Rahm Emanuel Quotes

Washington is a cesspool of non-accountability.

Everywhere I go - from Main Street to Wall Street - people ask, 'What's happened to our political system? Why can't Washington folks work together?'

The establishment of Washington is utterly corrupt and is incapable of governing.

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

But look, you did not have to be well versed in politics to know that some stupid things were going on. It is the counsel's job to stop them, and instead the coverup was created.

The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

Today, corruption has won and justice has lost. I brought corruption cases in good faith involving powerful people, and the political and legal establishment blatantly covered up and retaliated by targeting my law license.

One thing I congratulate everyone on is the great explosion which has occurred in Washington's Black House and the very important scandal which has gripped leaders of America.

Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.

I don't think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.

I've lived in Washington now for 44 years, and that's a lot of folly to witness up close. Whatever confidence and optimism I felt towards the central government when I got here on January 1, 1970 has pretty much dissipated at the hands of the government.

Our representatives are betrayers of the people.

I had enabled the development of a corrupt system right under my very eyes..

People in Washington do things that they shouldn’t do because they owe somebody.

I never will ascribe to this government [Liberal Party] such wrongdoing as mere stupidity will explain.

He that buyeth Magistracy, must sell justice.

New York is having awful corruption scandals. The charges involve politicians acting in such an insanely stupid way, it shatters our longstanding confidence that taking money was the one thing they know how to do well.

For Clinton, I don't see redemption. She is a corrupt political operative of the worst kind.

I understand firsthand that Washington is broken.

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

There's really a fundamental political corruption problem that put Washington completely out of touch with the people.

Here's what I have to say: Obama is a disaster, and Washington politicians are worthless.

Parliamentarianism means putting political prostitution in barracks.

I'm trying to avail myself of the various technologies to get the message that Washington needs to be cleaned up, that the system that's in place is not what's beneficial in the country.

Washington is dominated by big money.