Political Disaffection Quotes

I didn’t leave the Democratic Party. The party left me.

I didn't desert the Democratic party; the Democratic party deserted me.

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

Nigel Farage, the leader of the U.K. Independence Party, is a true populist; Senator Bernie Sanders, the former U.S. presidential candidate who campaigned for Hillary Clinton after losing his battle for the Democratic Party's nomination, is not.

Half a century ago, Ronald Reagan, the man whose relentless optimism inspired me to enter politics, famously said that he didn't leave the Democratic Party; the party left him. I can certainly relate. I didn't leave the Republican Party; it left me.

I didn't leave the Republican Party. It left me.

The Tea Party movement itself is maybe 15, 20 percent of the electorate. It's relatively affluent, white, nativist. You know, it has rather traditional nativist streaks to it. But what is much more important, I think, is the - is its outrage.

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

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

I'm out of the Republican Party. I'm fed up.

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

Forty percent of Americans describe themselves as conservative, 36% independents, and 20% liberal. And these independents are abandoning the Democrat Party in droves. And a key point, they're abandoning the Democrat Party without the Republican Party giving them any reason to go to them. They're just abandoning the Democrats because they don't like what they see.

They're anti-government ideologues who dominate the Republican Party.

Many people voted for Trump just to say, you know, their 'no' to the system.

The Trump phenomenon might feel both interminable and unprecedented to Republican elites, but of course it isn't.

The … populace is at all times disposed to dislike the existing government, be it what it will: and as the popular party retained the government in its hands for many years, the habitual feeling against all governments happens to turn against them.

The fact of the matter, it's that Trump is getting money from blue-collar workers who send him checks for $250. Why? Who is Donald Trump? It's not who he is, it's who he isn't. Not what he is for, what he is against - that is, everything Washington is doing.

Either people are changing their minds about Trump, or increasing numbers of his supporters are deciding it is too embarrassing to admit they support him. Neither is a particularly good position to be in.

I can't really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.

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

Conservatives like to talk about 'the strivers' who share what they like to think of as Conservative values. But as I found in my Blue Collar Tories research in 2012, such people no longer see the party as their natural ally.

Some credit is due to Trump for seizing the anti establishment mood of the country, but most of his success can be attributed to pure luck.

I believe my friends and neighbors there are misguided. I think they are not going to get what they hoped for. But they feel betrayed by the Democratic and Republican establishment.

The 2014 election was not a repudiation of government in general.

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