Quotes About Deception

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason? Why, when it prospers, none dare call it treason.

Politicians don't lie, they misspeak. And they don't steal, they mispocket.

Politics is the art of anesthesia.

By oft repeating an untruth, men come to believe it themselves.

Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.

In politics, manipulating reality can take presidence over finding reality.

...Politics is not about facts. It is about what politicians can get people to believe.

If politics is like show business, then the idea is not to pursue excellence, clarity or honesty but to appear as if you are, which is another matter altogether.

Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.

Under every stone lurks a politician.

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

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

Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it's troubling.

In politics, what appears is.

There they are. See no evil, hear no evil, and...evil.

Politics is made up of two words: "Poli," which is Greek for "many," and "tics," which are bloodsucking insects.

diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.

The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.

To listen to some people in Politics, you'd think-nice-was a four-letter word.

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.

Does anyone need yet another politician caught with his pants down and money sticking in his hole?