Vince Cable Quotes

The fundamental challenge is that people like me simply do not trust the federal government any longer.

You can't blame anyone for being cynical about politicians.

People don't like politicians.

We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany.

Nixon was the beginning of people not trusting politics.

Why is this government so insensitive to the concerns of the middle-class people?

This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.

Is there any wonder why we are in such big trouble? Any question why the people don't trust their government anymore, and demand a change?

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

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

I don't think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.

I've had a lot of disappointments. I think my biggest disappointment is the failure of elected officials to make good on their promises in regards to the environment or anything else, really. I have very little faith in politicians.

Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.

We’re blessed here in Florida with a group of politicians who for the most part are putzes.

Most people have a healthy disrespect for politicians.

Ethics and Washington DC. Are they mutually exclusive?

Frankly, I'm fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us about family values. Our families have values. But our government doesn’t.

I'm sick and tired of politics and politicians as usual.

Erosion of faith and trust in government - that is the real problem that confronts us.

Career politicians in D.C. have shirked their responsibility to us for decades. At every turn, they've kicked the can down the road, pushing the burdens of our problems and our debts onto our children and grandchildren.

I think anyone who serves in public office should have a little bit of contempt for government in their heart.

People have completely lost confidence in our public officials in Jefferson City.

The people of Alabama are fed up. They are tired of politicians who lie to them, and they are sick of elected officials who've been in Washington so long they've forgotten why they ran in the first place.

It's not a secret that we have a crisis in confidence in public institutions in our country.

The reality is I believe there has never been in the history of our White House such an unscrupulous pair as what I witnessed in this White House.