Winston Churchill Quotes

There is hardly a single person in the House of Commons worth painting; though many of them would be better for a little whitewashing.

In all ages hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns on the heads of thieves, called kings.

Politics has become beyond acceptable when it comes to humanity. People are just frozen in falsehood.

The political arena is the funniest.They [politicians] are always pretending to change, but they never change. They're the best actors and actresses in the world. They've always been hilarious since the beginning of time.

Dr Urbino did not agree: in his opinion a Liberal president was exactly the same as a Conservative president, but not as well dressed.

What's the difference between a politician and a catfish? One is a wide-mouthed, bottom-feeding, slime sucker - and the other is a fish.

It's better to be known as a puppet than pretend not to be a puppet like Nawaz Sharif.

Every politician, in order to be a politician, has to be adept at the art of one and one thing only, and that is lying.

In my experience in Washington, when people refuse to come clean, it is usually because they are hiding dirty laundry.

Our power knows no limits, yet we cannot find food for a starving child, or a home for a refugee. Our knowledge is without measure and we build the weapons that will destroy us. We live on the edge of ourselves, terrified of the darkness within. We have harmed, corrupted and ruined, we have made mistakes and deceived.

How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party

One of my most often repeated quips was the one I made when former Presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon stood by each other at a White House event. 'There they are,' I said. 'See no evil, hear no evil, and . . . evil.'

Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.

In politics practically everything you hear is scandal, and besides, the funny thing is that the things they are whispering ain't half has bad as the things they have been saying right out loud.

He had the hypocrisy to represent a mourner: and previous to following with Hareton, he lifted the unfortunate child on to the table and muttered, with peculiar gusto, 'Now, my bonny lad, you are mine! And we'll see if one tree won't grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it!

In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy.

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty.

As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon, So sophistry, cleaves close to, and protects Sin's rotten trunk, concealing its defects.

Party politics is now a real farce.

When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags.

Any time some politician tells you it's not about the money, it's about the money.

Ministers fall like buttered slices of bread: usually on their good side.

The candidates at the Republican debate looked like a town council that was outlawing dancing. They looked like a board of directors that was lying about poisoning a river.