George F. Will Quotes

I went through two pretty dark years being fed up with the system and frustrated with my own party after two disastrous elections in 2006 and 2008.

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

I think people vote Ukip from a frustration with politics, which is legitimate, and which politicians have to listen to.

Brexit was not a coup. Far from it. In the eyes of most analysts, it was a clear sign that people are frustrated and fed up with the status quo; this is particularly the case with independent voters.

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

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

I can't really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.

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.

I don't feel any warmth towards politics. I'm with the forever opposition party.

If you think about what folks have been doing for 20 or 30 years, they have been bottling frustration and resentment that the political elites don't understand them, that the political elites don't care about them, that the political elites judge them in various ways. All Donald Trump does is provide the opposite of those things.

I wish I could renounce politics.

I'm out of the Republican Party. I'm fed up.

People don't trust party leaders.

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

I was a member of the Nationalist Party for several years. I don't remember how long. Those were very dreary days, because the Nationalist Party... it's hard to describe what it was. I suppose it held on to some kind of little faith, you know? It wasn't even sure what the faith was, and it was a very despised enterprise by everybody.

I quit politics because I hated it.

You know, the cynicism that is in the politics, it is not for my soul. It makes me - out of me, an extremely bitter, cynical person that I hate to see in the mirror, really.

People are not in a good mood when any politician's face appears on television.

The mistrust of government that blossomed in the late '60s has become a chronic and in some ways pathological condition.

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

I may have grown cynical from long service, but this is a tendency I do not like, and I sometimes think I'd rather be a dog and bay at the moon than stay in the Senate another six years and listen to it.

Americans expect too much of politics.

People in Israel are sick and tired of the old politics.

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

I told Donald Trump, 'This isn't a campaign, this is a movement.' Look at what's happening. The American people are not happy with their government.