Jack Germond Quotes

I don't miss politics.

Voting for Romney after the train wreck of that was the eight years of W. Bush is like losing your pay check playing a rigged game of three-card monte and then playing the same game again a week later 'cause the cards are a different color.

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

I think people are just really disappointed, disappointed with Blair as well, who's just like Bush's lapdog. I think everyone's just disillusioned with politics in our country, and it must be the same in your country.

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

I wish I could renounce politics.

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.

In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I believe that in twelve years, we'll be voting for plants.

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.

In the 2000 election, George W. Bush, who had shirked military service, succeeded in presenting himself as more reliable on national security than Al Gore.

It's a big deal for me to say I'm over politics.

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.

In 2004, I joined my father, John Kerry, on the trail in his bid for the United States presidency.

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.

After many, many years, I fell out of love with politics. It's not something I like but it's the truth.

I'm voting for Gore because the other is unthinkable. Which most of us will probably do. I hope all of us. I've always liked Ralph Nader and would like to see a real third party, but the thought of George Bush as president is unthinkable.

It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job.

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

I'm not disillusioned with Clinton. I never had any illusions.

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

Americans expect too much of politics.

I voted for George W. Bush, but we’ve lost our way.

The democracy gap in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the least worst every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the least worst gets worse.

If the Supreme Court hadn’t tampered with the election, Al Gore would now be President, George W. Bush would be back in Texas, and John Ashcroft would be back to reading Southern Magazine

I can't comment on what every single presidential candidate is saying or doing.