It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The American people don't believe politicians. They don't believe business leaders or Hollywood celebrities or athletes or other supposed role models. And they certainly don't believe the news media.
There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
I believe that a politician needs to be with people.
After believing in promises made and never fulfilled by Labour, people have become increasingly disenchanted with the process assuming that all politicians will say anything to gain power, and then never follow through.
Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.
The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
People don't believe that any politician is any different from any other one.
A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.
I've never met a politician I haven't wanted to walk away from, and I've yet to hear a politician speak and actually believe the words coming out of his mouth.