MJ Hegar Quotes

Too many people in Washington care about power institutions, not caring about changing the lives of everyday Americans.

Our forefathers never envisioned that a handful of staff write a bill and you rush it through a committee without reading it and you rush it to the floor without reading it, and you pass it just because you're a Democrat and Democrats told you to do that.

I entered Parliament with what I thought to be the lowest possible opinion of the average member. I came out with one still lower.

Why is it so hard for the Congress to do something for the public?

Almost one-fourth of our children are living in poverty. No other western industrialized nation has anything close to that figure. This is not an act of God. There is no divine intervention that says children in America have to live in poverty more than children in Italy, or Denmark, or Great Britain, or Canada, or other western industrialized nations. It a result of flawed policy. It is a result of policy that panders to those who make campaign contributions rather than to needs

Legislation to level the playing field for working families is dead on arrival in the Citizens United Congress.

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

Politicians in Washington are useless.

The average guy doesn't have an army of lobbyists and lawyers working on his behalf every day in the White House.

Why do politicians and bureaucrats get salaries and perks from the pockets of the poor and do nothing for them? So I took action against the corrupt and the lazy.

State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy.

Over the past few years special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the voices of average citizens are being shut out.

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

We have come to expect campaigns to be mean and stupid and politicians to be unresponsive, self-seeking and for sale to the highest bidder. We make jokes about our vice president, and all we ask of a president is that he be likeable. We seem to have given up on the Pentagon's corrupt use of our tax dollars.

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

I think few people of education enter politics because it seems like a contact blood sport.

Obviously, I have certain policy positions that I push and advocate for that would benefit people dealing in a system that breeds inequality and makes life more difficult for people.

I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here.

I can imagine people in Third World countries looking at, you know, someone like Hillary Clinton raising $35 million for her presidential campaign that goes to really, you know, nonproductive means, and they see that, and they just - it's just really immoral, I believe.

People need to understand that in Washington, the process is the punishment.

I believe that cronyism is nothing more than welfare for the rich and powerful, and should be abolished.

I understand how bureaucracies work. And that's important because our government has become a vast, huge, bloated, corrupt bureaucracy.

I'm running for president because I've had enough of the oil barons, the status-quo apologists, the special-interest lobbyists running amok.

We are beginning to see a fundamental outrage at the whole interconnected mess of a system: at energy companies who record massive profits, yet allow pensioners to struggle to stay warm in winter; at CEOs who can earn up to a 1,000 times the salary of their average worker; and soon, any day now, at those politicians who allowed this to happen.

When you have corporate influence on our government outweighing the influence of citizens, that's terrifying. This is something we have to make a big, big noise about.