Will Rogers Quotes

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

There is this concept of politics as a dirty game.

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.

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.

There's a tendency, especially among revolutionaries, to only show the good side of yourself and then when you come to power, the bad side comes out.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries.

It must be remembered that the Bush White House has a separate talent for character assassination that must not be confused with a talent for governance.

… the sickest political program to be conceived since television became a factor … it appeals to the prurient and prejudiced in a fashion which makes a mockery of its pretension to be speaking for moral conduct.

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

The connection between humbug and politics is too long established to be challenged.

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.

In Washington telling the truth is a gaff.

Politics is a dirty business for a gentleman ...

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

Politics: a Trojan horse race

Talleyrand is a silk stocking filled with mud.

… politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia

In Washington, and wherever two or more politicians may gather, he who does not get caught has ‘character’ and he who gets caught has none..

Even Napoleon had his Watergate.

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

Establishment, career politicians are about saying one thing and doing another.

I think that scandal and intrigue and all of those sort of things that occur behind closed doors - whether it's on the Hill or in the White House - people all find intriguing.

If Democrats insist on looking for skeletons in the closet, they should take a long look at themselves. They've hidden more than their fair share.

The Rafale deal narrative that the Congress is setting is a propaganda that has international ramifications.