Another cause for the increase in alienation and cynicism is a feeling that too many policy decisions that affect individuals have been taken out of any system that has accountability or that they can influence.
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Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.
- Robert Teeter Quote

I think he could have made most of the trips and gone to most of the fund-raisers if he would have avoided the partisan rhetoric and talked to the country as President in each of these appearances rather than to the narrow partisan audiences.
- Robert Teeter Quote

I think we need one recognized, respected public figure to make a tough, blunt statement on just what Reagan's record is and what he might do to the country, let alone the Republican Party before Christmas.
- Robert Teeter Quote

Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics.
- Robert Teeter Quote

Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each other.
- Robert Teeter Quote

People feel that decisions about their jobs, the way their children are educated, how their church functions, and products they buy are made by someone and some place so distant that they can't find anybody to talk to that has any influence over them.
- Robert Teeter Quote

People just automatically say 'If this guy is George and Barbara Bush's son, we don't have any question about those personal qualities that we were fooled on by Clinton.'
- Robert Teeter Quote

Research has shown that the perceived style of leadership is by far the most important thing to most voters in evaluating officeholders and candidates.
- Robert Teeter Quote

The President has not created any Ford constituency, unique from that of any Republican President. The one exception to this is that he does show unique strength with young voters for a Republican.
- Robert Teeter Quote

The President, the Administration and the campaign need a theme. I am concerned that the President is seen as a tactician without an overall strategy of his plan for the country.
- Robert Teeter Quote

The President's political travel is going to get blamed (and probably rightly) for a share of this downturn.
- Robert Teeter Quote

There needs to be a planned series of speeches, interviews, etc., over the next two or three months by administration officials and other public figures talking about President Ford, what he is trying to do and what he has accomplished.
- Robert Teeter Quote

This has resulted in more and more people becoming inner-directed and having as their only goal, getting as much as they can get out of the system and putting as little into it as possible.
- Robert Teeter Quote

This person should not be directly connected with the President Ford Committee nor should he be seen as a member of the liberal wing of the Republican Party. He should be someone like Laird or Rogers Morton.
- Robert Teeter Quote

We have for the past year and undoubtedly will be for the next year, dealing with an electorate that is more alienated and more cynical than at any point in modern time.
- Robert Teeter Quote

We need people out talking about the President, explaining, agreeing with and praising his actions.
- Robert Teeter Quote

We ought not to be looking for something spectacular but rather develop a plan in conjunction with the White House to work our way out of this problem over the next six weeks.
- Robert Teeter Quote

Whatever he does should be seen as working at the Presidency and if he goes to Colorado for Christmas, it should be for a minimum amount of time, the family tradition and family get-together aspect emphasized, and it be seen as a working vacation.
- Robert Teeter Quote

While only about half of the voters feel they know very much about Reagan or what he stands for, the Republicans who do have a very positive perception of him.
- Robert Teeter Quote

While the President leads his potential adversaries in almost every state, his support is soft. He is seen as honest, sincere, just, and friendly but gets mediocre or relatively poor ratings being competent strong, intelligent, and a forceful leader.
- Robert Teeter Quote