Shirley Chisholm Quotes

... elections are no longer representative.

We don't need to allow any more Nancy Pelosies to wind up in Congress.

In my experience, only third-rate intelligence is sent to Legislatures to make laws, because the first-rate article will not leave important private interests go unwatched to go and serve the public for a beggarly four or five dollars a day, and a miserably trivial distinction

We only have politicians who are concerned with being reelected.

I just think people are fed up with people who are career politicians who don't stand for anything.

What matters is that the majority of American people have become complacent in a senseless injustice that occurs all around them. What matters is that most American politicians have become more easily swayed by money than by the people who voted them into office.

Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It's just plain wrong.

Who is in charge? Is it taxpayers or is it the special interest groups?

If career politicians had the solutions, we wouldn't be in the mess that we are.

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Are my politics Democrat or Republican? I think both are horrific. And it doesn't matter anyway. Money runs America; money runs everywhere.

I'm disappointed that Senator DeWine once again chose to go along with his party leaders and their big corporate lobbyist supporters. Ohio deserves a Senator who will be more than a rubber stamp.

I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.

Its easy to view politicians as corrupt and voting essentially an act of picking the lesser of two evils. I understand that perspective and feel it's valid.

I believe both parties are sending the wrong kind of people to Washington, D.C.

I know the activists I deal with, we sort of try and check each other to make sure that we haven't gone native, that you come to Washington thinking it's a cesspool, you don't want to end up thinking it's really a hot tub and getting used to it. So that's something one has to keep an eye on all the time.

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

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

When I have to choose between voting for the people or voting for the special interests, I always stick with the special interests. They remember. The people forget.

Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country-and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.

In much of the democratic world, citizens lack any confidence that politicians, political parties, or government officials are serving anyone other than themselves.

First they gerrymander us into one-party fiefs. Then they tell us they only care about the swing districts. Then they complain about voter apathy

If you’ve ever been in politics, I don’t want to vote for you.

It is necessary to have lived in this insulator which is called the national assembly, in order to perceive how the men who are the most completely ignorant of the state of the country are almost always the ones who represent it.

I think all politicians have gotten out of touch.