Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

I've never been disappointed by politicians. I've never invested that much in them in the first place.

The idea of politics is just so uninteresting to me - I've never paid much attention to it. I don't believe things can really change. It doesn't matter who's president. Nothing really gets resolved. I don't know. I guess that's not the right attitude to take.

I don't do politics. I just like to laugh.

It's a big deal for me to say I'm over politics.

I don't miss politics.

I think people are just really disappointed, disappointed with Blair as well, who's just like Bush's lapdog. I think everyone's just disillusioned with politics in our country, and it must be the same in your country.

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

Politics in America is like stale bread. It's so yada yada that the best among us can hardly stand it.

I'm very apolitical. I mean, after having covered politicians so much all my life, I basically have no belief in politics. But it's more of an attitude and a discipline in the way you approach life, I think, than it is just what lever you pull in a voting booth.

I've never been inspired by a politician in France, and I think a lot of my own generation think that way.

There's a great public disinclination toward politicians.

What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house.

It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.

The sight of allegedly sophisticated politicians parroting complete tripe trivialises and demeans government and it has to be stopped. It's played a significant part in public disillusionment with politics and has led to the absurd situation where more people vote for 'Strictly Come Dancing' than voted in the general election.

The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.

I probably owe my political dismay to New Labour, but also my growing sense that the satirical shape of human affairs is international and historical, not glued to the tawdry ambitions of a team of politicians who represent nothing but themselves.

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

But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in.

I'm an unambitious politician.

I don't fancy myself a political commentator. I hate politics. I hate it.

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

It is true what is said in Washington - 'No matter how cynical you get, it's never enough to catch up.'

I wasn't interested in politics. My attitude about it was, I can't make a difference no matter what I do. And the truth is, I don't even care enough to try.

I hate government. I'm apolitical. Write that down. I'm not a Republican.

The political satirist usually votes against their own interests, but the bottom line is that it doesn't really matter.