Quotes About Politics

Washington is the only place in the world where a gaffe is when a politician accidently speaks the truth.

You know there's no crooked politicians. There's never a lie because there is never any truth.

The truth is the Federal Reserve Board has usurped the Government of the United States. It controls everything here and it controls all our foreign relations. It makes and breaks government at will.

Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy

Without the truth of the people, politics degenerates into mere spectacle and democracy declines, leaving demagoguery and cynicism to fill the void.

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson...

Someone once noted that a 'gaffe' in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.

Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.

Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics.

Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth. Capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth.

Could America exist without an income tax? The idea seems radical, yet in truth America did just fine without a federal income tax for the first 126 years of her history.

Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.

Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies.

If you will refrain from telling any lies about the Republican Party, I'lll promise not to tell the truth about the Democrats.

All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change.

The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.

I have this insane optimistic streak that the American people prevail over the stupidity that the leadership exhibits time and time again, and I think that's the truth.

Objective truth itself is sometimes often seen as a right wing Republican-Christian plot to take over the government (though the rhetoric is cleverer than that, that's the bottom line).

When an administration embarks on a war justified by little or no intelligence, speaking the truth can be regarded as treachery. The country could use more of that kind of "treachery".

I'm concerned about truth and credibility in government.

Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth

Well the truth is, Republicans didn't just lose a few elections, we lost our way.