Justin Trudeau Quotes

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

Don’t vote. it only encourages the bastards.

I've always been on the outside of all that political stuff so I just sort of watch it and I'm appalled and I think people should be screaming about a lot of things right now and they're not. They're just letting everything happen. I don't know. At some point the wheels are going to come off and we're going to have a real problem. The people are going to get angry and it's going to be too late.

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.

I never met a politician that I couldn’t take a poke at.

America is in trouble today not because her people have failed, but because her leaders have failed

History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians.

The overarching purpose of access to information legislation … is to facilitate democracy. It does so in two related ways. It helps to ensure first, that citizens have the information required to participate meaningfully in the democratic process, and secondly, that politicians and bureaucrats remain accountable to the citizenry.

If you believe in democracy, than you can't trash it by being cynical about the people who do democracy: the politicians.

Feinstein doesn't interact with the people at all, and I think it breeds cynicism.

I think that citizens should be skeptical of government power. But I fear it's bled over to cynicism. It is something that is getting in the way of reasoned discussion, and I'm very concerned about how to change that trend of cynicism.

I'm one of those old cynics that thinks, whoever you vote for, the government always gets in.

I wish I could renounce politics.

The more I watch politicians in action, it just makes me angry.

I have a sustained distrust for all politicians, even those with whom I agree on more issues than not.

I'm glad I can't vote.

I've never been inspired by a politician in France, and I think a lot of my own generation think that way.

I have a certain sympathy with politicians having lived with one. I've seen how no matter how earnest or driven or energetic they are, it's still difficult to change things. I have been encouraged to go into politics, but I don't think I could make a contribution, it suits me better to be sniping from the sidelines.

Our whole system of government is based on "We the people," but if we the people don't pay attention to what's going on, we have no right to bellyache or squawk when things go wrong.

What stuns me most about contemporary politics is not even that the system has been so badly corrupted by money. It is that so few people get the connection between their lives and what the bozos do in Washington and our state capitols.

We're going to make sure that the people who run for office and get elected are the ones who are going to work for the American people.

When people start to complain, "Voting doesn't matter," I'm like, the people of Wisconsin weren't boycotting and hitting the streets and blowing up those rooms because voting didn't change those situations for them. That was their livelihood. There's revolution going on all over the world because they actually can't have a voice.

We must face the bitter fact that we have forsaken our great dream of a life of, for, and by the people; that the burning passions and ideals of the American dream lie congealed by cold cynicism. Great parts of the masses of our people no longer believe that they have a voice or a hand in shaping the destiny of this nation. They have not forsaken democracy because of any desire or positive action of their own; they have been driven down into the depths of a great despair born of frustration, hopelessness, and apathy. A democracy lacking in popular participation dies of paralysis.

I don't know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians.