Irvine Welsh Quotes

The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood.

The Blair government has lowered the standing of politics and politicians in our country.

Public perception of the Westminster arena, with all its posturings, does little to engender a sense of voter belief.

Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers; they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens.

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

If the President says, oh, Washington's got to change, and people are doubting whether my change can really happen, I think instead what the public's begun to see is the change they're seeing is not the change they voted for.

The mistrust of government that blossomed in the late '60s has become a chronic and in some ways pathological condition.

Politics has come to resemble a cynical team game played by politicians, while the public has been pushed aside as if sitting on the seats of a stadium in which passion for politics is gradually making room for blindness and desperation.

Both parties are impossibly corrupt and the public thoroughly indifferent.

Politics, as a body, has failed the people.

People don't trust party leaders.

I think sometimes with politics, young people especially have become disillusioned with it, because they can't relate to it, there's a lot of snobbery and people are a lot older.

EMILY's List has worked a lot with swing women voters over the years, and one thing we've learned is that they are very cynical about politics and politicians. They very much want help with the challenges facing them and their families, and they feel like most politicians don't understand or want to lift a finger to help them out.

People hate politicians. And I can understand why.

Then you get to the last half of the 20th century, Americans are getting very skeptical about their leaders and their institutions, and another place that is affected is parties and conventions.

I don't believe there are heroes or saviours in politics.

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.

The American people are sick and tired of this 'lesser evil' garbage they get fed every election year. Both the Democrats and the Republicans do the same evils once they're in office.

Politics itself is not sacred any more.

People don't like politicians.

I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them.

If the Republicans think that by having stated and even achieved most of the Contract that they are therefore entitled to the acceptance and favor of the American voter, they're crazy.

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.

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