Carlos Beruff Quotes

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

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?'

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 is a complete mess. It's become a venue for partisan bickering, where the needs of the working class just don't matter.

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

I understand firsthand that Washington is broken.

We have all seen Washington politicians fail us.

I think that people on both sides of the aisle are rejecting what's going on with Washington and the establishment.

I went to Washington several times at the request of different parties to talk about education reform. I used to always say I felt like I needed to take a shower after I left, because it was so partisan that I just really hated it.

It's the No.1 issue with people I talk to, whether Republican, Democrat or independent. They want to see the way business is done in Washington change.

One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the Democrats, let's all be friends in Washington philosophy.

I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.

The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless.

The Senate is no longer a place for any decent man. I am truly sick of Congress.

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.

What makes this harder is that it is my party that is ruining the country.

If Democrats in Washington haven't got enough sense to own the issue of political reform, I give up on them entirely.

Trump assumed office promising to 'drain the swamp' in Washington, D.C. Instead, the swamp has grown wider and deeper.

The more I watch politicians in action, it just makes me angry.

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

I stand with everyone who is sick of hearing about Washington cutting insider deals to their friends in business, politicians failing on their promises to fight increases in government spending, and more costly and complicated rules from Washington that make everyone's lives harder.

After 30 years in Washington, it is clear that Mitch McConnell has lost touch with our state, its people, and our values.

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

The people of Alabama are fed up. They are tired of politicians who lie to them, and they are sick of elected officials who've been in Washington so long they've forgotten why they ran in the first place.

Too many of the career politicians, the established politicians in Washington on both sides of the aisle, are representing their party more than the people. And no matter what the media says, the ballot box will determine what people truly believe.