Cindy Sheehan Quotes

Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust.

All disgust is originally disgust at touching.

Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America.

Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement.

Politics ruins the character.

Reagan and Bush... made the world safe for hypocrisy.

Anything done [in politics] is all right unless you get caught.

He's a politician. That's a notch below child molester.

President [George W.] Bush is a liar. He betrayed Nevada and he betrayed the country... All Americans should be concerned, not just because he lied to me or the people of Nevada and indeed all Americans, but because the President's decision threatens Americans' lives.

'Scandal' has always lived in this dark place with this idea that Washington is filled with this underbelly of monsters, that if the real world understood how dark, twisted and corrupt it really was, they would never agree with our government or want to be part of it. It's been kind of fun to live in that world. It felt like a fictional world.

In Indian politics, deception seems a byword. I'll have none of that.

It was a nasty look. It made me feel as if I were something the dog had brought in and intended to bury later on, when he had time.

All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spitoons.

Politics has become beyond acceptable when it comes to humanity. People are just frozen in falsehood.

I am angry when I hear things like Cheney whispering into Bush's ear on the way to Obama's inauguration to ask him to pardon 'Scooter' Libby and not to 'leave a soldier on the battlefield'. What kind of metaphor is that for his petty partisan views, when you have men and women giving the ultimate sacrifice? I have nothing but contempt.

Let the record reflect: the American people are a bunch of suckers.

This is what life is like with the Clintons. It is one scandal after another, and you never know what's coming next. They use the system to enrich themselves.

It's unbearable to see the people betrayed time and again by politicians who don't keep their promises and by the technocrats at the European Union.

I'm a gross human being.

Anyone in a position of power is either corrupt or assumed to be corrupt, and the assumption of corruption is as bad as the reality of it.

The AICC is full of sycophants, nothing else.

We used to fight for democracy. Democracy used to matter. We now treat it with contempt. We have turned our backs on values that we built up over hundreds of years, for the benefit of politicians in Europe. To me, that is heartbreaking.

We pride ourselves on our democracy, but when you see the way it actually works, I think it is worthy of contempt.

That's a compliment reserved only for politicians. You never hear someone say, 'You know what I love about my accountant? He's just a normal guy.' That's how low the bar is for people in politics.

I hate politics. Absolutely hate them.