Katharine Viner Quotes

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.

People feel politics isn't about their lives.

I don't think that people are disinterested or uninterested in politics. I think very often they are disengaged from the formal political process. To some extent they are suspicious or even despairing of formal politics as a means to give expression and effect to what they want.

Just by making a decision to stay out of politics, you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it, if you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.

Young people, our rights and the things we care about, have been taken away because it doesn't really matter to the politicians whether or not we have them. We're just another demographic to try and please, but there's no point if we aren't voting.

As I said, I spent most of my adult life thinking I didn't have a vote, and therefore that what I thought didn't matter.

By confirming the importance of politics and politicians in Britain, we can build from the bottom up and begin to reverse the worrying anti-politics trend, which will empower the elite technocrats and leave defenceless the man or woman in the street with a mere vote to cast.

I met a person on my rural tour in northwest Wisconsin who said to me, 'I feel politically homeless.' And we need to re-engage that person.

I'm political in the sense that there's much to be done, but I'm apolitical in the sense that I don't think there's a party that represents anything I believe in.

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.

Politics for me is when I feel a personal engagement between people: I don't trust politicians.

We've had the trivialization of our politics going on ever since we had electronic media.

The media in the States can be quite self-reflective. When I lived in England, I was much more aware of the day-to-day politics that were happening. Living somewhere where the media involvement is greater and so omnipresent, you become pulled into it and, at the same time, because of that, politics changes and the way it's handled changes.

So few people vote these days, and I think it's partly because they don't feel like the institution really means anything to them. If you want them to vote, give them opportunities to do something else other than vote, to help.

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

I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.

Many newspapers have become players as well as spectators in the political debate.

I think there's such disgust and frustration because of Trump that people see me as the vessel for that frustration. They see me as the person who can give voice to what they're feeling.

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.

Obviously, local elections are where you can make the most difference, but it's great when everyone starts talking about what they believe in.

Having a small business and being one of thousands of people whom no one in government will listen to, I have decided to run for supervisor as a person.

The youth don't vote lawmakers into office, and as a result, they don't work for them.

I've spoken about politics a lot over the years and my main issue that I championed was just general engagement in politics.

As a politician, I engage with all kinds of opinions irrespective of whether they are in the media or not.

Listen, in the same way that politics and government allow people to engage in large issues, media does the same.