Trevor Paglen Quotes

Sitting in marble corridors waiting for important people to lie to you.

I think all politicians lie.

It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.

tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood.

It isn't hard to be an artist and do your money thing. It's much harder to wake up in the middle of the night knowing that you're being ripped off and starting to get this feeling in your stomach almost bordering on bitterness toward people who are saying one thing and doing another.

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

Washington, DC is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese.

Politicians, it's in their job description to just lie, every day.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government.

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.

Politicians often lie.

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.

If you do not know how to lie, cheat and steal, turn your attention to politics and learn.

Politics. The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

Most of us in Congress steal our speeches.

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.

In Washington telling the truth is a gaff.

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.

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is. They are addicts, and they are guilty and they do lie and cheat and steal — like all junkies.

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.

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

Politicians lie.

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.