Larry Hogan Quotes

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

I think people vote Ukip from a frustration with politics, which is legitimate, and which politicians have to listen to.

The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood.

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

The political class is becoming increasingly alien to the people.

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.

People are sick of the false choice between the established political parties who take voters for granted.

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

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 went through two pretty dark years being fed up with the system and frustrated with my own party after two disastrous elections in 2006 and 2008.

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

I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated.

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

People are tired of seeing politicians as all talk and no action.

What strikes me when I leave Washington is the extent to which there's a huge disconnect between Washington and the rest of the country. The rest of the country is not hyper partisan.

During my campaign, people of my age and younger said consistently that they would not vote because their votes simply no longer matter and because no government or member of Parliament cared a whit about their problems and their striving for employment.

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.

Populism has had as many incarnations as it has had provocations, but its constant ingredient has been resentment, and hence whininess. Populism does not wax in tranquil times; it is a cathartic response to serious problems. But it always wanes because it never seems serious as a solution.

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.

Politicians are so... detested; they don't actually walk amongst people now.

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.

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

If you think about what folks have been doing for 20 or 30 years, they have been bottling frustration and resentment that the political elites don't understand them, that the political elites don't care about them, that the political elites judge them in various ways. All Donald Trump does is provide the opposite of those things.