Peter Capaldi Quotes

I am not a politician. A politician is someone who does things to get elected. He's a guy who says things to please the public, that he thinks the public wants to hear, and his story changes with every passing day. I want to be elected, but I am not going to say a damn thing for your benefit, or that person's benefit out there on the street, or anybody's

I think people are distrustful of politicians and are looking for someone who is telling the truth with no hidden agenda.

Politicians are part fake, part substance.

In politics there is a lot of spin—a lot of BS. My job is to cut through the BS.

Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other married couples they sometimes live apart.

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.

Living in Washington, you can't take politics too seriously. I draw the line at honesty. I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to.

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.

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

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

You don’t tell the truth just some of the time… The American people deserve the truth all of the time.

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

By and large, our leaders don’t lie to us.

What I've tried to do in politics is two very simple things: tell the truth and do what I said I would do.

Hillary Clinton believes that it's vital to deceive the people by having one public policy and a totally different policy in private.

People are drooling for the truth. They want honesty from politicians, and they're not getting it.

This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more sophisticated at knowing when the truth is being obscured - an irony that seems to elude most of today's elected officials.

I know that I need honesty from the people I interview. I also know that the truth is more interesting than made up stuff, and also, people don't connect with you if you're not honest.

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.

Truth is a great flirt.

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.

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'

I'm okay if everything is honest and truthful and relatable. If it's fabricated and ill-motived, it's not good.