Chuck Grassley Quotes

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

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

We only have politicians who are concerned with being reelected.

Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.

Politics disgusts me.

Politics makes me sick.

The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.

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

We have become part-time Senators and full time fund-raisers. Even the schedule of the Senate itself is now arranged around the need to raise money for the next political campaign, rather than around the need to solve the nation's problems and do the people's business.

I think all politicians have gotten out of touch.

Billionaires and corporations buy and sell politicians, while citizens struggle to exercise their right to vote or hold their elected representatives to account.

I've been able to see some very impressive people that are in politics, and I've been able to see a lot more people that are much less impressive that I don't know if I'd want to spend my life working with. When I see sort of how the sausage is made, it's not very pretty.

Everyone should work in politics to see how horrible it is.

Politicians are elected to do what is right, but too many are just doing what is right for the party.

Well, I don't know too many governors who are flaming ideologues.

Washington is dominated by big money.

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

As a matter of fact I don't like politics. I really don't. I think it's so jaded now and everybody has to follow the party line.

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

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

People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.

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

I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people.