Quotes About Perception

I'd rather have a German Division in front of me than a French one behind.

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.

I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.

Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.

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

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them.

It is truly a triumph of rhetoric over reality when people can believe that going into politics is 'public service,' but that producing food, shelter, transportation, or medical care is not.

I was raised with the idea that if you're not smart enough to do science you can do politics.

He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.

(A)nything not acting as a propaganda arm for the Democrats or the Leftist agenda is considered conservative these days.

In politics, what appears is.

In the era of imperialism, businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of succcessful businessmen.

I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin.

What counted was not the facts but the fears.

Did you ever see that painting the Mona Lisa. It always reminds me of a reporter listening to a politician.

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

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

The fact is that a liberal Democrat doesn't want to talk about ideology because they don't want to explain publicly what they're really doing.

Politics is gut; commercials are gut.

....nothing is so unhealthy or unstable as the reputation for power that is not based on one's own power.

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics.

More than half the questions I am asked are about the politics of the way I look