Public Dissatisfaction Quotes

A hated government does not last long.

What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.

Americans are fed up with these mandatory census surveys, and they're asking us to stop the harassment.

The social discontent in China today is massive

Americans hate traffic jams and also dislike power-hungry political figures.

Everybody hates Congress; even Congress hates Congress.

Republicans run the machine when it's their turn, and then hand the wheel over to Democrats when the public has had enough.

I think politicians are so far out of step with what people really want.

If they won’t listen, we should limit the Politicians’ terms and send them packing..

The people are fed up with politics and partisanship.

There's only one kind of tax that would please everybody - one that nobody but the other guy has to pay.

People are very upset with Washington. They're upset with Democrats. They're upset with Republicans. They're upset with the establishment.

It's not healthy for a society if the people hate their own government.

Why is it so hard for the Congress to do something for the public?

Politicians today are not highly regarded... there seem to be people young and old and in the middle saying that they have never heard such wretched debates.

People are struggling. They're trying to make ends meet, and they're looking for Washington to deliver for them. And they don't feel that that's been happening as quickly as it should. We share that frustration. There's no one more frustrated than President Obama.

Tell Dr. Madison that we are now willing to submit to his Philadelphia lawyer for head of the Treasury. The public patient is so very sick that we must swallow anything, however nauseous.

I was talking to Marylanders... What we were hearing, everywhere, was an overwhelming sense of frustration. People felt a huge disconnect between Annapolis and the rest of Maryland.

We have come to expect campaigns to be mean and stupid and politicians to be unresponsive, self-seeking and for sale to the highest bidder. We make jokes about our vice president, and all we ask of a president is that he be likeable. We seem to have given up on the Pentagon's corrupt use of our tax dollars.

The Gaza leadership is stuck in its rhetoric of revolution and resistance. But the people are fed up with their leadership.

President Obama and Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi represent what mainstream America is rejecting about Washington, D.C. And that is this out of touch with the people.

There never has been a new tax that met with public enthusiasm.

Why is this government so insensitive to the concerns of the middle-class people?

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.