Gladys Berejiklian Quotes

People hate politicians. And I can understand why.

I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them.

Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country-and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.

One of the reasons people feel so alienated from the American political process is in the fights we get in here in Washington, no one's ever talking about them and the challenges they're going through.

People are very upset with Washington. They're upset with Democrats. They're upset with Republicans. They're upset with the establishment.

People don't have any confidence in Jefferson City. There's incredible anger in the political establishment, and one of the reasons is special interests dominate the Capitol in our state.

The problem is, the Republican Party hasn't done anything to make this country better and I speak as a Republican.

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

I can personally testify that American politics have taken a distinctly downward turn in the space of one mature lifetime.

We live at a time when people do not have much trust in government.

“The American people... are tired of the politics of personal destruction

What bothers me the most are the Republicans and the Democrats: they act like little kids. They are lying to real people out here trying to get through life.

We do have our challenges. Some things don't always work right in Washington, and the anger you see from the electorate, I think, is a reflection of what's not working right.

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

After 24 years in Washington, Senator Collins has become part of that broken system, putting special interests and her political party first. And Mainers know it and feel it.

I just think people are fed up with people who are career politicians who don't stand for anything.

This world is always fed up with politicians.

I think that people on both sides of the aisle are rejecting what's going on with Washington and the establishment.

People have decided that career politicians may be part of the problem, not part of the solution.

Then you get to the last half of the 20th century, Americans are getting very skeptical about their leaders and their institutions, and another place that is affected is parties and conventions.

Americans have grown impatient with the relentless politicizing of every area of life.

There's a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there's so much angst across the country.

If career politicians had the solutions, we wouldn't be in the mess that we are.

Political discourse has become so rotten that it's no longer possible to tell the stench of one presidential candidate from the stink of another.

People don't like politicians.