Politics Frustration Quotes

Am I a liberal or conservative? I'm neither. Like most Americans, I find politics very frustrating. Like most Americans, I'd like to hear from politicians the facts. That is what drives me.

Politics requires tolerance for triviality, artifice, nonsense I have found in short supply.

In an interview with Univision, President Obama said if there's one thing he's learned, it's that you can't change Washington from within. So what is he saying - that if we want real change, we should throw him out?

I'm not a political person. I don't understand politics, I don't understand the concept of two sides and I think that probably there's good on both sides, bad on both sides, and there's a middle ground, but it never seems to come to the middle ground and it's very frustrating watching it and seemingly we're not moving forward.

Things get very lonely in Washington sometimes. The real voice of the great people of America sometimes sounds faint and distant in that strange city. You hear politics until you wish that both parties were smothered in their own gas.

I'm so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.

Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.

Party politics are quite upsetting. I've been a member of the Labour party, the Green party, the Women's Equality Party, the National Health Action Party and now I'm not a member of any.

I learned my politics at Harvard and my economics in Washington….I may be the only person who came to Washington to get out of politics.

I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty.

I know many Canadians are fed up with the traditional way of doing politics.

Oh, it were better to be a poor fisherman than to meddle with the government of men.

Philosophy is called upon to compensate for the frustrations of politics and, more generally, of life itself.