Kevin de Leon Quotes

No matter where we go in the state, I hear from Mainers that they are ready for someone to stand up for them in Washington.

Do you want to know what scares the Washington cartel? Actually, not remotely. I don't scare them in the tiniest bit. What scares them is you. What scares them is that old Reagan coalition is coming back together, of conservatives.

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

Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.

It's time to bring tough medicine to Washington. No longer will policy be set by K Street, it will be dictated by Main Street.

You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion.

People who think the might in Washington can be persuaded, or corrupted if you will, by anything less than voters just doesn’t understand what its about and never will. They don’t know what Washington juice is made of.

People are gravitating towards Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders because they are doing their own thing. I think people are trying to cut out the middle man and just get to the source and get away from Washington politics.

I ran for Congress in 2012 because I had had enough. Enough of career politicians, enough of political gamesmanship, and enough of the lack of leadership in Washington.

I think we have enough Washington in Washington, and I think maybe we need a little more Florida, and this recipe that's worked for Florida, in Washington.

One lesson of the vote for Brexit was that citizens were fed up being treated as bystanders. One of the gains of Leave was the flourishing of a sense of agency and self-determination that it afforded to many.

Government tends to believe in top-down solutions, and government fears of bottom-up solutions.

If the resistance is going to bring Trump down, it will require Democrats to follow the people, not the other way around. My hope is that the Democrats will realize where their power lies, and will start taking their cues from the people on the ground and not the other way.

Everyday Americans really having the power here. People may remember, or you may have heard if you weren't there during the [Richard] Nixon years, we had one of the worst Presidents ever on record but we the American people have the sense of our own power. We were in the driver's seat.

Having a small business and being one of thousands of people whom no one in government will listen to, I have decided to run for supervisor as a person.

When I think about Sen. Collins, I think she might have been different from the other people in Washington when she was first elected but I have to ask is that still the case.

My personal belief in doing Brand New Congress is that the movement needs something to focus on that's constructive.

I didn't come to Washington to be part of the problem.

The reason people like the Young Turks is because we say things you're not allowed to say in Washington that are obviously true.

I've always believed in speaking my mind, and I think the technology has made it more prominent. Even a common man's voice is heard prominently now, much to the chagrin and surprise of politicians. They aren't used to that.

A small group of motivated citizens can potentially have as much influence as a lobby group spending millions of dollars.

I'm running for Senate to create real change in Washington, which starts with getting big money out of politics and overturning Citizens United.

Someone like Bernie Sanders can be in office for 30 years, but he's not the establishment.

Biden's first day, and Psaki's first day, sent a message that functional government is back.

The White House is not where power comes from in this country. The cities and the local communities of this nation are prepared to save Washington - and not vice versa.