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Quotes About Manipulation

By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.
~ John le Carre
Work is pushing matter around. Politics is pushing people around.
~ Thomas Szasz
It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
~ Clement Attlee
Politics don't exist, actually. It's just a cheap business. Economics is what makes politics.
~ Eugene Hutz
We've had the trivialization of our politics going on ever since we had electronic media.
~ Robert Scheer
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.
~ Gore Vidal
Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
~ Samuel Johnson
Politics is gut; commercials are gut.
~ Frank Luntz
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
~ Jonathan Swift
Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.
~ Lord Chesterfield
Politics are about preserving relationships at the end of the day, and it has nothing to do with the greater good for humanity. It's just all about business.
~ will.i.am
It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics.
~ Louise Erdrich
PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.
~ Dick Armey
Politics has become entertainment.
~ Joe Eszterhas
Economics is really politics in disguise.
~ Hazel Henderson
Economics dominates politics - and with that domination comes different forms of ruthlessness.
~ Chris Hedges
Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.
~ Henry Adams
It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.
~ Noam Chomsky
Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.
~ Indira Gandhi
The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.
~ Arundhati Roy
In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy.
~ Hannah Arendt