Donald Trump Jr. Quotes

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.

Westminster's hardly a billboard for people-centred politics. Given its makeup, the term 'Commons' is pretty ironic, too.

People feel politics isn't about their lives.

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

The Tory Party only talks to Brexiteers. It almost demonises... It comes across as dismissive of those who are not.

As soon as you know that someone is running for office, it puts a distance between you and that person.

I just feel abandoned. And I feel, I don't feel represented by the Republican Party. I have always had to defend the social side of the Republican Party by saying that it's not the majority, that it's not their focus, when everything suggests just the opposite.

This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.

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.

Politically active people felt more and more disenfranchised, particularly during the ultra-New Labour years.

By confirming the importance of politics and politicians in Britain, we can build from the bottom up and begin to reverse the worrying anti-politics trend, which will empower the elite technocrats and leave defenceless the man or woman in the street with a mere vote to cast.

Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him.

Washington, D.C. is not on the side of mainstream and main street America.

There are two Americas: Washington and the rest of us.

Now, the political class tries to make sense of all of this, but they can't, because 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.

That's one of the biggest issues that we see in the question of governments right now, I think, in the Western world. Is that increasingly all of our elected officials are pulled from the same class. These aren't normal people. I don't want to say they're all terrible people, but at the same time, they're not like you and me. These are people who have sort of a nine to five working history.

…ruling elites in many liberal societies and especially the United States, where money and special interests have created a corrupt political class that is out-of-touch with ordinary people, interested mostly in enriching themselves, and immune to accountability.

Washington is totally out of touch with mainstream America.

People are starting to notice the great divide. The Tea party sees the aloofness in a political elite that thinks it knows best and orders the rest of America to fall in line. The Occupy movement sees it in an economic elite that lives in mansions and flies on private jets.

The bottom line is, there're a lot of conservatives that don't feel Donald Trump is conservative, right? Or, he's not their brand of conservatism... and there's a lot of people who don't have a seat on the inside who used to have a seat on the inside.

Politics is tricky for me. For most of my life, I didn't think it applied to me.

I believe that both Obama and Trump would describe themselves as outsiders.

Feinstein doesn't interact with the people at all, and I think it breeds cynicism.

I met a person on my rural tour in northwest Wisconsin who said to me, 'I feel politically homeless.' And we need to re-engage that person.

I really feel like we have drifted too far away from real America.