Evan Bayh Quotes

If you hang around politics long enough, you tend to get disappointed by people.

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

All my trust in the politicians had been rubbed away.

My generation feels it has been lied to a great deal.

There's nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.

There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe.

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.

President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch.

It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

Obama is not the messiah any longer. He is now your standard, ordinary, everyday politician who lies, who breaks promises, who's in it for himself, who can't do anything on his own. He's not qualified. All of this is becoming known, sadly, too late.

I thought he [Winston Churchill] was a young man of promise, but it appears he was a young man of promises.

We followed you before and you took us on the road to defeat.

You only get disappointed with who you trust the most.

I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.

Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could hardly be a greater contrast between his pledge and his performance in office, between his commitment to the nation and his current abandonment of all hope.

Nothing keeps its promise.

Sometimes you don't know who you can and cannot trust. I still learn that over and over again.

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.