Quotes About Manipulation

Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections.

Anyone who does not understand the utter cynicism of politics does not understand politics.

I can't say I'm surprised: the grassroots antiwar movement keeps turning out to be MoveOn/A.N.S.W.E.R. astroturf.

Politics is largely the process of taking credit and putting the blame on others - regardless of what the facts may be.

The manufacturing and packaging of homogeneous experience is what politics in America is about.

I looked up the word POLITICS in the dictionary, and it's actually a combination of two words: poli, which means 'many,' and tics, which means 'bloodsuckers.'

The politics of courtiers resemble their shadows; they cringe and turn with the sun of the day.

I think the world of politics is pretty sleazy.

The politics of fear has brought us everything we are afraid of, including the endless wars, the collapsing economy - all the rest.

Politics, in a sense, has always been a con game.

Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions, and consequently of no use to a good king or a good ministry; for which reason Courts are so overrun with politics.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

Of all sciences there is none, where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.

Most politicians lie for the same reason a monkey swings by his tail, which is to say because he can.

and then the chosen lie would pass into the permanent records and become truth

Party-spirit . . . which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

In every area of politics, the goal is control.

You can't separate desperate politicians from violence and trouble.

You never see the entire script of political theater until long after the last scene has been acted out.

A dictatorship is a country where they have taken the politics out of politics.

Behind every wolf in sheep's clothing is a trail of dead sheep - rjs

In order to become the master the politician poses as the servant.