Morgan Neville Quotes

Hypocrisy and rhetorical flimflam are standard in politics …

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

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.[

The “cant” of the politician, like the cant of the “religious” man, is also protean in its guise, but its chief method is to explain away words. The politician can always show you that he didn’t mean what he says, but something rather different from what he says. Political cant consists in pretending to agreement with hearers, whoever they may be. This cant is part of the stock-in-trade of every politician, be he Tory, Whig, or Radical, and it is by its means that he tries to haul in stray votes.

A lot of times in politics you have people look you in the eye and tell you what's not on their mind.

Professional politicians will say anything, and they're always careful to leave themselves room to turn around and do the other.

Some politicians denounce government in order to capture the government and then they turn around and expand the government.

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

The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does.

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

Politicians are part fake, part substance.

I'm not into political gamesmanship.

While the Obama White House is completely incompetent and weak, they know how to spin everyday Americans.

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.

I'm not going to be one of those guys who changes, and all of a sudden I'm shaking hands and kissing babies.

There's nothing more oily and cynical in politics than telling the truth.

[Politicians] - they'll give you everything you want to your face - and then, as you walk away, they'll shoot you in the back because it's fun to watch you die.

A politician is required to listen to humbug, talk humbug, condone humbug. The most we can hope for is that we don't actually believe it.

I don't know a lot about politics. I like talking about human behavior. Politicians are funny to me because they often say one thing and behave a different way.

I think the truth is always interesting, but with politicians, you don't get to see much of that.

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

In politics you learn to always smile.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

There's something just so kind of smooth about politicians.