Voter Skepticism Quotes

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

I'd make a better U.S. president than George W. Bush. Bush is an idiot. I'm a better public speaker than him. It makes you wonder about the voters.

It's really hard to get to know me, or any candidate. And I would be asked questions like, well, why are you really running for president?

Marco Rubio was fighting to grant amnesty and not to secure the border, I was fighting to secure the border. And this also goes to trust, listening on to campaign trails. Candidates all the time make promises. You know, Marco said," he learned that the American people didn't trust the federal government."

I think if there's anything that's important today, it's credibility with the voter, because the voter is tired of being sold a bill of goods.

We have an educated and cynical electorate.

I was always a little skeptical of how voters would react to my name.

There are a lot of reasons not to elect me...

If a candidate for president said he believed that space aliens dwell among us, would that affect your willingness to vote for him? Personally, I might not disqualify him out of hand; one out of three Americans believe we have had Visitors and, hey, who knows? But I would certainly want to ask a few questions.

Voters are looking for credibility and are wary of polish. At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter which candidate can more deftly read a teleprompter.

Voters are naturally suspicious of politicians.

Weary of wily politicians who say one thing and do another, voters and advocacy groups insist presidential contenders commit to the cause du jour in writing, but candidates are foolish to comply. Words matter.

Back during the campaign, there were a lot of questions: Is Trump really a conservative? A lot of questions about it.

I think the truth is that the Labour Party isn't believed any more because people suspect it will say anything to get votes. The rebuilding of some radical alternatives to Thatcherism - and by that I mean all-party Thatcherism - will require us to do some very difficult things

There’s no question that once a president lies, people are then quite jaded in how they look at that president. But that quickly wears off. Trust reasserts itself. And then people are vulnerable all over again.

It's not only the British voters who have doubts about European cooperation. There is skepticism in many other E.U. countries.

The electorate suspects and distrusts men of superb intellect …

It would be a healthy exercise for every politician to look in the mirror every morning and remind himself that he holds office only because, in a two-man race against another mediocrity, a modest majority of those half-informed people who imagined that their votes mattered reckoned that he was the lesser evil. And they weren't too sure about that.

I didn't have a special secret about Sarah Palin. I just had a feeling and some concerns. Her blank stares and her lashing out in some interviews, I think, gave voters pause about her, too.

... we engage in politics because we don't know anything. This is clearly revealed in the way we go about it. Our parties exist from a fear of theory. The voter fears that one idea can always be contradicted by another. Therefore the parties reciprocally defend themselves against the few old ideas they have inherited. They don't live from what they promise, but from frustrating the promises of others. This is their silent community of interests.

I have a question for Republicans running for the House and the Senate. I'm asking this question with genuine sincerity: Why should people vote for you? It's clear that you don't want to stop Hillary Clinton.

The question the electorate asks is: 'What can you do for us? Are you just using us to defeat somebody because you have a personal grievance?'

Things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth. Politicians might mention renewable energy, and the public will think, "That sounds good, but I don't believe they're going to do everything they can to build those towers."

It takes a full quarter for economic improvement to effect the electorate as they are skeptical.

If all the things the Republicans are saying about me are true, I wouldn't vote for myself either.