Rupert Sheldrake Quotes

I'm political in the sense that there's much to be done, but I'm apolitical in the sense that I don't think there's a party that represents anything I believe in.

I just feel abandoned. And I feel, I don't feel represented by the Republican Party. I have always had to defend the social side of the Republican Party by saying that it's not the majority, that it's not their focus, when everything suggests just the opposite.

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.

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.

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

One of the reasons people feel so alienated from the American political process is in the fights we get in here in Washington, no one's ever talking about them and the challenges they're going through.

I think people vote Ukip from a frustration with politics, which is legitimate, and which politicians have to listen to.

People are sick of the false choice between the established political parties who take voters for granted.

A lot of people in America and Europe feel that their governments are not representing them very much.

I've voted in every election - not always for the same political party and never with any degree of enthusiasm.

I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am president the less of a party man I seem to become.

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

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.

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

Politically active people felt more and more disenfranchised, particularly during the ultra-New Labour years.

Am I a liberal or conservative? I'm neither. Like most Americans, I find politics very frustrating. Like most Americans, I'd like to hear from politicians the facts. That is what drives me.

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

Americans expect too much of politics.

Hopeless people do not vote. They don’t think that they can change anything anymore.

We all know that an angry electorate is a voting electorate.

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.

In some communities, I show up, and they say, 'Well, we haven't seen our Democrat congressman in 10 years.'

There's a total separation between the federal government and the people. So running for president was an attempt on my part to get people to care enough to go vote. But people just don't bother. And that's why it's not working.

What I see is that the Democratic Party takes working class communities for granted, they take people of color for granted, and they just assume that we're going to turn out no matter how bland or half-stepping these proposals are.

Americans like to say we're fighting for democracy, and yet young Americans have come to the view that democracy doesn't deliver.