Harold Pinter Quotes

I'm not a political person. When I start to get into it, it just upsets me. I feel so powerless when it comes to politics. So I've just decided to be non-political and very, very pro-soldier.

There are many young Americans that are very distant from our political process.

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.

A lot of people in America and Europe feel that their governments are not representing them very much.

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.

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

I don't know what the problem with Capitol is. Some one's got to wake 'em up. Prod 'em a little bit.

People are tired of seeing politicians as all talk and no action.

The problem is, the Republican Party hasn't done anything to make this country better and I speak as a Republican.

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.

I think people are just really disappointed, disappointed with Blair as well, who's just like Bush's lapdog. I think everyone's just disillusioned with politics in our country, and it must be the same in your country.

Cynicism, disgust and apathy are really intelligent responses to the state of American politics.

I have no more gifts for politics than a cow has for fox hunting, and I’m not interested in it… personally I’ve never voted and do not intend to.

[Describing "political alienation:" The feeling that politics is a racket for a few insiders and is meaningless to the rest of the people.

Many of you are disillusioned with the performance of this and past governments, and with the unkept promises. But we have to understand that we cannot manage without these reforms.

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

I think there's such disgust and frustration because of Trump that people see me as the vessel for that frustration. They see me as the person who can give voice to what they're feeling.

I don't even know what the issues are. I haven't paid attention to politics in a long time. It's actually not something that I really even enjoy. It's way off my radar.

Americans like to say we're fighting for democracy, and yet young Americans have come to the view that democracy doesn't deliver.

'I can't get no satisfaction,' in political terms, has haunted Hungarian politics for 20 years.

People are sick of the false choice between the established political parties who take voters for granted.

People like me have to stay away from politics.

I think all our leaders are utterly beneath us. You just watch 'Prime Minister's Questions' and go: 'How is this the best that we've got?'

It's not always easy to be proud of your government.

I worry that, given the way the 2016 election went, how cynical and how terrible politics seems, that young people will be less likely to get involved.