DeRay Mckesson Quotes

You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government.

There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them.

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.

Public trust in both government and corporations is low, and deservedly so.

What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises.

Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.

It's unbearable to see the people betrayed time and again by politicians who don't keep their promises and by the technocrats at the European Union.

If you hang around politics long enough, you tend to get disappointed by people.

Any leaders who disappoint the people, ideals and promises by which they were appointed are by definition themselves dis-appointed.

I've been giving out chances every time and all you do is let me down.

You play a couple of shows, and these label guys come - and they leave halfway through a show. Then the phone calls just stop. And your heart is broken.

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.

If somebody says they are going to do something - and then later they don't - it affects me a lot, and I lose confidence in them.

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

I don't like being disappointed by somebody I trust. Fortunately, it rarely happens.

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

It is a tragedy indeed that new generations, taking office, attribute failures in governance to insufficient power, and seek more of it.

Our representatives are betrayers of the people.

Palestinians are painfully aware that their government is rife with corruption.

For years we have been giving their political leadership the benefit of the doubt, and now only doubt remains.

What does that mean for a society, for a democracy, when the people that you elect on the basis of promises can basically suborn the will of the electorate?

The State of Alabama let me down tremendously.

Everyone who signed us to Epic, all of the people we trusted there, were let go.

You know when you go into your pocket and feel another hand in there? Well, that's Premier Kathleen Wynne.