Bess Myerson Quotes

… that insidious man

He [Jack Kemp] is dumber than he looks and even more two faced than I depict him!

Yes, I know I've played these women, but I'm not really conniving at all.

Maniacal self-promoter …. Makes Machiavelli look like a simple, straightforward kinda guy.

Sidharth Shukla is very manipulative.

In Indian politics, deception seems a byword. I'll have none of that.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

In Hollywood, they put the knife in your front; in D.C., they put it in your back. I found far fewer duplicitous people in Hollywood.

In politics there is no honor.

Talleyrand is a silk stocking filled with mud.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation

For all the criticism of me, there's one thing you won't hear anybody say, and that's that I've pulled the wool over anyone's eyes.

But when the fox hath once got in his nose, He'll soon find means to make the body follow.

Well, I'm not a crook.

You may remember the story of how the devil and a friend of his were walking down the street, when they saw ahead of them a man stoop down and pick up something from the ground, look at it, and put it away in his pocket. The friend said to the devil, "What did that man pick up?" "He picked up a piece of the truth," said the devil. "That is a very bad business for you, then," said his friend. "Oh, not at all," the devil replied, "I am going to help him organize it."

There are actually very few US politicians who have integrity and vision.

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.

I'm not naturally manipulative.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

In Canada, things are very honest.

If anybody ever dares to compare Bob Dole to Clinton, then they're comparing a criminal to an honest man.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

I'm a longtime believer in the old adage that sunlight is the best disinfectant, particularly in politics.