Erik Prince Quotes

Along with Trump, there are few people, on either the right or the left, who would defend the system. The system is, everyone believes, broken: it's an insider's game; it's totally fixed; it serves itself. Trump codified this into a simple and vivid idea: the swamp.

Most scandals involve broken laws. In the case of the congressional campaign financing system, the laws themselves are the scandal.

Clinton talks reform, but it's business as usual in Washington with different pigs at the trough.

Donald Trump is the swamp.

Mrs. Clinton is the embodiment of a corrupt establishment owned by special interests, having personally enriched herself by giving closed-door speeches to Wall Street firms and the big banks.

For too long, Missouri has been run by career politicians, owned by corrupt consultants, high-paid lobbyists and special interests.

Candidate Obama was either exceptionally naive or willfully disingenuous when he vowed to change the way Washington works. The very promise of Hope and Change was rooted in uprooting the Washington modus operandi. But instead of rejecting it, he embraced it all - the secrecy, the closed doors, the political favors, the near-criminal negligence.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Our founders never intended us to have a professional political class.

When you start attacking cronyism and people's political interests, it gets nasty.

It is in the committee that the dirty work is done ... away from the many-eyed scrutiny of the rest of Congress and the public ... special interest legislation usually originates in the committee room.

Our nation was founded on the pork barrel, and it has become great by political log-rolling.

Mr. Bush has eliminated the middle man and simply allowed lobbyists to run our government.

Washington has become a permanent feudal class of insiders …those are people who are formally in office, staffers, journalists, hangers on … that becomes self-perpetuating … a Congress in which 42 percent become lobbyists… You have people coming here with no intention of going back to the farm.

There is a permanent political class.

In Washington, every closet has a revolving door.

Does it seem like Washington's rigged for the well connected? That's because it is.

Show me a supposedly 'unfixable' problem in Washington, and I'll show you the political corruption standing in the way.

Mr. Trump has tapped into the frustrations of many Americans who feel the effects of a dismal economy and believe the political system is rigged and owned by the establishment.

It should scare every voter in the 5th District that a powerful D.C. lobbyist is trying to install a personal congressman in our part of Connecticut.

Politicians have been the primary hurdle to reforms, and corruption is the center of the problem.

Every economy exists, no matter what the level of democracy, has elements of crony capitalism. It's - given human nature and given the democratic structures, which we all, I assume, adhere to, that is an inevitable consequence.

I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.

The pressure of special interests, the demands of special sections of the state, the needs of friends, all must be subordinated to the good of the people as a whole.

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