Oscar Wilde Quotes

Politics has become beyond acceptable when it comes to humanity. People are just frozen in falsehood.

I think all politicians lie.

To expect integrity or honesty in a politician is like trying to buy fish at a produce market.

In Indian politics, deception seems a byword. I'll have none of that.

[Richard M. Nixon was] a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement.

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

If you do not know how to lie, cheat and steal, turn your attention to politics and learn.

Most of us in Congress steal our speeches.

Ronald Reagan is not a typical politician because he doesn't know how to lie, cheat, and steal. He's always had an agent for that.

The Capitol Building should have a sign saying, “Warning!! You are now Entering an Ethics-Free Zone!”

Surely we don’t want the President to lie, we don’t want our senators to lie, we don’t want our congressmen to lie. But sometimes they do.

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

Politics is so corrupt that even the dishonest people get fucked.

They spend us into the dirt and lie like crazy, and, my gosh, I have never seen an opponent who just lies like he's taking a drinking of water like Terry McAuliffe. It is nothing to him.

Hypocrisy needs to be called out in American politics, and the absurd has reached the point where it is just insufferable.

That's a compliment reserved only for politicians. You never hear someone say, 'You know what I love about my accountant? He's just a normal guy.' That's how low the bar is for people in politics.

You figure they cheat at the ballpark, they'll cheat on the golf course, they'll cheat in business, and anything else in life. Players may laugh about it and say it's funny, but right down in their heart, they don't think it's funny at all, and they have no respect for a person who cheats.

Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty.

I think it's very easy to get corrupted.

The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.