Political Distance Quotes

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

I don't work with UKIP. They don't advise me.

I'm not friends with politicians. I'm not people's mate.

It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote.

I don't want to be close to politics.

Al Gore didn't need to distance himself from Bill Clinton when he ran for president in 2000 because, when he ran, the country was in very good shape: strong economically and not at war. He did it anyway, and it was, in many people's estimate, mine included, one of the reasons he lost.

For many people, politics in Brussels and Strasbourg might as well be happening on another planet.

There are many young Americans that are very distant from our political process.

I'm coming to a sense of a women's movement which was extraordinarily important in the struggle for freedom in Ireland and immediately afterwards, but then some of those women who were involved in the movement got involved in representative positions and perhaps some of them got a bit distanced from the grassroots issues. But also the women's movement itself seemed to say, "No, we've got our own government, our own parties in power" and they sat back.

I find the remark, "Tis distance lends enchantment to the view" is no less true of the political than of the natural world.

A number of foreign policy experts distanced themselves from Donald Trump, not Michael Flynn.

Democratic candidates who run from President Obama in red states where he is unpopular are making a big mistake. Their holding Obama at arm's length deprives voters of a clear choice at the ballot box.

I don't know Putin. I have never met Putin. He is not my best friend.