Robin Williams Quotes

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

The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.

Governor [Myron] Herrick is not a bad man; he is simply weak. He is one of those men who can do dishonest things honestly.

To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.

Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.

It is a world of extremes, which can be characterised most clearly in terms of exclusion. That means political exclusion, whereby the rights of citizens are marginalised by the interests of big business: George W Bush's environmental policy, for example, is clearly formulated in the interests of U.S. energy companies.

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.

Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.

If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.

Inconsistency on the part of pastors and the faithful between what they say and what they do, between word and manner of life, is undermining the Church's credibility.

The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner?

Anything done [in politics] is all right unless you get caught.

Samuel J. Tilden says we are a nation of thieves and rascals. If that is so he ought to be President.

A Fellow who has deserved to be hang'd by all Laws human and divine, for his Conduct in private Life, will spring up into an important Champion at the Head of a Party.

Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda.

A new poll shows that Americans now believe that Bill Clinton is more honest than President George W. Bush. … At least when Clinton screwed the nation, he did it one person at a time.

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree and then mount the stump to make a speech for conservation.

Definition of Moron: What the Republicans would call George W. Bush if he were the Democratic President

They [the Republicans] are the most crooked, lying bunch I have ever seen.

I am sorry to say I do doubt the honesty of many men that are called good at home, that have given themselves up to serve a party.

With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.

In Washington, and wherever two or more politicians may gather, he who does not get caught has ‘character’ and he who gets caught has none..

A man will talk all day about the woman he wants, but should he come across that woman, he'll do something stupid like cheat on her with the kind of woman he was trying to get away from in the first place. It's not a lot of second chances granted in the realm of that.

When I called Clinton a Wall Street puppet, they called me a right-wing extremist. When I said the same about George W. Bush, they called me an anti-war communist. Now that I'm against Obama for the same reasons, mainline conservatives embrace me. When I attack the next right-wing 'savior,' they're gonna call me a communist again.

That's a compliment reserved only for politicians. You never hear someone say, 'You know what I love about my accountant? He's just a normal guy.' That's how low the bar is for people in politics.