Political Disconnection Quotes

I didn’t leave the Democratic Party. The party left me.

...nations have no command over their governments, & in fact no influence over them, except of a fleeting & rather ineffectual sort.

I'm not involved in politics any more and they're quite right.

I have no more gifts for politics than a cow has for fox hunting, and I’m not interested in it… personally I’ve never voted and do not intend to.

Cynicism, disgust and apathy are really intelligent responses to the state of American politics.

The connection has been lost between the country's direction, especially with regard to the way in which the economy has been run, and the citizen.

It was clear, for example, in 1988 that the political process had already become perilously remote from the electorate it was meant to represent.

The Republican Party does not reach out.

I love Vice President Biden, let's make this clear. But we do need somebody that is going to reconnect with the heart and soul of everyday Americans in this country. The Democrats failed on that. And we can place blame on everybody else that we want to. But the bottom line is you can both love this party and critique this party.

For me, being with Obama or having dinner with Bill Clinton... it's crazy. It's mind-blowing, because where I come from is just another world. We were just ignored by politicians - by America in general.

I don't feel any warmth towards politics. I'm with the forever opposition party.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

I don't know much about politics, and I don't want to know. That's why I rarely involve myself in politics.

When I first started campaigning to become an MP in 2004, we were suffering as a party because our hierarchy and leadership were totally detached from the party's membership.

Politics was never in our blood and in our family... I will never return to it.

[Describing "political alienation:" The feeling that politics is a racket for a few insiders and is meaningless to the rest of the people.

We certainly cannot have any further political connection with the Whigs of the South; they have rendered such connection impossible. An impassable gulf separates us, and must here-after separate us.

With nearly two years remaining in his presidency, George W. Bush is alone. In half a century, I have not seen a president so isolated from his own party in Congress - not Jimmy Carter, not even Richard Nixon as he faced impeachment. Republicans in Congress do not trust their president to protect them.

People feel politics isn't about their lives.

I don't even know what the issues are. I haven't paid attention to politics in a long time. It's actually not something that I really even enjoy. It's way off my radar.

I grew up in a nonpolitical family. My mother basically hated everybody.

I was born and brought up in south east London and been very conscious for a long time that people feel politics happens to them and not with them.

As soon as I set foot in the parliamentary Sinai, I ceased to be in touch with the masses.

You have a political elite that has been in power since 1979. Typically what happens with this elite, and it has happened in Iran, is that they get more and more out of touch with the realities of the ordinary citizens.

The people's government has come to be less and less the people's business.