Daniel Pfeiffer Quotes

I kind of became apolitical.

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.

People feel politics isn't about their lives.

It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics.

I don't think that people are disinterested or uninterested in politics. I think very often they are disengaged from the formal political process. To some extent they are suspicious or even despairing of formal politics as a means to give expression and effect to what they want.

Just by making a decision to stay out of politics, you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it, if you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.

Very few [Americans] ... take an active part in politics, however interested they may be in public affairs.

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference and undernourishment.

Hopeless people do not vote. They don’t think that they can change anything anymore.

I am not going to participate in professional politics again.

The political graveyards are full of people who don't respond.

I wish I could renounce politics.

To the very limited extent that I have a political consciousness, to some extent I'm a lazy, apolitical sort of guy that just flits around.

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

If we give up on politics, we're done for. Powerlessness is a self-fulfilling prophesy.

I haven't been very active in politics.

I've never been disappointed by politicians. I've never invested that much in them in the first place.

I'm not involved in politics any more and they're quite right.

Young people, our rights and the things we care about, have been taken away because it doesn't really matter to the politicians whether or not we have them. We're just another demographic to try and please, but there's no point if we aren't voting.

I don't miss politics.

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.

I really don't have a lot of interest in national politics, and it's because I'm a skeptic. I think you can accomplish a lot more locally. I don't want to spin the wheels and not get anything done.

I wasn't interested in politics. My attitude about it was, I can't make a difference no matter what I do. And the truth is, I don't even care enough to try.

The idea of politics is just so uninteresting to me - I've never paid much attention to it. I don't believe things can really change. It doesn't matter who's president. Nothing really gets resolved. I don't know. I guess that's not the right attitude to take.

I hate government. I'm apolitical. Write that down. I'm not a Republican.