Thom Yorke Quotes

My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.

I wish I could renounce politics.

Politics is a waste of time.

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

I don't miss politics.

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.

People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.

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

I've lived in Washington now for 44 years, and that's a lot of folly to witness up close. Whatever confidence and optimism I felt towards the central government when I got here on January 1, 1970 has pretty much dissipated at the hands of the government.

It will cost me some struggle to keep from despising the office-seeker.

If the Gods Wanted Us to Vote, They Would Have Given Us Better Candidates

I'm glad I can't vote.

I think people are just incredibly depressed and hopeless about the prospects for change.

I'm passionate about politics, but when it comes to political parties, I'm despondent. I'm disappointed at the absence of a sense of humanity and struggle to not become a cynic.

Politics in America is like stale bread. It's so yada yada that the best among us can hardly stand it.

I'm sick and tired of politics and politicians as usual.

I'm not cut out for politics.

I thought I was going to go into politics, but that became disheartening. You see that a lot of stuff doesn't get done, people walk around all self-important, and it's just depressing.

I don't vote and I don't follow who's trying to rule us. The revolution is coming. Until then, I'll just watch 'Game of Thrones.'

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

I've never been inspired by a politician in France, and I think a lot of my own generation think that way.

I have a certain sympathy with politicians having lived with one. I've seen how no matter how earnest or driven or energetic they are, it's still difficult to change things. I have been encouraged to go into politics, but I don't think I could make a contribution, it suits me better to be sniping from the sidelines.

You'll never change anything in this country through voting. Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

The thing that worries me more than anything else is losing faith in the capacity of politics to change things. I don't mean scepticism, criticism, querying, but I do mean cynicism.