Otis Singletary Quotes

Politicians learn to turn the truth into something that they want the truth to be.

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

[…] our world is far too indulgent of politicians saying blatantly insincere things.

You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags.

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

I feel sorry for many politicians... we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.

Politician is a term of reproach.

In politics where immediate success is attained by saying what people can be made to believe, rather than what is demonstrably true, accent is generally placed on the desirable rather than on the possible.

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

The reality often times does not match the rhetoric. The rhetoric is very easy if you keep the reality secret.

I don't think that political history is full of a whole lot of tremendously honest people. I have never found any fault about that as far as Mr. Trump is concerned in my relationship with him.

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

Every politician, in order to be a politician, has to be adept at the art of one and one thing only, and that is lying.

Trump followed Fox's lead. He parroted what he heard on TV. He lied and lied, but rather than suffer the consequences, his lies were excused and supported and even celebrated by his media enablers.

It's amazing how lies grow. You start with a small one that seems easy to cover, then you get boxed in and tell another one. Then another. People believe you at first, then they act upon your lies, and you catch yourself wishing you'd simply told the truth.

There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.

George Washington was the president who could never tell a lie, and Richard Nixon was the president who could never tell the truth. Donald Trump is truly the president who can't tell the difference.

That's the problem in politics. One wrong word and it's over.

Concerned we're in a time where politicians can't even fake sincerity. Aren't they supposed to be good at that?

One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.

But, you know, when I look at somebody like Hillary Clinton, who sits there and tells her daughter and a government official that no, this was a terrorist attack, and then tells everybody else that it was a video. Where I came from, they call that a lie.

The problem with every American candidate regarding the presidency, I am not talking only about this campaign or elections, but generally, that they say something during the campaign and they do the opposite after the campaign.

There's the disingenuous duplicitousness, but you can apply that to every politician, really.

A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself.