"Now, there's one thing you might
have noticed I don't complain about: politicians. Everybody complains
about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people
think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky.
They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. They come
from American parents and American families, American homes, American
schools, American churches, American businesses and American
universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the
best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It's what our
system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish,
ignorant citizens, you're going to get selfish, ignorant leaders.
Term limits ain't going to do any good; you're just going to end up
with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe,
maybe, maybe, it's not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else
sucks around here... like, the public. Yeah, the public sucks.
There's a nice campaign slogan for somebody: 'The Public Sucks. Fuck
Hope.'"

"I have solved this political dilemma in a
very direct way: I don't vote. On Election Day, I stay home.
I firmly believe that if you vote, you have no right to complain.
Now, some people like to twist that around. They say, 'If you
don't vote, you have no right to complain,' but where's the logic in
that? If you vote, and you elect
dishonest, incompetent politicians, and they get into office and
screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You
voted them in. You caused the problem. You have no right to complain.
I, on the other hand, who did not vote -- who did not even leave the
house on Election Day -- am in no way responsible for that
these politicians have done and have every right to complain about
the mess that you created."

--
George Carlin (1937- 2008)