Norman Mailer Quotes

Nobody cares what any politician in Washington says.

I don't feel any warmth towards politics. I'm with the forever opposition party.

I think people are so disillusioned with the parties. It's one party with two different names, and they are so spineless.

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.

I don't fancy myself a political commentator. I hate politics. I hate it.

I have to say that when I was young, when any politician was talking I wasn't even interested. Maybe they were saying some nice stuff, but then if you put Michael Jordan on TV, I was interested!

There are many young Americans that are very distant from our political process.

The idea of politics is just so uninteresting to me - I've never paid much attention to it. I don't believe things can really change. It doesn't matter who's president. Nothing really gets resolved. I don't know. I guess that's not the right attitude to take.

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.

I have no more gifts for politics than a cow has for fox hunting, and I’m not interested in it… personally I’ve never voted and do not intend to.

[Describing "political alienation:" The feeling that politics is a racket for a few insiders and is meaningless to the rest of the people.

Turning politics into a spectator sport is one of the subtle processes which supports globalization. It converts or transforms the citizen from an actor to a spectator, with illusions of participation.

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

I'm not cut out for politics.

I wish I could renounce politics.

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

I view the United States, today, much like East Berlin. And I'm off the grid. I've tried for 20 years to warn the country about the Democrats and Republicans, and nobody's listening.

Where are the young people today? Why are they allowing some of the things that are happening in their country? I am really upset about that. I feel that they are burying their heads in the sand of electronic games and television. They don't want to know. Maybe they realize that their yuppie parents who protested Vietnam have turned on their ideals and are now struggling to buy a Lexus or whatever. These kids don't know what to revolt against, so they just completely ignore it, which is a very frightening thing.

We are making politics a spectator sport in which our only duty is to vote somebody into office and then retire to the grandstands.

I don't have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.

Politics is a waste of time.

I've always been on the outside of all that political stuff so I just sort of watch it and I'm appalled and I think people should be screaming about a lot of things right now and they're not. They're just letting everything happen. I don't know. At some point the wheels are going to come off and we're going to have a real problem. The people are going to get angry and it's going to be too late.

I think the reason you see so many people dropping out of politics is because there's an anti-poetic strain in modern political discourse.

Voting really doesn't mean anything. I wish I could say something different, but I think it's kind of a sham.

I think that idealism is always there in America. It's a spirit that's been subverted lately, and sold down the river to the contractors, what with the privatizing of all aspects of the government. It's so cold and cynical - all dollars and cents and parcel it up and sell it out and downgrade it and outsource it. They don't consider what it does to people. I think the spirit of this country is finally coming back, and hopefully it will triumph.