Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their faces, so that if those songs fall flat they can say 'Ah well, we never really meant it anyway.' It's so dishonest.

Clinton's a schmuck.

When I was knowingly misled but only learned that much later, that's really when I started to become disillusioned at the White House.

Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.

Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.

The music industry is a world of smoke and mirrors: they tell you exactly what they think you want to hear. And they are bare-faced lying. I tend to stay away from that.

In 2004, I wrote 'What We've Lost,' a book about the Bush administration. It sold only reasonably well, in part, I think, because the book was a horrific downer, an unrelenting account of the administration's actions, bungles, deceptions, half-truths, untruths, and downright corruptions.

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic.

The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not.

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

If somebody is going to hand me a load of BS, I feel obliged to call attention to the steaming pile

Saying one is adopting one's policies to changing circumstances is a nice way of saying "I lied.

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

Bill Clinton smoked Marijuana but he didn't inhale, he spent time with a woman but he didn't sleep with her, he received a draft notice but didn't read it. Why give him the White House; he won't use it.

I must say I hate our diplomats. I think with few exceptions they are arrogant humbugs and I expect they know it.

What Mr. [Robert F.] Kennedy says lacks only the merit of being true ... Bobby Kennedy can jump off the capital dome or whatever else he has to do to get the attention of the American people.

Politics is a sucker’s game …

Nothing but a damn bunch of bullshit!

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

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

Hypocrisy needs to be called out in American politics, and the absurd has reached the point where it is just insufferable.

I say never trust a man who combs his hair so as to cover his shiny dome and then flaunts a wife young enough to be his daughter. Oh, Trump has issues all right.

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.

Hypocrites are more enraging than extremists, as every campaign operative knows.