Time Quote by David Gustafson

“All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.”

— George Orwell

“the researchers found that people who strongly identified with a fictional character who overcame obstacles to vote were significantly more likely to vote in…

— Terry Marselle

“Polls could be self-fulfilling prophecies, shaping reality as much as they described it.”

— Rick Perlstein

“A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation.”

— James Freeman Clarke

“Any rich, unprogressive old party with that particularly grasping, acquisitive form of mentality known as financial genius can own a paper that is the…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“We want to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their congressmen, countries try to believe in…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I want to believe in prophecies more than policies. I want to listen to poets rather than pollsters.”

— Carolina De Robertis

“a cynical electorate is a self-centered electorate.”

— Barack Obama

“Do not pretend to know the future. Many say it is already written. The dreamers know otherwise.”

— Yola Dunne

“Voter apathy was, and will remain the greatest threat to democracy.”

— Hazen Pingree

“The only people truly bound by campaign promises are the voters who believe them.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“The purpose of politics is to keep voters hopeful so they keep on voting”

— Patson Phala