Kenneth Langone Quotes

Promising is not giving, but serves to content fools.

For years we have been giving their political leadership the benefit of the doubt, and now only doubt remains.

All my trust in the politicians had been rubbed away.

If you’ve ever been in politics, I don’t want to vote for you.

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

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

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

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

I'm not really a believer in romantic, happily-ever-after love stories.

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 don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the things that people do; disappointed in the things that people construct. I want things to be better all the time.

When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do.

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.

When I was young, I had a favorite movie star. One day, I saw one of his movies, and it was bad, and he was bad in it. I could tell he didn't care and only did it for the money. I felt betrayed. I never watched another one of his movies again.

I've never met a politician I haven't wanted to walk away from, and I've yet to hear a politician speak and actually believe the words coming out of his mouth.

Bull permeates everything.... American people think politics and politicians are full of baloney.

I entered Parliament with what I thought to be the lowest possible opinion of the average member. I came out with one still lower.

The world has not promised anything to anybody

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.

The expectation that 'Trump as president' will be starkly different from 'Trump as candidate' is a false hope at best.

It's unbearable to see the people betrayed time and again by politicians who don't keep their promises and by the technocrats at the European Union.

The indie movie world is like a bad Tinder date, and there are always strings attached.

I have a saddened and weakening attitude toward the media and press.