Richard Ojeda Quotes

Politician is a term of reproach.

Congress—these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with gravy of political patronage.

Politicians have no politics.

I consider it a great homage to public opinion to find every scoundrel nowadays professing himself a liberal.

I'm setting the record straight - Chuck Schumer is nothing but a political animal who symbolizes all that's wrong with American politics.

There's the disingenuous duplicitousness, but you can apply that to every politician, really.

You know there's no crooked politicians. There's never a lie because there is never any truth.

Under every stone lurks a politician

Bull permeates everything.... American people think politics and politicians are full of baloney.

Here lies the body of the Republican party — Corrupt, and generally speaking, hearty.

Any politician that can’t take people’s money and then turn around and screw them, doesn’t belong in the business.

... a grand national joke ... the greatest political Mr. Facingbothways this country has ever had.

In this cold and ruthless city [Washington DC] the center of hypocrisy is Capitol Hill

I believe it [the Republican Party] is today the most corrupt and debauched political party that ever existed.

Politics—where they pat you on the back so they'll know where to stick the knife.

That the politicians are permitted to carry on the same old disgraceful campaign from year to year is as insulting to the people as would be a gang of thieves coming back to a town they had robbed, staging a parade, and inviting the citizens to fall in and cheer.

In friendships, you expect total trust; in business you expect some dishonesty. But in politics, you not only expect distortion as a way of life but accept it with pleasure.

I loathe the professional politician. I have never been a regular. I have fought political machines and party politics at every opportunity.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad name.

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.[

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree and then mount the stump to make a speech for conservation.

There is nothing more frightening to a political satirist than an honest administration.

It has now become the doctrine of a large class of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

All governments lie, including our own—under Democrats and Republicans.

I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to.