Katharine Gun Quotes

To plunder, to lie, to show your ass, are the three essentials for climbing high.

If you do not know how to lie, cheat and steal, turn your attention to politics and learn.

The centerpiece of the Bush administration's case for going to war in Iraq was Secretary of State Colin Powell's presentation to the U.N. Security Council on February 5, 2003, six weeks before the invasion.

It would be a most despicable thing to suggest I would exploit the poor for my own personal gain.

No doubt, corporate CEOs who lie to their shareholders and politicians who lie to their public know and believe intellectually that lying is immoral. Why then do they lie? They lie to others because they first lie to themselves.

There were no weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein was not involved in the September 11th attack.

Have I given any symptoms of an avaricious disposition? Have I obtained any grants from the crown since I have been placed at the head of the treasury? Has my conduct been different from that which others in the same station would have followed?

All those men have their price.

Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

Well, what I've said is that the war in Iraq will always be clouded by how it began, which was a wrong premise, that there were in fact no weapons of nuclear - weapons of mass destruction.

There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.

He who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against.

I've always believed everything was about protecting the Clinton power structure and anyone would be sacrificed who got in the way of that.

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.

I'm selfish.

The truth was, there was never a connection between Iraq and Osama Bin Laden. There were no weapons of mass destruction, either.

[Political] offices are as acceptable here as elsewhere, and whenever a man cast a longing eye on them, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

Ambition is the mother of hypocrisy and prefers to skulk in corners and dark places. It cannot endure the light of day. It is an unclean vice wallowing in the depths, always hidden, but with ever an eye to advancement.

A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.

The hazards of politics come not from campaigns and elections, as might be supposed, but rather from the nature of the creature that engages in politics. Ambition, love, jealousy, hate and the many emotions and reactions man is heir to frequently affect the course of nation and world more than principles or circumstances or events.

But what will not ambition and revenge descend to?

Even the best-intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest man to do.

Resist the temptation to exploit power for personal or group interests.

Beware of all men who would turn the tasks and the necessities of the nation to their own private profit or use them for the building up of private power.

The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle.