Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes

The problem is, the Republican Party hasn't done anything to make this country better and I speak as a Republican.

I view the traditional two parties as in some ways very evil. They've become monsters that are out of control. The two parties don't have in mind what's best for Minnesota. The only things that are important to them are their own agendas and their pork. Government's become just a battle of power between the two parties.

Frankly, I'm fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us about family values. Our families have values. But our government doesn’t.

Politicians in Washington are useless.

In a way, the road between Huaraz and the lodge is a metaphor for Peruvian politics. It used to be in good repair, and in some places still is.

If career politicians had the solutions, we wouldn't be in the mess that we are.

Politicians are never going to turn this country around. Our country's a mess. The politicians are going to destroy this country. They're weak and they're ineffective.

The Republicans in my state are expressing impatience and disappointment that so little progress has been made during the last eight months in calling to the support of the Administration men loyal to it and in full sympathy with it.

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.

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

I don't hate Republicans as individuals. But I hate what the Republicans are doing to this country. I really do.

Must be nice to be a Republican senator sometimes, because you get the fun of breaking sh*t and the joy of complaining the sh*t you just broke doesn't work.

People hate politicians. And I can understand why.

I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold.

Republicans have said much worse things about me than any Democrat ever has.

I love my homeland, but it's an absurd country. Politics in the Philippines is like spectator sports!

Well, I am a Republican, and I would run as a Republican. And I have a lot of confidence in the Republican Party. I don't have a lot of confidence in the president. I think what's happening to this country is unbelievably bad. We're no longer a respected country.

I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

I'm truly worried about the country's direction. I can tell you this categorically, we've got the weakest president and the weakest governor in the history of my 50 years of public service.

Debate is almost non-existent and no one is apparently accountable to anybody apart from their political party bosses. It is bad news for democracy in this country.

I'm a Republican, by the way.

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?'

It's always in the second administration when things start to go sour. They circle the wagons.

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

Today's Republican party is too beholden to factions generally.