Voter Disillusionment Quotes

I think there is a break down of trust generally, between people and politicians. I think that's come about for a whole variety of reasons.

Our tired, old politics is tearing at the seams. The Lib Dems have returned to their local roots, just as a more pluralist politics is desperately needed.

Populists feed on democratic dysfunction. As long as democratic elites and institutions in advanced industrial democracies remain unable or unwilling to tackle the myriad challenges facing their societies, we should expect populism to remain an attractive political option.

Liberal leadership exhausts its power to persuade the discontented and the have-nots to accept ballot-box disappointments or compromises if their victories are to be nullified and if elections are effective in shaping policy only when conservatives win.

The biggest threat to the Trump movement is that Republicans in office demoralize our base because the only way we win now is by driving turnout among our voters. And if our voters just think we're weak, we don't fight, we don't do the things we say when we get elected? Then there is no future for us.

We've reached a truly remarkable situation: a grotesque mismatch between the American intelligencia and the American electorate.

The thing that sustains a strong Fox network is the thing that undermines a strong Republican party.

Democratic Party is a party that's just out of touch with who the electorate is and who Americans are.

Hillary Clinton was rejected soundly by America, but instead of changing course, the Democrats and their media allies are intent on telling Americans just how terrible they are for embracing Donald Trump.

The Senate is no longer a place for any decent man. I am truly sick of Congress.

People are so frustrated by electing people to represent them in Washington, D.C., and having them immediately forget about the Hoosiers they represent.

Money is the fuel that makes political victory possible. Sadly, folks, in many cases it's more important than ideas. And this is what turns off so many people to politics.

Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about government's failure to fix real problems.

The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer.

Incumbents are safe, but party majorities are not. This fosters symbolic votes, message politics and little serious legislating in Congress.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

If the Republican Party continues to ignore its conservative base, then the Party is headed to oblivion.

Politicians make a lot of promises when they are campaigning, and they come to towns, and people get enthusiastic about them coming to their communities. And then they don't fulfill the promises.

I don't buy the argument that there can't be a successful independent candidacy for the presidency of the United States. People who say, 'It can't happen,' are many of the same people who said we'd never elect an African American.

Electoral turnout is falling among the young, and political apathy is on the rise.

If the incumbent or his party has been discredited sufficiently, the challenger can run a successful, content-free campaign.

Silence is not what democracy needs. Right now we have an election where, even the supporters of Hillary Clinton, the majority don't support Hillary; they just oppose Donald Trump. And the majority of Donald Trump supporters don't support him; they just oppose Hillary.

The 2016 election unquestionably deepened the divide between liberals and conservatives.

Governments usually end not with a bang but with a whimper, as the Conservatives learned in the 1990s. Support and authority erodes over time until there is a final collapse of support and pivotal electoral shift.

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