Matt Gonzalez Quotes

No wonder Americans hate politics when, year in and year out, they hear politicians make promises that won't come true because they don't even mean them -- campaign fantasies that win elections but don't get nations moving again.

Politicians make a lot of promises when they are campaigning, and they come to towns, and people get enthusiastic about them coming to their communities. And then they don't fulfill the promises.

I'm tired of politicians saying one thing to get elected and then going to Washington, D.C., or Denver or wherever and completely forgetting about you.

Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.

I've been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama - then candidate Obama - going through Iowa making promises. The gap between his promises and his performance is the largest I've seen, well, since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of 'til death do we part.

What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.

I've never met a politician I haven't wanted to walk away from, and I've yet to hear a politician speak and actually believe the words coming out of his mouth.

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

Almost every politician running for office comes out with a set of plans so that they can demonstrate how serious they are about fixing the state’s problems. But once the election is over and the candidate takes his or her oath, you rarely here a peep about those plans again. They end up on a shelf somewhere gathering dust.

I think politicians nationwide have earned a reputation sometimes that is very unfavorable because they will say things and then do something else when they get into office.

How long do politicians have to keep on promising heaven and delivering hell before people catch on and stop getting swept away by rhetoric?

Bull permeates everything.... American people think politics and politicians are full of baloney.

Americans are used to the clatter of campaign promises hitting ground as they are thrown out the window.

I haven't been in Washington long, but I have learned that it is a place filled with people who say one thing to get elected and do the opposite once they get there.

If you add up all the promises any politicians makes, the math doesn't work.

A lot of evangelicals have grown accustomed to feeling used by the political process. Every politician appeals to us, every one wants to hear us out during the campaign, but then things change once they get into office.

I don't believe there are heroes or saviours in politics.

I hate politics. What they say and what they do is completely different.

Politicians never keep all their promises.

Everyone I vote for never wins. Welcome to America.

I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.

President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch.

I'm not saying that all politicians are awful. I don't know any of them well enough to say whether they're awful or not. But almost every day, you find out something about them that's appalling. Maybe we shouldn't be surprised any longer.

So you know, I think that the federal government, the Democrats, and President Obama are selling a lot of hope and change, but no delivery of any of those promises.

Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected.