The Swamp Quotes

“Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. —ERICH FROMM”
― Eric Bolling, The Swamp: Washington's Murky Pool of Corruption and Cronyism and How Trump Can Drain It

“NATO is not just a club of countries we like; NATO members are obliged to defend each other in the event of attack. We take on a responsibility and a risk with each and every member of that alliance.”
― Eric Bolling, The Swamp: Washington's Murky Pool of Corruption and Cronyism and How Trump Can Drain It

“The government should be run like a great American company. Our hope is that we can achieve successes and efficiencies for our customers, who are the citizens.”
― Eric Bolling, The Swamp: Washington's Murky Pool of Corruption and Cronyism and How Trump Can Drain It

“One of the ensnared, bribe-taking congressman Michael “Ozzie” Myers—a Pennsylvania Democrat and former longshoreman with a propensity for profanity and violence—memorably told one of the sting participants, “I’m gonna tell you something real simple and short: Money talks in this business and bullshit walks. And it works the same way down in Washington.” With that, he took an envelope full of $50,000 in hundred-dollar bills and earned himself three years in prison.”
― Eric Bolling, The Swamp: Washington's Murky Pool of Corruption and Cronyism and How Trump Can Drain It

“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. —PRESIDENT DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER”
― Eric Bolling, The Swamp: Washington's Murky Pool of Corruption and Cronyism and How Trump Can Drain It

“Deservedly or not, the bigger a government gets and the more it intrudes into our lives, the more paranoid the public will understandably become about what each fresh scandal means.”
― Eric Bolling, The Swamp: Washington's Murky Pool of Corruption and Cronyism and How Trump Can Drain It

“As Roosevelt said, observing the rising power of the bureaucratic elite, “A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”
― Eric Bolling, The Swamp: Washington's Murky Pool of Corruption and Cronyism and How Trump Can Drain It

“James A. Morone 1990 book The Democratic Wish argues, time and again in American history, the longing for political reform simply led to even bigger, more distant government and new layers of bureaucracy.”
― Eric Bolling, The Swamp: Washington's Murky Pool of Corruption and Cronyism and How Trump Can Drain It

“The bigger the machine, the more grease it requires to keep the thing moving. If individual politicians at times behave like criminals, and you therefore expect groups of politicians to act like organized crime, you’d be correct. Unfortunately (for American taxpayers), there are too many examples of “political crime machines” to include them all, but some are so egregious they cannot be ignored.”
― Eric Bolling, The Swamp: Washington's Murky Pool of Corruption and Cronyism and How Trump Can Drain It

“The Podesta Group (founded by the brother of Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman) lobbied for Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank, which is directly tied to the Kremlin, according to intelligence officials. Tony Podesta also received about $900,000 from a group that lobbied on behalf of Viktor Yanukovych, the ousted Putin-allied Ukrainian president. The Podesta Group also successfully lobbied their pal Hillary Clinton, while she was secretary of state, to let a Russian company, whose chairman made a big donation to the Clinton Foundation, buy about a fifth of the U.S. uranium supply. A Russian bank affiliated with the company paid Bill Clinton a half million dollars just before the deal went through.”
― Eric Bolling, The Swamp: Washington's Murky Pool of Corruption and Cronyism and How Trump Can Drain It

“President Obama apparently approved, upping the United States’ contribution to the UN by about 50 percent over the course of his presidency, including $9.2 billion just as he was exiting the White House. One of the Trump administration’s first acts was to freeze an additional $221 million payment to the UN’s good friends, the Palestinian Authority.”
― Eric Bolling, The Swamp: Washington's Murky Pool of Corruption and Cronyism and How Trump Can Drain It

“it should give us pause if the elites who govern Americans are not as loyal to their countrymen as they are to the rising institutions of global governance that emerged in the twentieth century, such as the United Nations or the European Union—institutions that have come to be distrusted by many people within and beyond the United States in the twenty-first century. The fact that Americans take pride in their country has long been viewed as a bit of an embarrassment by the global elite, something Trump tapped into with small but meaningful gestures as simple as his red “Make America Great Again” hat. He knew intuitively, even when his ideological opponents thought they had all the statistics and expertise on their side, that regular Americans resented being told that there was nothing they could do in the face of the great globalist tide that was robbing them of their livelihood. Americans don’t like being told that their loyalty to country, their patriotism, is retrograde or hateful.”
― Eric Bolling, The Swamp: Washington's Murky Pool of Corruption and Cronyism and How Trump Can Drain It

“Would you believe that during the Obama years a U.S. district court judge was arrested trying to buy cocaine from an FBI agent? Or that another was sentenced to jail for two years for lying about sexual harassment? Or that a New York congressman did jail time for tax fraud? Or that a California congresswoman was fined $10,000 for tampering with evidence related to campaign violations?”
― Eric Bolling, The Swamp: Washington's Murky Pool of Corruption and Cronyism and How Trump Can Drain It

“Much as we might like to imagine politicians have higher standards than the rest of us—since, after all, they’re so often the ones lecturing the rest of us about what to do—this book will show that they are a good deal worse than you and”
― Eric Bolling, The Swamp: Washington's Murky Pool of Corruption and Cronyism and How Trump Can Drain It

“When in doubt, the Founding Fathers preferred that our government do nothing. We’re usually safest when it does. The scariest words someone can hear in their lifetime are: “We’re with the government, and we are here to help you.” If that ever happens to you, run the opposite way!”
― Eric Bolling, The Swamp: Washington's Murky Pool of Corruption and Cronyism and How Trump Can Drain It

“An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.”
― Eric Bolling, The Swamp: Washington's Murky Pool of Corruption and Cronyism and How Trump Can Drain It

“Mugwump” Republicans (their nickname a mangled version of a Native American word meaning “important person”)”
― Eric Bolling, The Swamp: Washington's Murky Pool of Corruption and Cronyism and How Trump Can Drain It