Mark Meadows Quotes

Washington is totally out of touch with mainstream America.

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

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

The reason why the Democratic Party fell from grace is because they become nothing more than elitist. That was it. Goldman Sachs - that's who they were.

There is a disconnect between Arkansas and Washington, D.C. The career politicians in Washington are not listening to people here in Arkansas, and this is the fundamental problem with politics.

I think we are just so far away from the political elite. Whether you are on one side or the other, you're still part of that group.

Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.

Members of Congress have more in common with the people they hobnob in Washington, D.C., than they do with the people they're supposed to represent.

Look, I am in the establishment because my dad, the greatest man alive was president of the United States and my brother, who I adore as well as fantastic brother was president. Fine, I'll take it. I guess I'm part of the establishment Barbara Bush is my mom. I'll take that, too.

Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.

In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.

Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him.

I'm not a Washington person.

I have several times suggested that what I call the “Establishment” in this country is today more powerful than ever before. By “Establishment” I do not mean only the centers of official power – though they are certainly part of it – but rather the whole matrix of official and social relations within which power is exercised ... the “Establishment” can be seen at work in the activities of, not only the Prime Minister, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Earl Marshal, but of such lesser mortals as the Chairman of the Arts Council, the Director-General of the BBC, and even the editor of the Times Literary Supplement, not to mention dignitaries like Lady Violet Bonham Carter.

Washington [DC] is a zero sum place.

We're not a democracy. It's a terrible misunderstanding and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we're a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy.

There are two Americas: Washington and the rest of us.

I did not think the Oligarchy would allow Trump to win. However, it seems that the oligarchs were deceived by their own media propaganda.

As the White House doors are slammed in the face of the average American, I want to know if they will still swing wide open for Hollywood and the liberal elite. Will Jay-Z and Beyonce still get to stop by for a tour, or will they be denied like those who aren't rich and famous?

As the polarization in D.C. spreads, the people willing to come to the middle find less and less acceptance.

The biggest loser in 2016 was Washington, D.C.

As soon as you know that someone is running for office, it puts a distance between you and that person.

I went to Washington, D.C, for the first time my senior year as part of Girls Nation, put on by the American Legion Auxiliary, which sends high school students to D.C. to form a pretend federal government. There was an energy about the city that made me feel like I just had to come back there.

The Committee to Save America. Have you ever heard anything more smug, more pompous but - most importantly - more anti-democratic? Because it turns out that the Committee to Save America was really the Committee to Save the American Establishment.

Nobody in media and journalism knows more about 'deep state' than I do.