Political Insiders Quotes

I believe that both Obama and Trump would describe themselves as outsiders.

I got all the respect in the world for the front-runners in this race, but ask yourself: If we replace a Democratic insider with a Republican insider, you think we're really going to change Washington, D.C.? You don't have to settle for Washington and Wall Street insiders who supported the Wall Street bailout and the Obamacare individual mandate.

I'm not a career politician, so the ways of Washington may be a little obscure to me.

I don't want anybody suspecting I am some sheep and part of the Washington D.C. establishment.

The rise of a new kind of political science in the 1960s has been driving a wedge between political insiders and voters ever since. By turning voters into interest groups, it stopped establishment leaders from articulating a national narrative. It opened the way for Movement Conservatives to create today's political crisis.

My close proximity to many of the newsmakers can give me a different perspective about people in politics and what they might say than others who don't know them.

Well, I'm not a member of the permanent political establishment, and I've learned quickly these last few days that if you're not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone.

I'm not a Washington person.

To me, 'the establishment' means people who are out of touch with the people they're elected to represent.

Politics, they all - talked to the insiders.

That White House Correspondents Dinner was pathetic. The rest of America is out there working our asses off while these DC assclowns throw themselves a nerdprom.”

It's kind of the Washington, D.C., chattering class. They kind of talk amongst themselves.

... Washington is, for one thing, the news capital of the world. And for another, it is a company town. Most of the interesting people in Washington either work for the government or write about it.

If you thought Donald Trump was going to be swallowed up by the conventional Republican Party or by Washington, you were wrong.

Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.

At the end of the day, the Washington establishment is going to go where they're going to go.

'The Means' is about power. I have access to political insiders who helped me write a portrait of the real day-to-day in politics, which turned out to be crazier than Wall Street.

On Hillary Clinton's side, she believes she's unaccountable to the American people. She favors these old ideas about government, these - these centralized, top down solutions from Washington that keep insiders in the know and give them influence, but regular Americans have no voice.

The Clintons are one of the most closed political organisations operating in America today. It is a kind of secret society.

Most of who's left in the administration now are all these yes men and fanboys who were van drivers or press flacks for Barack Obama in Iowa and New Hampshire in 2008.

One of the odder byways of nonfiction is the dishy memoir by those who have served the great or the near-great.

I am not the candidate of career politicians in Washington.