Subramanian Swamy Quotes

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.

Jayalalitha is a performing monkey in the hands of Sasikala.

Secrecy is the foundation of politics.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

Politics. The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

The delusion of the people is necessary to the dominant party. I see the extent to which that delusion has been already carried, and I see there is no length to which it may not be pushed by a party in possession of the revenues and the legal authorities of the United States

A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion.

If he is reelected, I can keep him in ignorance of my affairs.

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

By exploiting envy and fear, politicians can portray themselves as the saviors and protectors of the public — doing and saying whatever is necessary to gain the support needed to remain in power.

The word "education" has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the real purpose is coercion without the use of force.

Politics is a great art. It succeeds at convincing the people that they have to pay for what has been stolen from them.

Politics is the art of making the people believe that they are in power, when in fact, they have none.

Politics is power, and communications is power,

Trump did not spring out of nowhere, and I was struck by how prescient writers like Alexis de Tocqueville and George Orwell and Hannah Arendt were about how those in power get to define what the truth is.

Renzi is a pawn. Renzi is a dumb slave at the disposal of nameless people who want to control all of our lives from Brussels.

Obama's just a puppet - he's a puppet in a chair.

In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy.

History is not happenstance: it is conspiratorial. Carefully planned and executed by people in power.

The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over.

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

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

There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.

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