Graydon Carter Quotes

I hate politics. What they say and what they do is completely different.

You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags.

I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty.

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Huey Long’s methods outdid the good he did with the results.

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

Bull permeates everything.... American people think politics and politicians are full of baloney.

To expect integrity or honesty in a politician is like trying to buy fish at a produce market.

In friendships, you expect total trust; in business you expect some dishonesty. But in politics, you not only expect distortion as a way of life but accept it with pleasure.

I would feel insulted if you called me a politician. Politicians here in Africa do not have a good reputation.

Surely we don’t want the President to lie, we don’t want our senators to lie, we don’t want our congressmen to lie. But sometimes they do.

I would as soon go to live in a pen in a stockyard as into American politics

All governments lie, including our own—under Democrats and Republicans.

I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to.

I have flatly refused to be conned by Jyoti Basu and his corrupt government.

I don't think that political history is full of a whole lot of tremendously honest people. I have never found any fault about that as far as Mr. Trump is concerned in my relationship with him.

They spend us into the dirt and lie like crazy, and, my gosh, I have never seen an opponent who just lies like he's taking a drinking of water like Terry McAuliffe. It is nothing to him.

Over the years, Judicial Watch has called out many White House conflicts of interest.

Arlen Specter is a scoundrel.

Politics and self-interest have been so uniformly connected, that the world, from being so often deceived, has a right to be suspicious of public characters.

I'd almost prefer [Richard] Nixon. I'd say [Bill] Clinton is every bit as corrupt as Nixon, but a lot smoother.

The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience.

Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many.

This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.

You look at Cheney, Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, and Bush - if you saw them on Halloween, they wouldn't need a costume. You'd give them a treat and compliment them on what great-looking demons they were. They are demons. There's no doubt about it.