Bill Flores Quotes

People are very upset with Washington. They're upset with Democrats. They're upset with Republicans. They're upset with the establishment.

People are sick of the false choice between the established political parties who take voters for granted.

People hate politicians. And I can understand why.

Voters seem to understand what a big waste of time trying to change Washington is.

Like most thoughtful people who watch what's going on in Washington, venting is very necessary.

One of the reasons people feel so alienated from the American political process is in the fights we get in here in Washington, no one's ever talking about them and the challenges they're going through.

In rural communities, people are upset with the government, upset with what they see as business as usual. They saw Obama as a change agent, and they saw Donald Trump as a change agent.

The people of Alabama are fed up. They are tired of politicians who lie to them, and they are sick of elected officials who've been in Washington so long they've forgotten why they ran in the first place.

Obama ran as sane and decent, as though we were electing a mood, and not necessarily a set of policies. Unfortunately, Obama has governed the same way - and misread the mood, which is all there is, really, because being crazy and stupid is all we're really good at politically any more.

I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.

I mean, it's pretty disillusioning for all of us right now, and we feel pretty helpless when Congress, their approval rating is thirteen percent, and across the board, whether you're a Democrat or a Republican, you sort of want to walk in and fire everybody.

In the absence of specific solutions or evidence that we have people in Washington, D.C., who can make a significant difference... people will cling to those who at least speak to their frustrations.

What the media misses is the amount of anger that's out there. Trump didn't create that.

It's a very angry electorate out there. I think Trump is tapping into that.

I think people vote Ukip from a frustration with politics, which is legitimate, and which politicians have to listen to.

After 24 years in Washington, Senator Collins has become part of that broken system, putting special interests and her political party first. And Mainers know it and feel it.

Politicians in Washington are useless.

The overwhelming message I was getting is that people were sick of politicians fighting amongst themselves and sick of the perception that politicians were in it for themselves and not the community.

I think that people on both sides of the aisle are rejecting what's going on with Washington and the establishment.

People don't have any confidence in Jefferson City. There's incredible anger in the political establishment, and one of the reasons is special interests dominate the Capitol in our state.

Then you get to the last half of the 20th century, Americans are getting very skeptical about their leaders and their institutions, and another place that is affected is parties and conventions.

President Obama and members of his administration constantly express rage and anger over events totally within their control. It's an odd and unsettling fact of American life that so many Americans seem to think that such expressions of frustration should substitute for actual competence.

There's a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there's so much angst across the country.

I can't really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.

People have become disillusioned with Parliament, and that threatens democracy.