Scott Shane Quotes

Truth telling in politics is the mark of an inexperienced politician.

Presidential politics has to be about truth telling and not pandering to the public.

You can be a namby-pamby leftie, a gun-toting neo-con, or a soft, indecisive moderate. I really don't care. Just don't lie to me.

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

I'll tell you the truth, even in an election year, and that's what people are ready for.

The hardest thing to do in politics is campaign as someone you aren't. People can spot an imposter from a mile away.

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

If you have to tell the truth about the fat content in a hamburger, why shouldn’t you have to tell the truth about another individual who is offering for public office.

In Washington telling the truth is a gaff.

One of Mitt Romney’s spokespeople said, “we will not be dictated to by the fact checkers”. What that really means is “we will not be dictated to by the facts.” But the changing demographics is a fact. The Republicans may not compromise with the Democrats, but they are going to have to compromise with reality.

If you ever injected truth into politics you'd have no politics

If you will refrain from telling any lies about the Republican Party, I'll promise not to tell the truth about the Democrats.

For much of my career I had no authentic political voice. I had been campaigning all over the country not to change the world or shake up my audiences but to please the roomful of people to whom I was speaking... As a result, my words rarely had the ring of truth to the nonpolitical observer.

I think in terms of who can be trusted, I think the evidence is clear that there has been no candidate that I have ever seen who lies more often than does Donald Trump. I mean and that's just not me saying it, that's what any independent media analysis has shown. So in terms of trust, you really can't trust a word, I think, that Mr. Trump has to say.

There was in Italy a hidden demand for a boring government which would try to tell the truth in non-political jargon.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

I think Canadians are tired of politicians that are spun and scripted within an inch of their life, people who are too afraid of what a focus group might say about one comment or a political opponent might try to twist out of context, to actually say much of anything at all.

Enter politics, and you enter the glass house; there are no secrets and no places to hide.

Washington could not tell a lie; Nixon could not tell the truth; Reagan cannot tell the difference.

If newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about art we should not believe in war, and we should believe in art.

About other Democratic candidates: Never say that any of them is not qualified to be President. Never say any of them can't win. Never suggest that any of them is the tool of an group or interest ...