Carl Paladino Quotes

We have a government that, generally speaking, does not respond to the people.

If the President says, oh, Washington's got to change, and people are doubting whether my change can really happen, I think instead what the public's begun to see is the change they're seeing is not the change they voted for.

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

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

EMILY's List has worked a lot with swing women voters over the years, and one thing we've learned is that they are very cynical about politics and politicians. They very much want help with the challenges facing them and their families, and they feel like most politicians don't understand or want to lift a finger to help them out.

The Blair government has lowered the standing of politics and politicians in our country.

Nobody cares what any politician in Washington says.

People don't like politicians.

As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.

If you think the system - not you - but if your viewers think that the current political system is working well and serving the interest of our country, then what we're doing will not be attractive.

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

Never has the political class or the mainstream media that covers them been more out of touch with the American people than they are today.

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

The function of government is to provide you with service; the function of the media is to supply the Vaseline.

Our new government is now in full Operation, but how it will move or what will be the End of it I can scarcely conjecture. I am not yet in Love with it, & I doubt if I ever shall be

We enjoy bashing Congress because they are us.

By choice, polls validate the media’s filtered view of the world.

Look, the people will elect the government they think best.

In rural communities, people are upset with the government, upset with what they see as business as usual. They saw Obama as a change agent, and they saw Donald Trump as a change agent.

The disconnect between what people think and what the political leaders are actually doing is something that we really need to start raising.

I think all our leaders are utterly beneath us. You just watch 'Prime Minister's Questions' and go: 'How is this the best that we've got?'

There is a disconnect between Arkansas and Washington, D.C. The career politicians in Washington are not listening to people here in Arkansas, and this is the fundamental problem with politics.

I do think that Americans are poorly served by their media, at times extremely poorly served by their elected officials who are non responsive to majority feelings and cut off to a certain degree from the affairs of the world.

[For business after WWII ] democracy means getting people to regard government as an alien force that's robbing them and oppressing them, not as their government. In a democracy it would be your government.

Many politicians are far removed from their own electorates and continue to make the mistake of ignoring their voters' problems because they live in their own world.