Louie Gohmert Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

The pure unadulterated disgust of Washington seems to me to be a really good thing.

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

Nobody cares what any politician in Washington says.

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.

A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Like most thoughtful people who watch what's going on in Washington, venting is very necessary.

I've lived in Washington now for 44 years, and that's a lot of folly to witness up close. Whatever confidence and optimism I felt towards the central government when I got here on January 1, 1970 has pretty much dissipated at the hands of the government.

Bull permeates everything.... American people think politics and politicians are full of baloney.

I'm not disillusioned with Clinton. I never had any illusions.

Americans expect too much of politics.

All my trust in the politicians had been rubbed away.

I wish I could renounce politics.

The thing that worries me more than anything else is losing faith in the capacity of politics to change things. I don't mean scepticism, criticism, querying, but I do mean cynicism.

There's a great public disinclination toward politicians.

What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house.

I think that the worst form of naivete can be extreme cynicism. If you think that nobody comes to Washington to do any good whatsoever, that is almost as bad as being starry-eyed and thinking that they are all here to advance democracy.

I don't know if the average person really has faith in Washington anymore.

I mean, it's pretty disillusioning for all of us right now, and we feel pretty helpless when Congress, their approval rating is thirteen percent, and across the board, whether you're a Democrat or a Republican, you sort of want to walk in and fire everybody.

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

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.