Carly Fiorina Quotes

For too long, Missouri has been run by career politicians, owned by corrupt consultants, high-paid lobbyists and special interests.

There is a permanent political class.

Too many terms corrupts politicians so they only want to be reelected.

Sen. Obama comes from the old Chicago machine politics and has never taken on the special interests in his party on a major issue ever.

People like Elizabeth Dole have given too much power to the special interests.

Both major political parties have long since been seized by the same powerful group of manipulators.

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

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

If you look at Washington right now, we do not have a system that the Founding Fathers envisioned, where people go to Washington and be part of the servant class. Instead, we have a permanent political class that fashions itself the rulers of the people.

The establishment, rigged, cozy system inside the beltway is not America.

People have decided that career politicians may be part of the problem, not part of the solution.

I actually never thought that Barack Obama was anything but a typical Democratic party politician, which to me meant that he was probably in bed with Wall Street.

The problem is we have a Wall Street-to-Washington access of power that has controlled the political climate. The donor class feeds the political class who does the dance that the donor class wants. And the result is federal government keeps getting bigger.

Please don't begin to believe that the American political establishment is anything but a corrupt puppet of oligarchy.

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

Big money is ruining the political system.

In politics there are very few self-made men—most are machine-made.

He [Richard Nixon] is still the handmaiden of big business as he always has been.

Mr. Bush has eliminated the middle man and simply allowed lobbyists to run our government.

Members of Congress don’t want anyone to have more influence than they have—that’s why they hated Harry Hopkins.

A ruling class has emerged. We no longer have government of, by and for the people but rather by professional legislators.

The bosses of the Democratic party and the bosses of the Republican party alike have a closer grip than ever before on the party machines in the States and in the Nation. This crooked control of both the old parties by the beneficiaries of political and business privilege renders it hopeless to expect any far-reaching and fundamental service from either.

Today’s cabinet members are yesterday’s board members … I am running for President to eliminate this kind of crony capitalism.

Washington has become a permanent feudal class of insiders …those are people who are formally in office, staffers, journalists, hangers on … that becomes self-perpetuating … a Congress in which 42 percent become lobbyists… You have people coming here with no intention of going back to the farm.

Today’s expensive election campaigns are entrenching a culture of patronage [in Indonesia].