Quotes About Deception

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Economics is really politics in disguise.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Well, it would have to be "The Man Who Was Thursday." It's a damn good read that I believe should be read by everyone in politics.

In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy.

If I am a great man, then all great men are frauds.

It gave dirty politics a bad name.

I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.

A politician... one that would circumvent God.

A lot of times in politics you have people look you in the eye and tell you what's not on their mind.

in politics as in life, what is known is not necessarily what is believed, what is shown is not necessarily what is seen, and what is said is not necessarily what is heard.

Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourg'd with rods, Nettled and stung with pismires[nettles], when I hear Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke.

Experience has taught that politics is a game played by conmen and hypocrites.

There's nothing more oily and cynical in politics than telling the truth.

In politics there are so many holes, so many contradictions, you don't know what's happening.

In the end, the tragedy of Harold Wilson was that you couldn't believe a word he said

All politicians promise that which they cannot deliver. I just wish they did so less gleefully.

Politics and self-interest have been so uniformly connected, that the world, from being so often deceived, has a right to be suspicious of public characters.

It is part of politics to make things look better than they really are. What is a spin doctor but a serial euphemiser?

There are two things that you have to lie to get through. One is politics, and the other is marriage.

The man is the Piltdown Man of modern politics.

Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.

Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics--reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us feel like the happiest people in the world.

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