Jake Tapper Quotes

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

The elite interests must not crowd out the interests of the citizens.

In the age of term limits, unfortunately, you see power not in the people who are elected by the people, but instead more in the hands of the people who are working behind the scenes.

Well, I don't think most Americans are playing the super-PAC game. I think what you have is elites on both sides playing the super-PAC game.

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.

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

You look at the pillars of the state: politics, the media, police, lawyers - they've all got their formal role, and then nestling above that is that power elite who are networked in through soft, social links, that are actually running the show. Why didn't I know that 10 years ago, and why didn't I rail against it? Why did I become part of it?

Everyone else is represented in Washington by a powerful lobby ... But there is no lobby for the people.

The special interests are protected in Washington and the public interest is submerged.

In my experience, only third-rate intelligence is sent to Legislatures to make laws, because the first-rate article will not leave important private interests go unwatched to go and serve the public for a beggarly four or five dollars a day, and a miserably trivial distinction

My thesis is that government is not, in fact, broken. It's just listening to the wrong people, and it's listening to all of this quiet influence. So it's a very robust operation that operates kind of under the surface.

The average citizen saw that the big PACs with the billionaires and the multimillionaires get what they want in Washington, but the average citizen is left behind.

Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.

The career politicians down in Washington don't want to be held accountable.

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

The Constitution authorizes Congress to tax Americans to provide for the common defense and promote the general welfare. But in Washington, the professional political class has hijacked that authority to rig up a tax code that provides for the well-being of Washington, not the country.

It's not empirically wrong to say that Washington isn't working for the American people and Washington does too many things for powerful special interests and it's broken.

Nobody in media and journalism knows more about 'deep state' than I do.

We give money to the E.U. and they give it back according to the priorities they choose, with an unelected group of people choosing those priorities.

Once I got into politics, I saw the real fight, where big money controls everything, and where politicians care more about campaign contributions than the people they're supposed to represent.

Rather than working for all, power and public policy is increasingly influenced by wealthy elites that are able to bend the rules - and hijack democratic institutions - to their favour.

I find the Democratic party overall, on a macro level, to be institutionally corrupt.

We need to get big money out of Washington.

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

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