Stuart Rothenberg Quotes

Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?

I do vote but I don't think that any political party represents my point of view.

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

We enjoy bashing Congress because they are us.

I can't vote my own convictions on civil rights. If I did, I wouldn't be returned to the Senate. It's as simple as that.

The midterms are a chance for people to vote out those they believe are failing to address the concerns of citizens.

The American people are growing extremely unhappy with establishment politics, with establishment economics, and you know what else? Even with establishment media.

You know what? I think the American people are a little pissed, and I think they're pissed at both parties - I think they're really pissed at both parties - and it will be reflected during election time.

We are constantly bemoaning that we have two nominees, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, who are when you put them together as unpopular a duo as we have ever had in our kind of Final Two for the presidency. There are reasons for that, regardless of who ends up winning and going into the White House, I think we need to take dig, those of us in the media, because we're the ones who can foster these discussion and ask the question what is it about the system that got us to a point where most of the people heading to the polls are holding their nose as they cast their vote?

BEFORE YOU JUMP OFF A BRIDGE OR HANG YOURSELF OR BE UNHAPPY PLEASE CONSIDER: LIVE FOR YOURSELF; THOSE WHO HATE YOU HAVE NO PURCHASE

Without religion the highest endowments of intellect can only render the possessor more dangerous if he be ill disposed; if well disposed, only more unhappy.

I always feel that if you're gonna be uncomfortable and unhappy in something, just because you think it's in or it's chic, I would advise you to be happy rather than well-dressed. It's better to be happy.

If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them.

She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.

I guess politicians can be excused for thinking the electorate is stupid because they keep winning reelection. If you were Barbara Boxer or Harry Reid and you kept being reelected, you'd have to think, 'Half of my state is stupid.' But then you wouldn't be smart enough to think that if you had their brains.

Her education only made her unhappy thinking about it - that no matter how much she changed her life, she could not change the world that surrounded her.

The problem with life is, we often do things that will ultimately be self-destructive and make us unhappy, yet in that moment it seems like the best idea in the world. You have to be careful of moments - they're tricksy things.

In youth alone, unhappy mortals live; But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive: Discolour'd sickness, anxious labour, come, And age, and death's inexorable doom.

Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.

When you are suffering, when you are unhappy, stay totally with what is Now. Unhappiness or problems cannot survive in the Now.

If you believe that a given situation should make you unhappy, then it will, and the unhappiness will then reinforce the condition.

Unhappy, but not unhappy enough.

In a two-party system, if both parties ignore public opinion, there is no place voters can turn.

If you have to go through life being unhappy to conform to society around you, that's not a very good deal.

The man who is unhappy will, as a rule, adopt an unhappy creed, while the man who is happy will adopt a happy creed; each may attribute his happiness or unhappiness to his beliefs, while the real causation is the other way round.