Ellen Malcolm Quotes

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.

Its easy to view politicians as corrupt and voting essentially an act of picking the lesser of two evils. I understand that perspective and feel it's valid.

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.

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.

People feel politics isn't about their lives.

It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.

As politicians we have to react to the fact that many people do not feel that they can relate to the EU.

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

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.

If the Republicans think that by having stated and even achieved most of the Contract that they are therefore entitled to the acceptance and favor of the American voter, they're crazy.

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

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.

I think the media has been in denial just like the party regulars have been in denial. They just don't understand that the government that we have today is not what the people want as a government.

Public perception of the Westminster arena, with all its posturings, does little to engender a sense of voter belief.

A growing number of people in this country do not believe that it makes a real difference who is elected President of the United States.

Americans expect too much of politics.

The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer.

Bright, serious people who understand policy still do run for and serve in the House and Senate, but they are a small minority. Service in Congress is losing its allure.

Don’t vote. it only encourages the bastards.

Money is the fuel that makes political victory possible. Sadly, folks, in many cases it's more important than ideas. And this is what turns off so many people to politics.

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.

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

People are so frustrated by electing people to represent them in Washington, D.C., and having them immediately forget about the Hoosiers they represent.

If politicians did care about their constituents, they would work harder to seek out people like me. They don't.

I'm tired of politicians saying one thing to get elected and then going to Washington, D.C., or Denver or wherever and completely forgetting about you.