Charles Koch Quotes

No matter how you rearrange President Obama's inner circle, it still looks, smells and tastes like a rotten Chicago deep-dish pizza.

Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again it's the system - there are lots of nice, well-meaning people there. But it's a sleazy place. And politics is all about doing favors.

I've been able to see some very impressive people that are in politics, and I've been able to see a lot more people that are much less impressive that I don't know if I'd want to spend my life working with. When I see sort of how the sausage is made, it's not very pretty.

It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men.

Candidate Obama was either exceptionally naive or willfully disingenuous when he vowed to change the way Washington works. The very promise of Hope and Change was rooted in uprooting the Washington modus operandi. But instead of rejecting it, he embraced it all - the secrecy, the closed doors, the political favors, the near-criminal negligence.

There is this concept of politics as a dirty game.

The usually travelled route for a great many Members of the last Congress was an exceedingly crooked one, even for politicians.

People in Washington do things that they shouldn’t do because they owe somebody.

Politics was just about as dirty in those days as it is now.

Politics is a dirty business for a gentleman ...

In Washington, every closet has a revolving door.

Does it seem like Washington's rigged for the well connected? That's because it is.

Show me a supposedly 'unfixable' problem in Washington, and I'll show you the political corruption standing in the way.

Donald Trump is the swamp.

There's not a self-regulating group of nice fair-playing people in politics. There are a lot of dodgy people in politics.

The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.

The quicker we get rid of the lobby system the better for all of us. I don't think in this day and age it is tenable to have these nods and winks, and on-the-record and off-the-record briefings.

Hillary Clinton embodies the corruption of Washington.

I would argue that one of the issues which the public should be much more emphatic about with all politicians... is patronage, appointing people to high positions because they supported your campaign or helped you raise money.

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

He [Donald Trump] buys and sells politicians of all stripes.

The assumption has to be that members of Congress are, like eunuchs in a harem, physically incapable of a conflict of interest.

Clinton talks reform, but it's business as usual in Washington with different pigs at the trough.

Government runs by clout. That's how it runs, by clout.

Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts