Maxime Bernier Quotes

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

You think that somehow they didn't come after me to get rid of me because my vote is the deciding vote in the health care bill? Then, ladies and gentlemen, you live today in a world that is so innocent as to not understand what's going on in Washington, D.C.

For all Trump's criticisms of government, his family wealth came from feeding at the government trough. His father, Fred Trump, leveraged government housing programs into a construction business; the empire was founded on public money.

Both Republicans and Democrats are corrupt. The motto of the Democratic Party is, "Anything to get in." The motto of the Republican Party is "Anything to stay in.

The Export-Import Bank's long legacy of crony capitalism has hurt the livelihoods and businesses of many Americans who don't get special treatment from this misguided government program.

People are afraid of an unorganized, wasteful government.

Many of the earmark request forms are actually filled out by lobbyists and then just turned in by the member's staff to the appropriations committee.

When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set.

Two million dollars is only small when you're talking about Washington, D.C.

The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.

I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me.

But they are not going to take on Big Oil because Big Oil is very generous at campaign time, and this is all about the elections. They want to pretend that they are doing something meaningful.

Too often, they play to whatever group is the loudest down at City Hall, and they buy them off, essentially.

There's a lot of politics over who gets the next allocation of Congressional funding.

In America, politicians do whatever to get re-elected, and a lot of decisions that were being made at that time by Kennedy were certain not to get him re-elected.

In Congress, it's all pork, all the time.

In the United States, large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation's funeral at our expense.

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

We see people voting for bills that their ideals and principles are opposed to, but because their little funding project is in there, they're voting for it. We might say it's one percent of all spending but the impact of that spending is far greater.

A boatload of government money is indeed a gift. Unless, I suppose, you're one of the saps paying for the cargo.

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

The Pig Book

The host of contractors, speculators, stockjobbers, and lobby members which haunt the halls of Congress, all desirous ... to get their arm into the public treasury, are sufficient to alarm every friend of this country. Their progress must be arrested.

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

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