Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

I would feel insulted if you called me a politician. Politicians here in Africa do not have a good reputation.

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

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

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.

You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags.

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.

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.

… a lying crook in the Presidency

The cynical impudence with which the reformers have tried to manufacture an ideal statesman out of the late shady politician beats anything in novel-writing. They are making popular capital. They lie and maneuver just like candidates for office. The independents and reformers are as bad as the late lamented, and for the same reason. It pays.[

They [the Republicans] are the most crooked, lying bunch I have ever seen.

Politics - I still think it's a bunch of liars and a bunch of self-interest. It's not about the people: it's about themselves and their rise to power. They are voting on things based on whether they will have the support of the people when they vote next time. They don't have the balls to say, 'I believe in this. I don't care what happens.'

You can't blame anyone for being cynical about politicians.

I hate politics. What they say and what they do is completely different.

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

I think all politicians lie.

I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

Politicians are masters of the art of deception.

Under every stone lurks a politician

Politician is a term of reproach.

... the trouble is, once you give in to a Voting Bloc, you become an addict. Just about every politician in New York is a political junkie.

I have the disease called politics.

Politics. The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

Politics, as an end in itself, is a poor business to be in.