Quotes About Cynicism

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

As far as I'm concerned, all politicians are fake people.

I hate all politicians equally.

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

People don't like politicians.

A lot of politicians say they want to get people out to vote; sometimes you can't totally believe they really want that.

You can't blame anyone for being cynical about politicians.

Nevertheless, I resist cynicism and continue to believe in the possibilities for genuine democracy.

I don't read too much into things and look at social media. It's all a load of crap.

The culture of critique undermines the spirit not only of people in public roles but of those who read about them, afraid to believe in anyone or anything because the next story... will tell them why they shouldn't.

For nobody is curious, who isn't malevolent.

I can work with skeptics - cynics are a little bit harder because they already have their mind made up. There's nothing that I'm going to say that's going to change that.

The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.

The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.

I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.

I worry that, given the way the 2016 election went, how cynical and how terrible politics seems, that young people will be less likely to get involved.

I have a big cynical side to me.

It is true what is said in Washington - 'No matter how cynical you get, it's never enough to catch up.'

It's not okay for me to behave as if I'm cynical about the future. Even if I am.

It's easy to be cynical about American politics. It's more important not to be.

There is something quite amusing about someone who is relentlessly positive and wants to be everyone's friend in a cynical world.

I think it's dangerous being cynical because you close doors rather than open them.

Sometimes I do think that politicians are only in it for themselves, but actually as Ive got older Ive started to feel less cynical about them.

This isn't really a convention, This is really an infomercial. And every night we'll have a different infomercial and people view it with a certain level of cynicism.