Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

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

All my trust in the politicians had been rubbed away.

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

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

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.

It is true what is said in Washington - 'No matter how cynical you get, it's never enough to catch up.'

I'm not saying that all politicians are awful. I don't know any of them well enough to say whether they're awful or not. But almost every day, you find out something about them that's appalling. Maybe we shouldn't be surprised any longer.

I've never met a politician I haven't wanted to walk away from, and I've yet to hear a politician speak and actually believe the words coming out of his mouth.

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

If you’ve ever been in politics, I don’t want to vote for you.

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

I thought I was going to go into politics, but that became disheartening. You see that a lot of stuff doesn't get done, people walk around all self-important, and it's just depressing.

If you hang around politics long enough, you tend to get disappointed by people.

It is hard to write about politicians, see them at such close range, and still think of any of them as heroes.

Politics is a waste of time.

That public men publish falsehoods Is nothing new. That America must accept Like the historical republics corruption and empire Has been known for years. Be angry at the sun for setting If these things anger you.

People often say that Trump "speaks the truth," right? But I think what really is happening is he's become a symbol of the kind of cynicism the American public feels towards politicians. He embodies, and he's mobilizing, that cynicism. Because people have no faith in politics anymore. People actually believe that politics is dead, because it's bought and sold.

Politics makes me sick.

With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.

I don't believe there are heroes or saviours in politics.

I hate politics. What they say and what they do is completely different.

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

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 probably owe my political dismay to New Labour, but also my growing sense that the satirical shape of human affairs is international and historical, not glued to the tawdry ambitions of a team of politicians who represent nothing but themselves.

I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.