Elizabeth Emken Quotes

I'm not involved in politics any more and they're quite right.

People feel politics isn't about their lives.

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

Nobody cares what any politician in Washington says.

But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in.

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

I wish I could renounce politics.

Our modern world of old story is completely failing humanity. This is the reason that increasing numbers of people have become and are becoming disillusioned from politics. People don't like voting. Whoever you vote, government gets in. Whatever they promise, they never fulfill.

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

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

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.

A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

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.

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.

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

[Describing "political alienation:" The feeling that politics is a racket for a few insiders and is meaningless to the rest of the people.

We have bureaucracy that doesn't really understand what the people want.

All my trust in the politicians had been rubbed away.

People who feel alienated have little trust in the institutions of our society. This adds to the wider sense of disaffection and makes it more difficult for our politics to work.

I think sometimes with politics, young people especially have become disillusioned with it, because they can't relate to it, there's a lot of snobbery and people are a lot older.

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.

A lot of young people are very cynical about the political framework because they see the countries that preach democracy and human rights being countries largely responsible for the problems in their region.

The people of America are tired of voting based on what candidates have told them they're gonna do, and nothing ever changes.