John Sununu Quotes

Politicians are masters of the art of deception.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

Sometimes hyperbole and lying are not easily distinguishable [in politics].

More and more Canadians are seeing through Liberal deceptions.

They've lied about everything.-about the fence, and the existence of Invalids, about a million other things besides. They told us the raids were carried out for our own protection. They told us the regulators were only interested in keeping the peace. They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end. For the very first time I realize, that this, too, maight also be a lie.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people. But, he certainly is among the most accomplished at it.

When people see political ads, they think someone's lying to them.

In politics, not all lies are all lies. And not all truths are complete.

In politics where immediate success is attained by saying what people can be made to believe, rather than what is demonstrably true, accent is generally placed on the desirable rather than on the possible.

That product of the human intelligence which we denominate the Campaign Lie, though it did not originate in the United States, has here attained a development unknown in other lands. It is the destiny of America to try all experiments and exhaust all follies. In the short space of seventy-seven years, we have exhausted the efficiency of falsehood uttered to keep a man out of office.

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership. There can be no mass movement without some deliberate misrepresentation of facts.

The Lie Factory

People where we come from hear so many lies that the truth stands out like a sore thumb.

My generation feels it has been lied to a great deal.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.

We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.

When I was knowingly misled but only learned that much later, that's really when I started to become disillusioned at the White House.

In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.

Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.

Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.