Political Cynicism Quotes

Politics is just show business for ugly people.

Always love your country - but never trust your government!

What makes us feel pessimistic about the world, ultimately, is the way the media encourage us to believe that our fate hangs on the every move of the promise-breaking, terminally disappointing Teflon liars in Washington.

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.

History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians.

After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.

Don’t vote. it only encourages the bastards.

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

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.

If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.

If he [Franklin Delano Roosevelt] became convinced tomorrow that coming out for cannibalism would get him the votes he so sorely needs, he would begin fattening a missionary on the White House backyard come Wednesday.

Politicians have no politics.

Our citizens do not know whom to believe, and many of them have concluded that all the processes of government have become so compromised that honest government has been rendered impossible.

People don't vote. Instinct tells them it's useless.

I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.

Donald Trump is a symptom, not a disease. The disease is the death of real political conservatism: a cool, intelligent reluctance to believe that all change is good, a love for the established, the particular, and the well-worn.

… only an empty political formula

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!

People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.

Trump might have a populist message that resonates with some voters, but the man doesn't care about any of the people he's appealing to.

After 1994, the public had the impression we Republicans overpromised and underdelivered.

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.

The newspapers, I perceive, devote some of their columns specially to politics or government without charge; and this, one would say, is all that saves it; but as I love literature and to some extent the truth also, I never read those columns at any rate. I do not wish to blunt my sense of right so much.

All politicians are bores and liars and fakes. I talk to people.

Politics has come to resemble a cynical team game played by politicians, while the public has been pushed aside as if sitting on the seats of a stadium in which passion for politics is gradually making room for blindness and desperation.