Lies Politics Quotes

Success in politics is the art of the timely lie. ~ Marty Rubin

My God, Judge, do men believe whatever lie they hear about an enemy? ~ Kenneth Roberts

Because we've been lied to and lied to, and it hurts to be lied to. It's ultimately just about that complicated: it hurts. It denies you respect for yourself, for the liar, for the world. Especially if the lies are chronic, systemic, if hard experience seems to teach that everything you're supposed to believe in's really a game based on lies. Young Voters have been taught well and thoroughly. You may not personally remember Vietnam or Watergate, but it's a good bet you remember 'No new taxes' and 'Out of the loop' and 'No direct knowledge of any impropriety at this time' and Did not inhale' and 'Did not have sex with that woman' and etc. etc. It's depressing and painful to believe that the would-be 'public servants' you're forced to choose between are all phonies whose only real concern is their own care and feeding and who will lie so outrageously with such a straight face that you just know they have to believe you're an idiot. So who wouldn't fall all over themselves for a top politician who actually seemed to talk to you like you were a person, an intelligent adult worthy of respect? ~ David Foster Wallace

You can tell a politician is lying when they claim they want fairness for all. They're part of and represent an unfair elite who will never share their wealth, power or opportunities with the underclass. ~ Stewart Stafford

Fiction writers, magicians, politicians and priests are the only people rewarded for entertaining us with their lies ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

I have two factories in my mind. One that manufactures bullshit, and another one that buys it. ~ Anonymous

Sincerity is not part of the political vocabulary. If it is used or implied bells should ring ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

A politician will promise the moon but deliver an ant hill ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

We contradict all for which we stand for we all stand for the lie the whole lie and nothing but the lie so help save our lying asses. ~ Brian Spellman

Politics preys on people's naivety ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

People believe what they are told. ~ Jacqueline Carey

Politicians are not afraid of their mistakes, they are afraid their mistakes will not succeed ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

There is nothing as pitiful as a politician who is deficient in relaying untruths. ~ Stewart Stafford

The powerful can make the truth dance to their song. ~ J.Y. Yang

We fight exploitation of man by man in words but live it in daily life ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

I don't know how a reporter would ever understand a politician. Your job is supposed to be about finding the truth and enlightening people. Right? A politician's job is about hiding the truth and fooling people. Right? You want us to be better informed so we get smarter. They think we're dumb and it's to their advantage to keep us that way. ~ Dan Groat

Start believing in conspiracies, because those who have the power conspire, and they keep their power by having people not believing in conspiracies. ~ Maria Karvouni

What happens to people living in a society where everyone in power is lying, stealing, cheating and killing, and in our hearts we all know this, but the consequences of facing all these lies are so monstrous, we keep on hoping that maybe the corporate government administration and media are on the level with us this time.
Americans remind me of survivors of domestic abuse.
This is always the hope that this is the very, very, very last time one's ribs get re-broken again. ~ Inga Muscio

To impeach the President or not to impeach the President, that is the question. ~ Steven Magee

Are you a politician or does lying just run in your family? ~ Fannie Flagg

A story can tell the truth...but a story can also lie. Stories can bend and twist and obfuscate. Controlling stories is power indeed. And who could benefit most from such a power? ~ Kelly Barnhill

The best thing you can do with a bully is to ignore them, it is what I do with President Trump. ~ Steven Magee

You must be a Fox News viewer. Nobody else is dumb enough to believe Trump's lies. ~ Oliver Markus Malloy

A DEAD STATESMAN
I could not dig: I dared not rob:
Therefore I lied to please the mob.
Now all my lies are proved untrue
And I must face the men I slew.
What tale shall serve me here among
Mine angry and defrauded young?
from EPITAPHS OF THE WAR 1914-18 ~ Rudyard Kipling

Adding more bull to bull yields bigger bull. ~ Cathy Burnham Martin

Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune ... has already brought him acquittal! ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

The machine does not control the mind of man, though it affects the mind of man; it is the mind of man that can and should control the machine. ~ Hilaire Belloc

Both versions of the story I told were lies, probably because the truth was more difficult to tell. What was the truth? Something terrible had happened. A man had been killed. Maybe it wasn't so difficult after all. ~ Ingrid Rojas Contreras

I've watched politics for years. Republicans rarely get credit for the good things that happen in the economy during their watch. Democrats always get more credit than they deserve. They are just better at political discourse that we are. ~ George W. Bush

I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection. ~ Warren Buffett

What you call your lies are fiction and myths. The art of creating a disguise can be as beautiful as the creation of a painting ... I created a woman for my artist life, bold, gay, courageous, generous, fearless; and another to please my father, a clear-sighted woman with a love of beauty, harmony, and self-discipline, critical and selective; and still another who lives in chaos, embraces the weak and the stumbling and the confused. ~ Anais Nin

Thou goest home this night to thy home of winter, To thy home of autumn, of spring, and of summer; Thou goest home this night to thy perpetual home, To thine eternal bed, to thine eternal slumber. Sleep thou, sleep, and away with thy sorrow, Sleep thou, sleep, and away with thy sorrow, Sleep thou, sleep, and away with thy sorrow, Sleep, thou beloved, in the Rock of the fold. The shade of death lies upon thy face, beloved, But the Jesus of grace has His hand round about thee; In nearness to the Trinity farewell to thy pains, Christ stands before thee and peace is in His mind. Jenny, Ian, Fergus, and Marsali joined in, murmuring the final verse with him. Sleep, O sleep in the calm of all calm, Sleep, O sleep in the guidance of guidance, Sleep, O sleep in the love of all loves, Sleep, O beloved, in the Lord of life, Sleep, O beloved, in the God of life! ~ Diana Gabaldon

See what has become of us. As far as I know, only the old Greeks had gods of drinking and the joy of life: Bacchus and Dionysus. Instead of that we have Freud, inferiority complexes and the psychoanalysis. We're afraid of the too great words in love and not afraid of much too great words in politics. A sorry generation! ~ Erich Maria Remarque

It was possible to love someone and hate him at the same time. ~ Jennifer Crusie

The dead are dead. The great and mighty go their way unchecked. The only hope in the world lies in the people of no account. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else. ~ Charles Kennedy

Someone ought to invent a tool, a kind of plane to shave the lies away from stories and deception away from memories. I'm a collector of shavings. ~ Sasa Stanisic

Politics is not like an ocean voyage or a military campaign ... something which leaves off as soon as reached. It is not a public chore to be gotten over with. It is a way of life. ~ Plutarch

Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country. ~ Ambrose Bierce

Fate lies down the path for those strong enough to walk it. ~ Marissa Honeycutt

There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you. ~ J.K. Rowling

Between being able to and actually doing something lies an ocean, and on its bottom rests all too often the wreck of willpower. ~ Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, they're all social inventions. When the sun comes up in the morning it's shining on the same physical landscape, all the atoms are in place. ~ Bruce Sterling

If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics. ~ Iggy Pop

As long as greed is the root of all evil, there will not be peace.
Get rid of selfishness and greed too will disappear. ~ Zarina Bibi

The realistic style is easy to abuse: from haste, from lack of awareness, from inability to bridge the chasm that lies between what a writer would like to be able to say and what he actually knows how to say. It is easy to fake; brutality is not strength, flipness is not wit, edge-of-the-chair writing can be as boring as flat writing; dalliance with promiscuous blondes can be very dull stuff when described by goaty young men with no other purpose in mind than to describe dalliance with promiscuous blondes. ~ Raymond Chandler

The church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought. ~ John Stott

At college my three main interests were - in descending order of importance - a steady supply of recreational drugs, a 2-S draft deferment, and overthrowing the Nixon administration. ~ Garry Trudeau

This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Mars - they would think the country has gone insane. ~ Noam Chomsky

Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

What lies beneath this envelope of flesh and blood, hmm? Is it something special? Perhaps, when I peel it open, I will be able to see. Perhaps your screams will tell me everything I need to know. ~ Julie Kagawa

I love you too much to lie to you, Lisey. I love you with all that passes for my heart. I suspect that kind of all-out love becomes a burden to a woman in time, but it's the only kind I have to give. I think we're going to be quite a wealthy couple in terms of money, but I'll almost certainly be an emotional pauper all my life. I've got the money coming, but as for the rest I've got just enough for you, and I won't ever dirty or dilute it with lies. Not with the words I say, not with the ones I hold back. ~ Stephen King

Definitions belong to the definer, not the defined, & I no longer wished to have my life & death foretold by others. I had endured too much to be reduced to an idea. Onto that pyre I threw so many, many words - that entire untrue literature of the past which had shackled & subjugated my as surely as the spiked iron collars & leg locks & jagged basils & balls & chains & headshaving - that had so long denied me my free voice & the stories I needed to tell. I no longer wished to read lies as to who & why I was. I knew who I was ~ Richard Flanagan

PANDULPH. You hold too heinous a respect of grief.
CONSTANCE. He talks to me that never had a son.
KING PHILIP. You are as fond of grief as of your child.
CONSTANCE. Grief fills the room up of my absent child,
Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me,
Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words,
Remembers me of all his gracious parts,
Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form;
Then have I reason to be fond of grief. ~ William Shakespeare

I shall ask forgiveness for having fed on lies.

- Farewell ~ Arthur Rimbaud

RELIGIONS, IDEOLOGIES, POLITICS AND GREED CAN ALL UNDERMINE OUR
UNITY.
AND ONLY ONE THING CAN KEEP US ALL TOGETHER:
HUMANITY ~ Mouloud Benzadi

Hope lies in what the book title says, finding love and community. ~ Hazel Rochman

As a result, much of what Luke has to say on the matter of gender lies hidden under layers of interpretation that we have received from earlier generations. It is therefore urgent, for the good of the church, that we continue unearthing what has been hidden. In this task, the many women who today are devoted to the careful study of the biblical text are making an important contribution. ~ Justo L. Gonzalez