Matt Drudge Quotes

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.

You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can only make a monkey out of the voters every four years!

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

People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.

Voters are naturally suspicious of politicians.

These are the three main diseases of this country, sir: typhoid, cholera, and election fever. This last one is the worst; it makes people talk and talk about things that they have no say in ... Would they do it this time? Would they beat the Great Socialist and win the elections? Had they raised enough money of their own, and bribed enough policemen, and bought enough fingerprints of their own, to win? Like eunuchs discussing the Kama Sutra, the voters discuss the elections in Laxmangarh.

People hate politicians. And I can understand why.

We have for the past year and undoubtedly will be for the next year, dealing with an electorate that is more alienated and more cynical than at any point in modern time.

Voters seem to understand what a big waste of time trying to change Washington is.

After believing in promises made and never fulfilled by Labour, people have become increasingly disenchanted with the process assuming that all politicians will say anything to gain power, and then never follow through.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

I probably owe my political dismay to New Labour, but also my growing sense that the satirical shape of human affairs is international and historical, not glued to the tawdry ambitions of a team of politicians who represent nothing but themselves.

The American people are sick and tired of this 'lesser evil' garbage they get fed every election year. Both the Democrats and the Republicans do the same evils once they're in office.

I think there is a break down of trust generally, between people and politicians. I think that's come about for a whole variety of reasons.

Its easy to view politicians as corrupt and voting essentially an act of picking the lesser of two evils. I understand that perspective and feel it's valid.

The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself. All we need is one more liar.

People don't believe that any politician is any different from any other one.

I grew up in Ireland, so I do not have a lot of respect for most politicians.

You would like me to say that the veil will be ripped from the voters' eyes sometime between now and November, thereby restoring the proper version of Democracy to the House and Senate. I won't say that, of course. The simple reason is, I don't know.

The political satirist usually votes against their own interests, but the bottom line is that it doesn't really matter.

I don't like politicians, and I don't like politics. I definitely don't want to be associated with any of them.

What has happened to our society that politicians are not looked up to and have the influence that they used to.

Of course, in my country most political leaders are really, well, I suppose I think of them as being, well, not gangsters but more or less the same kind of thing, no? I mean—people who go in for getting elected. What can you expect of a man like that?

The Senate is no longer a place for any decent man. I am truly sick of Congress.

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