Peter T. King Quotes

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

Really, Donald Trump's entire message is that people like Sen. Blunt are the problem.

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.

I think that's most unfortunate about our Democratic system, that you're confining it to people who are either very wealthy in their own right or have capacity to gain access to large amounts of money.

Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.

Rarely in American history has any particular Congress been held in high esteem …

Something is systemically wrong with Congress today, and it's money, the pursuit of money, the endless pursuit of money, the virtual hourly pursuit of money, either to finance the perpetual campaign or to maintain a certain standard of living.

He [Richard Nixon] is still the handmaiden of big business as he always has been.

Why is it so hard for the Congress to do something for the public?

You don't want Congress peopled by millionaires.

I hate to tell you, but it's not always pretty up there on Capitol Hill

The only time the Democrats and the Republicans are together is when they are voting for their own pay raise.

Congress actively undermines the best of legislative practice.

Anybody who thinks there's not a vast right-wing conspiracy in this country must also think that Ken Starr should be our next ambassador to Luxembourg.

The Citizens United decision dramatically intensified the political gridlock in our country.

The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today.

I think it's clear to me that what - when I look at the tea party, it's about one-third Democrat, one-third Republican, one-third independents. But 100 percent of them are sure that the agenda that is taking place in Washington, D.C., is about extremism and is about bankrupting this country and every state within this country.

Over the past few years special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the voices of average citizens are being shut out.

The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience.

We have the best government that money can buy.

American politicians are responsive almost solely to the interests and desires of their rich constituents and interest groups that primarily represent big business.

You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans!

The Patriotic Millionaires campaign, pulled together quickly by the Agenda Project in New York City, just happens to appear on the same day as a new study from the Center for Responsive Politics revealing that half of the members of the House and the Senate are millionaires.

I think extremists within the base may very well move the Democratic party away from its pro-Israel position.