Henry Adams Quotes

Politics, as a body, has failed the people.

People hate politicians. And I can understand why.

I find politicians globally are somewhat disappointing, not just in Ireland.

Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country-and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.

I would as soon go to live in a pen in a stockyard as into American politics

Politicians are so... detested; they don't actually walk amongst people now.

After 24 years in Washington, Senator Collins has become part of that broken system, putting special interests and her political party first. And Mainers know it and feel it.

People don't trust party leaders.

The people of Alabama are fed up. They are tired of politicians who lie to them, and they are sick of elected officials who've been in Washington so long they've forgotten why they ran in the first place.

The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood.

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

Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers; they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens.

Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.

We have come to expect campaigns to be mean and stupid and politicians to be unresponsive, self-seeking and for sale to the highest bidder. We make jokes about our vice president, and all we ask of a president is that he be likeable. We seem to have given up on the Pentagon's corrupt use of our tax dollars.

As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it'll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.

Politics itself is not sacred any more.

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

Are my politics Democrat or Republican? I think both are horrific. And it doesn't matter anyway. Money runs America; money runs everywhere.

People don't like politicians.

I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them.

If the President says, oh, Washington's got to change, and people are doubting whether my change can really happen, I think instead what the public's begun to see is the change they're seeing is not the change they voted for.

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

It is true what is said in Washington - 'No matter how cynical you get, it's never enough to catch up.'

People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.

Politics has come to resemble a cynical team game played by politicians, while the public has been pushed aside as if sitting on the seats of a stadium in which passion for politics is gradually making room for blindness and desperation.