Political Quotes

“Mr. President, last week Hillary Clinton got about 1 million more votes than Donald Trump; yet here we are--Donald Trump won the Presidency. Across the Nation, everyone is wondering what happens next. It has been barely a week, but we have already seen disgusting ideas emerging from Trump Tower: Put a White supremacist in the White House; float a plan to register all Muslim Americans; draw up plans to round up millions of human beings and rip families apart across this Nation. It is sickening, and we will fight back. But, hey, at least he promised to shake up our corrupt political system, right? I mean, after all, when President-Elect Trump announced his campaign, he called out the politicians who were ``controlled fully by the lobbyists, by the donors, and by the special interests.'' When he accepted his party's nomination at the Republican National Convention, he said, ``When innocent people suffer, because our political system [ . . . ] has sold out to some corporate lobbyist for cash--I am not able to look the other way.'' He promised that he would ``not be controlled by the donors, special interests, and lobbyists who have corrupted our politics and politicians for far too long'' and that he would ``drain the swamp'' in Washington, DC. Those are his words, repeated loud and repeated long during the campaign. President-Elect Trump has now named most of his transition team.…”