Richard Cohen Quotes

What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.

Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius.

Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.

There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud.

Politicians are masters of the art of deception.

... political pornography.

Voters never grow weary of illusory promises.

We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catchwords, devised to flatter rather than instruct.

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.

Sitting in marble corridors waiting for important people to lie to you.

We have done our level best ... we have scratched our heads to find out how we could eliminate the last one of them. We stuffed ballot boxes. We shot them. We are not ashamed of it

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action … Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

Politics is the art of making the people believe that they are in power, when in fact, they have none.

The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you.

More and more Canadians are seeing through Liberal deceptions.

Let's face it - Donald Trump is a very, very good con man.

BJP's agenda was all wrong. They claimed that India was shining. Is it a utensil which will shine when rubbed? They fooled the people by these slogans and tried to divide them on the lines of religion.

I did not think the Oligarchy would allow Trump to win. However, it seems that the oligarchs were deceived by their own media propaganda.

Donald Trump both disbelieves and believes in falsehoods, so that when he did thrive on his longstanding - the claim that Obama was not born in the United States - he's crazy like a fox in manipulating it because it gave him his political entrée onto the national stage. In order to make your falsehoods powerful, you have to believe in them in some extent. And that's why we simplify things if we say that Trump either believes nothing in his falsehoods and is just manipulating us like a fox or he completely believes them.

I don't know that Donald Trump is anything more to Putin than what Lenin called a poleznye durak, a useful idiot.

Every time Donald Trump thinks things are not going in his direction, he claims whatever it is, is rigged against him.

With Rudy [ Giuliani], [Donald Trump] will - the minute they push him too far and start manipulating, he will - he will lash out.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all the people some of the time, which is just long enough to be president of the United States.

What a bunch of garbage, liberal, Democratic, conservative, Republican, it's all there to control you, two sides of the same coin! Two management teams, bidding for control of the CEO job of Slavery Incorporated!

The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.