Barack Obama Quotes

I believe both parties are sending the wrong kind of people to Washington, D.C.

Politics is broken.

Whether you are on the Right or the Left, everyone can agree that there are a lot of outside influences in American politics that are not good for the system. There's just too much money.

Everywhere I go - from Main Street to Wall Street - people ask, 'What's happened to our political system? Why can't Washington folks work together?'

Politics disgusts me.

The American political system is so porous, it's so open, it's so frustrating for those who are trying to make policy.

People know something has gone terribly wrong with our government and it has gotten so far off track. But people also know that there is nothing wrong in America that a good old-fashioned election can't fix.

I think all politicians have gotten out of touch.

There does seem to be in the U.S. now an ideology and an entrenchment that has stopped people doing what they are hired to do, which is govern rather than run for office the whole time.

The American political system has become so short term oriented.

If you’ve ever been in politics, I don’t want to vote for you.

When I deliver the message to a cross section of Rhode Island that democracy is broken because special interests have relentless power - which prevents politicians from compromising despite popular support on an issue - I don't have any pushback.

I understand firsthand that Washington is broken.

I think there are really serious problems in this country and I think politics in a lot of ways is failing the country.

Representative democracy is in crisis in the United States.

I think one of the biggest curses in the U.S. is that we have only two political parties.

Politics makes me sick.

The thing about American politics, as I've learned, is there is no choice.

Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.

America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.

We don't need to allow any more Nancy Pelosies to wind up in Congress.

Debate is almost non-existent and no one is apparently accountable to anybody apart from their political party bosses. It is bad news for democracy in this country.

Sometimes in Congress I believe change is impossible …. Democrats read too many polls to change the climate. Republicans benefit from the climate too much to want to change it.

Our democratic system was put in place before we had democratic ideals. The system now provides a playground for special interests, and its democratic structure makes reforms difficult.

The people are fed up with politics and partisanship.