Quotes About Politics

George W. Bush is a leader, and that's what we need in the White House. George Bush is someone you can believe and trust.

According to a new poll, the number of Americans who trust Hillary is dropping. Specifically into a hole that Hillary covered with leaves.

After all, if you can't trust governments, whom can you trust?

In Nigeria they convict by law, not by the truth

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

In truth, ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness', even supposing this term to have an unambiguous meaning. It is profoundly unconscious, even when it presents itself in a reflected form.

Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.

We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.

Democracy is four wolves and a sheep voting on dinner.

Donald Trump is going to speak the truth to the American people.

If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.

The truth of the matter is the tone is toxic here in Washington, and we have been exporting it around the country.

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.

If you want to make a Conservative angry, tell him a lie. If you want to make a Liberal angry, tell him the truth.

I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.

I'm not a politician; I am a singer. Long ago, they said, 'That one, she sings politics.' I don't sing politics; I merely sing the truth.

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.

The truth about Hamas and Islamic Jihad is that they don't prevent Israel from existing or even flourishing, they prevent Palestine from coming into existence

Every four years we go through the same cycle of hope and disillusionment.

He had lost touch with citizens of his state, a common illness that afflicts many an elected official.

By 1968 you can't say 'nigger'—that hurts you. Backfires. So you can say stuff like forced busing, states' rights, and all that stuff.

President Reagan ran on practically the same platform that I ran on in 1948: less federal intervention, less federal control, and less federal spending.

Democracy implies government by the people. Aristocracy implies a government of the rich … and in those words are contained the sum of party distinction.