Quotes About Deception

I can't say I'm surprised: the grassroots antiwar movement keeps turning out to be MoveOn/A.N.S.W.E.R. astroturf.

I looked up the word POLITICS in the dictionary, and it's actually a combination of two words: poli, which means 'many,' and tics, which means 'bloodsuckers.'

I think the world of politics is pretty sleazy.

Politics, in a sense, has always been a con game.

You roll back the stones, and you find slithering things. That is the world of Richard Nixon.

Everyone understands that [democrat Senator Harry Reid] is deliberately lying. The man reads his lies from prepared texts. You can't read from a script and then claim you misspoke.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

Of all sciences there is none, where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.

Most politicians lie for the same reason a monkey swings by his tail, which is to say because he can.

and then the chosen lie would pass into the permanent records and become truth

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

If a politician wins in a dirty way at election, he will sat in position and works with corruption.

You never see the entire script of political theater until long after the last scene has been acted out.

Behind every wolf in sheep's clothing is a trail of dead sheep - rjs

In order to become the master the politician poses as the servant.

Woe to any sheep that hunts with wolves - rjs

Ponzi schemes don't trickle down, they siphon up.

A politician is a person who can make waves and then make you think he's the only one who can save the ship.

The statesman shears the sheep the politician skins them.

I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.

You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.

If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.