Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty.

A conservative government survives essentially by dampening expectations and subduing hopes. Conservatism is basically pessimistic, reformism is basically optimistic.

Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many.

Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.

I hate politics. What they say and what they do is completely different.

There's a tendency, especially among revolutionaries, to only show the good side of yourself and then when you come to power, the bad side comes out.

Reagan and Bush... made the world safe for hypocrisy.

One of the melancholy facts of political life is that your convictions tend to align with your paycheck.

I do not believe that our place is at the comfortable mid-point between the extremes of left and right.

A liberal is a conservative who's been indicted.

I consider it a great homage to public opinion to find every scoundrel nowadays professing himself a liberal.

In all ages hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns on the heads of thieves, called kings.

To expect integrity or honesty in a politician is like trying to buy fish at a produce market.

I entered Parliament with what I thought to be the lowest possible opinion of the average member. I came out with one still lower.

A tired nation is a Tory [conservative] nation.

There is nothing wrong with God, and the flag is good as is the family, but what I resent is that the Republicans use these as a cover for their support of big money.

The best position the government could assume would be that of moderation between opposite extremes of Ultra-Toryism and Radicalism

We have seen this complete right wing takeover of modern liberalism, and it is an ugly spectacle to behold.

Politics is a great art. It succeeds at convincing the people that they have to pay for what has been stolen from them.

… politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia

Liberal hypocrites like Mr. Weinstein were a big reason 63 million Americans voted for a conservative hypocrite like Mr. Trump.

Establishment, career politicians are about saying one thing and doing another.

I mostly like politicians. Very few of them are evil, although quite a lot are delusional.

The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience.

The American Right has an amazing ability to lionize leaders whose lives are the precise antithesis of the political values that define their image.