David Hume Quotes

The nature of politics is to subtract meaning from language.

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

Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.

Under every stone lurks a politician

All political power is primarily an illusion …. Mirrors and blue smoke …

Truth is not the first casualty of war alone: it is the first casualty of populism.

We liked to think that polling and political analysis had become scientific, but this campaign changes all that.

Only in the Orwellian world of double-speak employed by President Barack Obama and billionaire elitist Michael Bloomberg would nonsense be hailed as 'common sense.'

When it comes to politics today, the devils' not in the details; the devil's in the big picture, more often than not just hiding in plain sight.

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.

A fundamental premise of politics is we can make this work if people just never figure it out.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all the people some of the time, which is just long enough to be president of the United States.

If often happens too, both in courts and in cabinets, that there are two things going on together,--a main plot and an under-plot; and he that understands only one of them will, in all probability, be the dupe of both. A mistress may rule a monarch, but some obscure favorite may rule the mistress.

I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic.

Politics is not about facts. It is about what politicians can get people to believe.

Officials in every White House crowbar the facts to make their cases.

Politics won't allow for the truth.

Yevtushenko is a high member of his country's establishment, and he lies terribly about the United States to his Russian readers.

It's better to be known as a puppet than pretend not to be a puppet like Nawaz Sharif.

I don't play politics.

More and more Canadians are seeing through Liberal deceptions.

I'm not into political gamesmanship.

Understanding government can be a complex business. The stated reason for a policy and the real reason for it are rarely the same.

There are so many families that are divided by Fox and Trump. I think a lot of people have been surprised by just how deep and how corrupt the roots are - how there's been collusion between Fox and Trump right in plain sight the whole time, and yet it's not often recognized.

Always taken Donald Trump seriously. I think people have underestimated him.