Rickey Medlocke Quotes

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.

Politician is a term of reproach.

Both Republicans and Democrats are corrupt. The motto of the Democratic Party is, "Anything to get in." The motto of the Republican Party is "Anything to stay in.

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.

We have the best government that money can buy.

You can't blame anyone for being cynical about politicians.

You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.

When you start attacking cronyism and people's political interests, it gets nasty.

There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery's version of the Barack Obama 'Hope' poster previously belonged to a pair of lobbyists. Depressing because Mr. Obama's Washington was not supposed to be the lobbyists' Washington, the place we learned to despise during the last administration.

When I got into politics, it was a shock. People promise all sorts of things and then never deliver.

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

I've never met a politician I haven't wanted to walk away from, and I've yet to hear a politician speak and actually believe the words coming out of his mouth.

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

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

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

Bull permeates everything.... American people think politics and politicians are full of baloney.

Of course, in my country most political leaders are really, well, I suppose I think of them as being, well, not gangsters but more or less the same kind of thing, no? I mean—people who go in for getting elected. What can you expect of a man like that?

[Referring to the Senate:] ... a bunch of fat cats up there raking in the bucks.

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

There's an impression in the public that Congress takes care of its own.

One thing about a pig. He thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

I entered Parliament with what I thought to be the lowest possible opinion of the average member. I came out with one still lower.

The railroad men did not hesitate to dominate government where they could.