Hamilton Jordan Quotes

I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.

In every country, politics is considered to be a waste of time.

Most of what we report from Congress they don't care about unless it affects them directly.

If I was a politician right now I would change just about everything.

If everybody just stops caring about politics, we're going to lose the reins on our government.

It's one thing to have a president with whose politics you disagree; it's another to have a president who doesn't even seem to care about your welfare.

I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

I want the Congress that really is going to listen to the people. I really don't care what party it is anymore.

I liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues.

People feel politics isn't about their lives.

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.

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

Congress is full of good, decent, smart people who have devoted their lives to public service.

I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.

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

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.

I long for the day when there are things I feel strongly about politically.

I'm running for senator because it's time for a change.

You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?

People are fed up with the career politicians who created this mess or failed to prevent it and neither was acceptable, and the only way we could change that was by sending a different type of person to Washington.

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.

I think the media has been in denial just like the party regulars have been in denial. They just don't understand that the government that we have today is not what the people want as a government.

Public perception of the Westminster arena, with all its posturings, does little to engender a sense of voter belief.

Politicians are a lot like diapers. They should be changed frequently and for the same reason.