Eugene McCarthy Quotes

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

Politics these days is a disgusting game of mudslinging, filled with selfish people with selfish aims.

I get the feeling a lot of politicians are there to help themselves financially, first and foremost.

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Congressmen have their noses right in the trough and they're slurping it up for their districts at the expense of all the taxpayers.

The rules are written in Washington DC by members of Congress so as to benefit themselves.

They could care less about the public. The public comes in third. Number one is keeping their power. Number two are the special interests, the people footing the bill. Finally, the public good might be third — if they can profit from it. If there's no profit, they could care less.

I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to.

Politics and self-interest have been so uniformly connected, that the world, from being so often deceived, has a right to be suspicious of public characters.

There's so many politicians who have given politics a pretty poor name... their actions have been demonstrated to be part of their over-enthusiasm to get reelected.

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

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 rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.

Washington's a cesspool of money.

The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.

When you start attacking cronyism and people's political interests, it gets nasty.

He [Donald Trump] buys and sells politicians of all stripes.

People in Washington do things that they shouldn’t do because they owe somebody.

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

The theory is that election to Congress is tantamount to being dispatched to Washington on a looting raid for the enrichment of your state or district, and no other ethic need inhibit the feeding frenzy.

Under every stone lurks a politician

Bull permeates everything.... American people think politics and politicians are full of baloney.

In Washington's political history a good many sow's ears have been turned into silk purses.

Washington is a pool of money surrounded by people who want some.