Quotes About Politics

The stupid thing I incorrectly believed for a long time is that I believed for a long time that some politicians could sometimes tell the truth.

Obama has no solutions. Obama has failed the country and its great citizens, and they don't like it when somebody such as myself speaks the truth about this - it hurts too much.

If both John McCain and Obama were given a sip of truth serum, both would admit they made serious mistakes in choosing running mates in 2008.

I think truth as an idea should be left to the philosophers and perhaps religious leaders and politicians, and professional people who deal with that idea.

Truth refuses to be subservient to either politics or the market.

Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions.

Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?

Talking with most people usually involves a search for truth. Talking with congressmen is strictly special effects.

On Capitol Hill, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales raised his right hand, swore to tell the truth, and then everybody had a good laugh and went back to what they were doing.

If politicians all told the truth, we'd be out of business.

Well, politics is war, and in war, truth is the first casualty.

I could never be a career politician, because I believe in telling the truth.

Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.

We have an electorate that doesn't always pay that much attention to what's going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or truth or what's happening.

Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them.

At a time when politics deals in distortions and half truths, truth is to be found in the liberal arts. There's something afoot in this country and you are very much a part of it.

I've been talking to people all over the country, city council members, grassroots leaders, party leaders, members in Congress - and you know what? The truth is I'll have something to say real soon.

I'm appealing to voters by actually telling the truth.

Of course the president Donald Trump said he wants to get to the truth. He always says that. But I think we all know that those words do not speak as loudly as his actions.

If you are going to stick to the truth then you need to keep your distance from the Chinese government and indeed to any form of politics, including the politics of democratic countries.

In truth I care little about any party's politics—the man behind it is the important thing.

Can't trust a fascist--truth is always your first sacrifice to the welfare of the state

It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth. It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth.