Jack Abramoff Quotes

Political parties exist to secure responsible government and to execute the will of the people. From these great tasks both of the old parties have turned aside. Instead of instruments to promote the general welfare they have become the tools of corrupt interests, which use them impartially to serve their selfish purposes.

I mostly like politicians. Very few of them are evil, although quite a lot are delusional.

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

I don't believe there are heroes or saviours in politics.

Politicians have no politics.

There is nothing wrong with God, and the flag is good as is the family, but what I resent is that the Republicans use these as a cover for their support of big money.

The special interests drive both parties to their extremes.

The liberals of both the Democratic and Republican Parties are the instruments of Satan to destroy the former great principles of these two political parties.

All governments lie, including our own—under Democrats and Republicans.

I'm sick and tired of politics and politicians as usual.

Highly placed New York kingmakers work toward 'convergence' between the Republican and Democratic parties so as to preserve their 'America Last' foreign policy and eliminate foreign policy from political campaigns.

Republicans just don't get that their idea of scandal is not what the average American thinks is a serious scandal.

Some Democrats deserve to be criticized.

The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.

Living in Washington, you can't take politics too seriously. I draw the line at honesty. I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to.

There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.

I hate politics. What they say and what they do is completely different.

I'm not cool with ACORN or the working families' party, or people that vote like democrats and run on Republican lines.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

Washington is politics! Somehow if people have political objectives, then those objectives are automatically disqualified? If that's the case, the Democrats have no business being legitimized about anything because everything they do is political.

I don't get involved in politics. I think that it is a waste of time and money because very often a politician cannot do much, and if you give him money, you embarrass him, so he can't do anything.

We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.

The Democrats are as much a part of the war machine as the Republicans. We can't let Democrats get off the hook because they're Democrats.

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.