When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?
Democracy divides the population into two groups: those of us who complain about government and those of us who are complained about.
My election only proves that the citizens are tired of the experienced politicians who over the past 28 years created a country of opportunities - opportunities to steal, bribe and loot.
I am a citizen of a country that has just undergone a thieved election, a country deeply and dangerously divided between rich and poor, but also between rich and middle class. What I believe in and what my government represents are not the same thing.
The Tea Parties are only here because people are not listening.
Average Americans, middle-class citizens, just feel disenfranchised by our government. And they feel particularly unhappy by what is perceived as business-as-usual politics in Washington.
I don't know what people have against government; they haven't done anything.
Congress is responsible for everything and unable to do anything, hated by the public creditors, insulted by the soldiers and unsupported by the citizens.
Everybody in America is angry about something.
There'd be complaints about federal mandates but every time you'd ask someone to name 10 they would do away with ... you'd get silence.
state expenditures required by Congress
Seven out of 10 Americans don't like the direction the country's going.
The people cannot be all, and always well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive.
A lot of people are deeply dissatisfied by the diminishing control they have over their lives, because of the way our system of government is set up, to cater to the powerful, cater to the wealthy, cater to the corporations, and not to the individual American citizen.
We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way we like it to work.
As the list of abuses by federal agencies grows, Americans are rapidly losing trust in government.
Washington concentrates on the ends of government and not the means. But the people are so disgusted by the means, that that is what they now are worried about.
You can't underestimate the sickness of the American people right now. They're really sick. And, that's, I'm more angry at the sick Americans than I am at Obama or Hillary Clinton. I'm really angry at the sick Americans.