Quotes About Skepticism

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

I'm very open about my politics. I don't believe in any political party at all, none of them.

The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.

A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.

Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.

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

If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.

When politicians deny anything fiercely, there is a good chance that it will happen.

I don't pick on politicians. They ain't done nothin'.

It is... a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

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

We live in an age where in politics, people can't disagree with each other without good faith being questioned, there is always an ulterior motive - in it for the money, advance a career.

For Conservatives, seeing is believing; for liberals, believing is seeing.

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

Don't follow leaders, watch your parkin' meters.

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.

I have a deep and profound mistrust of all politicians.

People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled 'politics'.

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

All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spitoons.

Yes, and you should question your government.