Martha Griffiths Quotes

I did though at least expect him to correct the false statements he made when he was trying to protect the Presidency. Instead, he talked about it as though I had laid it all out there for the taking. I was the buffet and he just couldn't resist the dessert.

I think all politicians lie.

Any politician or campaigner trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the public won't get very far.

An excuse is sometimes more ugly than guilt.

People are very apt to shift the Blame off themselves, and lay it upon others, when perhaps they themselves are as much or more to blame. The popular Cry is against Merchants and Traders, as if they had ruined the Country; or against those who are or have been in the Government

It is less important to find solutions than scapegoats.

I'd request politicians to stop diverting attention from the actual issues that affect the country. Please stop resorting to soft targets like singers and musicians as scapegoats.

Politics is largely the process of taking credit and putting the blame on others - regardless of what the facts may be.

To err is human. To cover it up is weasel.

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.

Whether it is throwing people under the bus or writing a lie on the side of one: Britain deserves better than Boris Johnson.

In my experience in Washington, when people refuse to come clean, it is usually because they are hiding dirty laundry.

We are living in an age where it's difficult to know what the truth is and we have got politicians in charge who actually appear to not really care what the truth is.

Everybody is looking for a reason to not to take responsibility for their own actions in hand.

The cover-up, more than the initial wrongdoing, is what is most likely to bring you down.

If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.

I will reveal to the American people over and over and over again the Clinton way, say what you have to say to get elected, lie as long as you can get away with it.

The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've got responsibilities.

Having someone else to blame when there is a rude smell in the air.

I did nothing. The Word did it all.

Never underestimate a man's ability to make you feel guilty for his mistakes.

There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular one is Providence.

Blaming others is excusing yourself.

But, you know, when I look at somebody like Hillary Clinton, who sits there and tells her daughter and a government official that no, this was a terrorist attack, and then tells everybody else that it was a video. Where I came from, they call that a lie.

The usual pattern of demagogues is to promise the moon, fail to deliver, and then blame vulnerable others for those failures.