corruption, commencing with the representative and ending with the elector. Speculators in legislation, public and private, a compact corps of venal solicitors, vending their secret influences, will infest the capital of the Union and of every State, till corruption shall become the normal condition of the body politic.

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

The career politicians down in Washington don't want to be held accountable.

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

Republicans, Democrats, libertarians, and independents all agree on only one thing - our national politicians are bought.