Angela Merkel Quotes

I do vote but I don't think that any political party represents my point of view.

People have become disillusioned with Parliament, and that threatens democracy.

It was clear, for example, in 1988 that the political process had already become perilously remote from the electorate it was meant to represent.

I've got four lovely children, ten lovely grandchildren, and I left parliament to devote more time to politics, and I think that what is really going on in Britain is a growing sense of alienation. People don't feel anyone listens to them.

A lot of people in America and Europe feel that their governments are not representing them very much.

EMILY's List has worked a lot with swing women voters over the years, and one thing we've learned is that they are very cynical about politics and politicians. They very much want help with the challenges facing them and their families, and they feel like most politicians don't understand or want to lift a finger to help them out.

The Blair government has lowered the standing of politics and politicians in our country.

What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house.

The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.

Politically active people felt more and more disenfranchised, particularly during the ultra-New Labour years.

The mistrust of government that blossomed in the late '60s has become a chronic and in some ways pathological condition.

Americans expect too much of politics.

There's a total separation between the federal government and the people. So running for president was an attempt on my part to get people to care enough to go vote. But people just don't bother. And that's why it's not working.

One of the reasons people feel so alienated from the American political process is in the fights we get in here in Washington, no one's ever talking about them and the challenges they're going through.

What I see is that the Democratic Party takes working class communities for granted, they take people of color for granted, and they just assume that we're going to turn out no matter how bland or half-stepping these proposals are.

Feinstein doesn't interact with the people at all, and I think it breeds cynicism.

I wish I could renounce politics.

People are really looking for greater sense of control of what happens in their lives, about the issues they really care about, and they feel that the political system doesn't necessarily deliver.

I think people vote Ukip from a frustration with politics, which is legitimate, and which politicians have to listen to.

People don't trust party leaders.

People are sick of the false choice between the established political parties who take voters for granted.

I was born and brought up in south east London and been very conscious for a long time that people feel politics happens to them and not with them.

At a moment when people are losing faith in their ability to participate in politics and make themselves heard, the media can play a critical role in reversing that sense of alienation.

I've never been inspired by a politician in France, and I think a lot of my own generation think that way.

Governments do not care about your Facebook-assembled opinion. Incompetent politicians don't read your tweets; there are reasons for them being out of touch. Change does not come about for 'likes' on a page, though the ideas for it may start there.