Michael Ignatieff Quotes

I do vote but I don't think that any political party represents my point of view.

Americans like to say we're fighting for democracy, and yet young Americans have come to the view that democracy doesn't deliver.

Everywhere, you have a fatigue for reform... that's very serious.

Millions of people feel ignored by the political establishment.

This election manifesto is the longest suicide note in history.

All my trust in the politicians had been rubbed away.

We didn't leave the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party left us.

I've been banned from just about everything.

In some communities, I show up, and they say, 'Well, we haven't seen our Democrat congressman in 10 years.'

There's a total separation between the federal government and the people. So running for president was an attempt on my part to get people to care enough to go vote. But people just don't bother. And that's why it's not working.

One of the reasons people feel so alienated from the American political process is in the fights we get in here in Washington, no one's ever talking about them and the challenges they're going through.

The political graveyards are full of people who don't respond.

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

I've experienced a great deal of, you know, ostracism from the making of films.

I think people vote Ukip from a frustration with politics, which is legitimate, and which politicians have to listen to.

One of the things I endeavor to remind people of consistently when I am asked to speak to groups around the country is to consider the possibility that we are led by a pack of idiots. This is not out of any animus toward our leadership class, but borne out of experience.

I'm not a political guy; I really don't care a lot about politics. I never have and probably never will.

I really swung between the extremes. From the danger of being ostracised by the society, I almost overnight found myself as virtually the darling of the millions.

We do have our challenges. Some things don't always work right in Washington, and the anger you see from the electorate, I think, is a reflection of what's not working right.

I know what it's like to feel marginalized and defeated and humiliated by suffering from a mental illness.

I was ostracized by my community.

People don't trust party leaders.

Some politicians are in so long they completely lose touch with reality.

I was taunted because I was different.

In rural communities, people are upset with the government, upset with what they see as business as usual. They saw Obama as a change agent, and they saw Donald Trump as a change agent.