Asrani Quotes

Among the things I know is that Trump voters were played for suckers.

More and more Canadians are seeing through Liberal deceptions.

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.

When I got into politics, it was a shock. People promise all sorts of things and then never deliver.

Voters never grow weary of illusory promises.

I haven't been in Washington long, but I have learned that it is a place filled with people who say one thing to get elected and do the opposite once they get there.

BJP only knows how to instigate to disintegrate.

All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.

This shuffling trick of misstating the question, and setting up a man of straw to make a pompous demonstration of knocking him down, is the measure of the capacity of [Congressman] Edward Black and of the majority of the House [of Representatives].

Groups like ours are potentially dangerous to the political process ... A group like ours could lie through its teeth and the candidate it helps stays clean.

It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the political right. The hard right has no interest in religion except to manipulate it.

The mission of parties is to keep the people divided into factions, that they may be unable to do anything for themselves.

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.

Lying is particularly prevalent in democratic states, where leaders need the support of the citizenry in order to execute their policies.

The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow

Business – the world's work – is the sale of lies

Unfortunately, the source of all this conflict between the Sunnis and Shia is some major powers that do not want religious unity amongst Muslims.

God should not be made into a celestial party chairman. To most of us, the manipulative invoking of religion to advance a politician or a party is frightening and divisive. The American people will tolerate religious leaders taking positions for or against candidates ... But the American people are leery about large religious organizations, powerful churches, or synagogue groups engaging in such activities …, not as a matter of law or doctrine, but because our innate wisdom and democratic instinct teaches us these things are dangerous.

[Beware of] politicians who promise some plausible plan of reformation in order to new-model the Constitution

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

Get-educated-quick schemes are usually about as sound as subprime mortgage-backed securities: Enticing but basically fraudulent.

These facts are clear: Trump University was an unlicensed enterprise promising students that they would become wealthy by learning Trump's real estate tips and strategies, taught by his handpicked instructors.

The kind of cynical politics of divide and conquer, that's shameful stuff, and I don't know - people live their life like that, but I don't know how they look back and feel good about themselves.

Hype is supposed to overpromise and underdeliver, not overpromise and overdeliver. Usually, it doesn't deliver at all - it takes your money and keeps your pizza.

A willingness by politicians to say what they think the public want to hear, and a willingness by large parts of the public to believe what they are told by populist politicians, has led to a deterioration in our public discourse.