Dan Webster Quotes

People are fed up with the career politicians who created this mess or failed to prevent it and neither was acceptable, and the only way we could change that was by sending a different type of person to Washington.

My whole deal is reforming, changing, shaking up Washington. It sure needs it.

We absolutely have to change the status quo in Washington.

I had this perception based on my own frustrations with Washington, but I didn't realize until I launched this campaign how much people are looking for a new generation of leadership and a new approach in Washington.

I want to be at least part of the change in Congress.

Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak our broken system. I'll shut it down.

I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.

Together, we can create something new, something bold, and something to act as a check and balance to Washington's out-of-touch agenda.

We didn't come here to become Washington, we came here to change Washington.

As a Donald Trump supporter, the battle to elevate the will of the people above that of the establishment is one with which I empathize.

In order to change Washington, we're going to have to change the people that we send there.

What we have ignored is what citizens can do and the importance of real involvement of the people versus just having somebody in Washington make a rule.

I think the system is broken; most people think that it's broken. And we think that what we're going to do is invigorate the political system and allow for this country to be turned around.

But I think the - what the tea party movement demonstrates, and I think the, the, the enthusiasm that we're seeing from independents and Republicans, is that if Washington isn't going to change itself, then we're going to change Washington. And I think that's what we're seeing.

I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.

A deep cynicism is taking hold of the country, with more and more Americans convinced that big money calls the shots in Washington and that there is nothing that can be done about it. We must resist that conclusion and fight back on behalf of everyday citizens. Reform is possible, and it is imperative.

Now, a lot of people have given up on government. And if you're one of those people, I would ask that you reconsider, because things are changing. Politics is not changing; government is changing.

It's time to replace career politicians with citizen's politicians. It's time to elect people who are going to stand up to the Washington elite and stand up to a White House and Congress hell-bent on ramming socialism down our throat.

In every jurisdictional area that I can get my fingers on, I want to move us away from the Washington insider economy.

We need new energy back in Washington.

People in both parties are restless for change, ready to break free of old patterns in Washington.

I really do feel like I'm doing what the people that elected me in the first place wanted me to do. I'm not doing it in the same fashion they thought, or that I thought, when I ran for office in 2010. But I will be doing what they wanted me to do, and that is to try to fix Washington.

Congress is corrupt, gridlocked, broken, dysfunctional. It's not working and we need it working again. It's not going to get fixed by people who are deeply, in one way or another, inside this really broken system.

I'm running for Governor because we need a political outsider to move Missouri forward.

I believe in term limits. I believe the country would be hugely better off if we had more turnover in Congress.