Michelle Beadle Quotes

I'm sick and tired of politics and politicians as usual.

I may have grown cynical from long service, but this is a tendency I do not like, and I sometimes think I'd rather be a dog and bay at the moon than stay in the Senate another six years and listen to it.

To me the political game did not at all seem to answer the needs of the time.

People hate politicians. And I can understand why.

Voters seem to understand what a big waste of time trying to change Washington is.

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.

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.

The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless.

I find politicians globally are somewhat disappointing, not just in Ireland.

I would as soon go to live in a pen in a stockyard as into American politics

I think people are tired of politics as usual. We're tired of everything being scripted; we're tired of every comment being politically correct.

Politics in America is like stale bread. It's so yada yada that the best among us can hardly stand it.

I have a lot less faith in the system. You really don't understand how swampy it is until you get here.

I understand firsthand that Washington is broken.

The more I watch politicians in action, it just makes me angry.

The people of Alabama are fed up. They are tired of politicians who lie to them, and they are sick of elected officials who've been in Washington so long they've forgotten why they ran in the first place.

Politics is a waste of time.

I went to Washington several times at the request of different parties to talk about education reform. I used to always say I felt like I needed to take a shower after I left, because it was so partisan that I just really hated it.

Politics makes me sick.

The instinct of the Labour Party is if there's a problem, change the leader, then sit back, fold your arms and wait to be disappointed because they're sure it's not going to deliver.

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

Everyone I vote for never wins. Welcome to America.

The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.

I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.

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