Rand Paul Quotes

As constituents, we've become lazy in terms of what we want and how to get it. If we, as a constituency, don't like what Congress is doing, but 90 percent of incumbents get reelected every year, that's a problem.

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

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

There's a total separation between the federal government and the people. So running for president was an attempt on my part to get people to care enough to go vote. But people just don't bother. And that's why it's not working.

What I see is that the Democratic Party takes working class communities for granted, they take people of color for granted, and they just assume that we're going to turn out no matter how bland or half-stepping these proposals are.

I'm not a political guy; I really don't care a lot about politics. I never have and probably never will.

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 felt disconnected from the decisions made in Washington and, to be honest, really didn't think my vote mattered because I didn't have a direct line of sight from my vote to a result.

The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.

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.

Gen Y is depicted as self-centred and apathetic when it comes to politics, but it doesn't help that we are largely overlooked. There have been policies to woo parents, pensioners and the sick, but the young do not appear to rank high on any political agenda.

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.

Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.

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

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

A growing number of people in this country do not believe that it makes a real difference who is elected President of the United States.

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

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.

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

I'm political in the sense that there's much to be done, but I'm apolitical in the sense that I don't think there's a party that represents anything I believe in.

Millions of people feel ignored by the political establishment.

I was born and brought up in south east London and been very conscious for a long time that people feel politics happens to them and not with them.

Many politicians are far removed from their own electorates and continue to make the mistake of ignoring their voters' problems because they live in their own world.

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

For too long, I think the African-American community has been taken for granted by one party and completely ignored by the other. It is not acceptable. It's not good for the parties, for the country, or for the community.