James Reston Quotes

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference and undernourishment.

I'm your average Joe guy. I don't really care for politicians.

I don't even know what the issues are. I haven't paid attention to politics in a long time. It's actually not something that I really even enjoy. It's way off my radar.

I'm not a political guy; I really don't care a lot about politics. I never have and probably never will.

Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.

I'm not a policymaker, I'm not a pundit. In fact, I don't have any interest in it. It's not on my agenda.

I come from a past of addition, so I didn't pay much attention to politics.

I never ever paid attention to any election.

I wasn't interested in politics. My attitude about it was, I can't make a difference no matter what I do. And the truth is, I don't even care enough to try.

I don't know much about politics, and I don't want to know. That's why I rarely involve myself in politics.

The political graveyards are full of people who don't respond.

I don't really get into that whole red-blue-conservative-liberal because I can't tell them apart. They all seem inept. So, for me, it's not something I focus on at all. I probably should be more political than I am. I just don't care.

Partisan politics is not my passion.

I actually, honestly don't look into politics that much.

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 have no interest in politics. I have been offered to join politics, but I am not even interested in it even one per cent.

There's a great public disinclination toward politicians.

I get no pleasure from politics; it's not in my character.

In elections in Iceland, I have always been an abstainer. It seems like politics is such a small bundle of self-important people, who don't have much to do with things I'm interested in.

It's a big deal for me to say I'm over politics.

I've never been disappointed by politicians. I've never invested that much in them in the first place.

I honestly have no interest in politics; I don't think I could ever get into politics.

I have absolutely zero interest in politics.

I don't miss politics.

In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn.