Marco Rubio Quotes

Now, the political class tries to make sense of all of this, but they can't, because never has the political class or the mainstream media that covers them been more out of touch with the American people than they are today.

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.

There's a great public disinclination toward politicians.

People hate politicians. And I can understand why.

It's been a concern of mine for years that the mainstream media coverage of culture and politics takes place in two nodes, Washington and New York, and yet all the voting goes on somewhere else.

Nobody cares what any politician in Washington says.

We have a government that, generally speaking, does not respond to the people.

When Bush first got elected, the very first time there was talk of going to war with Iraq, the mainstream media gave his position total credibility. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now.

The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.

I wish the Libertarian Party would get more play in the media but they don't.

The people are way ahead of the Congress. They are way ahead of the administration.

The political class is becoming increasingly alien to the people.

Only one in 10 Americans trusts the federal government to do the right thing most or all of the time. Approval of state and local government is even less in many parts of the country.

One of the more urp-making habits of media mavens is presuming to speak for the American people, as in 'The American people won't stand for this!'

When you have a party leadership that is out of touch with the rest of the country, then that's a real problem for the entire party.

The disconnect between what people think and what the political leaders are actually doing is something that we really need to start raising.

Governments do not care about your Facebook-assembled opinion. Incompetent politicians don't read your tweets; there are reasons for them being out of touch. Change does not come about for 'likes' on a page, though the ideas for it may start there.

I think there are some people in Washington who are pretty out of step with what people want, certainly what Minnesotans want.

I do think that Americans are poorly served by their media, at times extremely poorly served by their elected officials who are non responsive to majority feelings and cut off to a certain degree from the affairs of the world.

There are millions of people fed up with this daily diet of drivel from the Drive-By Media. But the media thinks everybody in America is waiting with bated breath for Trump to be convicted. They're totally, totally out of touch. The disconnect between everything going on in Washington and the real country has never been wider.

I think the big lesson to the political class is stop listening so much to each other, and start listening to the people.

So, you know, I actually don't think it's going to be that hard to spread the message to people that their leadership - not alone John Cornyn, but including John Cornyn in a big way - is failing us.

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?'

Too many of the career politicians, the established politicians in Washington on both sides of the aisle, are representing their party more than the people. And no matter what the media says, the ballot box will determine what people truly believe.

When we ignore the will of the people, people lose.