Michael Beschloss Quotes

A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Most Americans will let liberals and conservatives play their games because most Americans don't pay attention.

Obama ran as sane and decent, as though we were electing a mood, and not necessarily a set of policies. Unfortunately, Obama has governed the same way - and misread the mood, which is all there is, really, because being crazy and stupid is all we're really good at politically any more.

People don't trust party leaders.

The Blair government has lowered the standing of politics and politicians in our country.

Politics itself is not sacred any more.

If the Republicans think that by having stated and even achieved most of the Contract that they are therefore entitled to the acceptance and favor of the American voter, they're crazy.

What makes me worry today is the alarming decline in the trust in democratic institutions - political parties, Parliaments, political leaders. Less and less people are going to the polls in most advanced democracies.

The mistrust of government that blossomed in the late '60s has become a chronic and in some ways pathological condition.

What strikes me when I leave Washington is the extent to which there's a huge disconnect between Washington and the rest of the country. The rest of the country is not hyper partisan.

I mean, it's pretty disillusioning for all of us right now, and we feel pretty helpless when Congress, their approval rating is thirteen percent, and across the board, whether you're a Democrat or a Republican, you sort of want to walk in and fire everybody.

Like most Americans, I feel disgusted when we see people make decisions based on party politics rather than a solution that is best for the country.

Americans expect too much of politics.

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.

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

People are sick of the false choice between the established political parties who take voters for granted.

Trump is playing to an audience of people who think of themselves less as Republicans and more as Americans - moderates, conservatives, and independents - who feel that the Republican Party has completely ignored their priorities and beliefs and insulted them along the way.

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

There's a great public disinclination toward politicians.

I loathe all political parties, which I regard as inventions of the devil. My favourite prime minister was Sir Alec Douglas-Home, not because he was on the Right, but because he spent a year in office without, on his own admission, doing a damned thing.

People hate politicians. And I can understand why.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

The people we elect aren't bipartisan. The American public is bipartisan.

The polarization of Congress; the decline of civility; and the rise of attack politics in the 1980s, the 1990s, and the early years of the new century are a blot on our political system and a disservice to the American people.

Obama is a guy who claims to be unaware that there was a Tea Party, a guy that's detached from the country.