I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
Political ignorance helps explain Americans' perpetual disappointment with politicians generally, and presidents especially, to whom voters unrealistically attribute abilities to control events.
Americans expect too much of politics.
Where did the inspiring Obama of the campaign go, that Facebook pied piper who friended the whole world with this update: 'Change you can believe in.' What happened to him?
He couldn't tell the difference between one politician and another. They were all formlessly enthusiastic chimpanzees to him.
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.
Americans like to say we're fighting for democracy, and yet young Americans have come to the view that democracy doesn't deliver.
I think people vote Ukip from a frustration with politics, which is legitimate, and which politicians have to listen to.
I've never been disappointed by politicians. I've never invested that much in them in the first place.
Every four years, presidents claim more than they have accomplished; opponents portray alternative policies in terms that can only later lead to disillusion.
Nobody really believes any more that government delivers.
Do not waste your faith and love on the political world, but, in the divine world of science and art, offer up your inmost being in a fiery stream of eternal creation.
There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art.
It is true what is said in Washington - 'No matter how cynical you get, it's never enough to catch up.'
It's a big deal for me to say I'm over politics.
I don't know if the average person really has faith in Washington anymore.
Nothing annoys a 'progressive' like refugees from Communism, who give the lie to the Great Socialist Dream.
People are sick of the false choice between the established political parties who take voters for granted.
There's a great public disinclination toward politicians.
We don't think well of our presidents when they are serving. Even Kennedy, with such a short presidency, was beginning to lose his remarkable appeal to the American people when he was suddenly sainted by death.
The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.
Politics in America is like stale bread. It's so yada yada that the best among us can hardly stand it.
You know, the cynicism that is in the politics, it is not for my soul. It makes me - out of me, an extremely bitter, cynical person that I hate to see in the mirror, really.
I know many Canadians are fed up with the traditional way of doing politics.
