Michael Steele Quotes

Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.

I believe both parties are sending the wrong kind of people to Washington, D.C.

The American political system has become so short term oriented.

I think the best term limit is to have public financing of campaigns and independent redistricting.

If Democrats in Washington haven't got enough sense to own the issue of political reform, I give up on them entirely.

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

Here in Maine, we know that the system of special interests influencing elections runs contrary to our democratic values.

Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It's just plain wrong.

What has become clear to many Americans is that the electoral system is bankrupt. As the political process becomes more privatized, outsourced, and overrun with money from corporations and billionaires, a wounded republic is on its death bed, gasping for life.

I think Matt Yglesias is wrong to declare that the world of 'This Town' is dying, unless he thinks publicly financed elections, strict lobbying bans and Scandinavian-style wealth distribution are imminent.

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Obviously no one wants to give members of Congress a lot of money, because they barely do anything, and many of them are terrible, but a Congress that is made up of rich-but-not-super-rich people is going to be more corruptible than a Congress of really rich people.

The bottom line is, there have been a lot of nuts elected to the United States Senate.

Sometimes in Congress I believe change is impossible …. Democrats read too many polls to change the climate. Republicans benefit from the climate too much to want to change it.

The American House of Representatives today is a complete travesty upon representative government, upon popular government, and upon government by the majority.

Members of Congress don’t want anyone to have more influence than they have—that’s why they hated Harry Hopkins.

If not checked the power of money will soon control the elections of the President, the senators and the members of the House of representatives.

Congress has become the center of legalized bribery/

Nothing Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton did together will ever have as much impact on election results as the partisan makeup of congressional districts around the country.

There is nothing wrong with our country, there is something wrong with our politics…

If you’ve ever been in politics, I don’t want to vote for you.

I think all politicians have gotten out of touch.

Until we make campaigns affordable, then we're going to have too many members of Congress out rattling the cup with special interest groups.

Legislation to level the playing field for working families is dead on arrival in the Citizens United Congress.

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