Russell Howard Quotes

I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them.

I do vote but I don't think that any political party represents my point of view.

Many of you are disillusioned with the performance of this and past governments, and with the unkept promises. But we have to understand that we cannot manage without these reforms.

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.

People are so frustrated by electing people to represent them in Washington, D.C., and having them immediately forget about the Hoosiers they represent.

I was talking to Marylanders... What we were hearing, everywhere, was an overwhelming sense of frustration. People felt a huge disconnect between Annapolis and the rest of Maryland.

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

People hate politicians. And I can understand why.

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.

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

I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.

I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.

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

People are fed up with the career politicians who created this mess or failed to prevent it and neither was acceptable, and the only way we could change that was by sending a different type of person to Washington.

Politics has come to resemble a cynical team game played by politicians, while the public has been pushed aside as if sitting on the seats of a stadium in which passion for politics is gradually making room for blindness and desperation.

I think the media has been in denial just like the party regulars have been in denial. They just don't understand that the government that we have today is not what the people want as a government.

Public perception of the Westminster arena, with all its posturings, does little to engender a sense of voter belief.

I think politicians are so far out of step with what people really want.

Politics, as a body, has failed the people.

We’re blessed here in Florida with a group of politicians who for the most part are putzes.

A politician is an arse upon which every one has sat except a man.

It's not always easy to be proud of your government.

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.

In the absence of specific solutions or evidence that we have people in Washington, D.C., who can make a significant difference... people will cling to those who at least speak to their frustrations.