Zephyr Teachout Quotes

Things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth. Politicians might mention renewable energy, and the public will think, "That sounds good, but I don't believe they're going to do everything they can to build those towers."

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

I don't think people maybe think that the government does tell them the truth. I think they expect politicians who are going to tell them one thing and then when they get in office do something else.

Apparently there are not a whole lot of people there that have confidence. They are willing, apparently, to believe that Donald Trump's been lying to 'em all along, while, if you want to characterize it this way, how many years have they been lying to voters about their intentions on repealing and replacing Obamacare?

Always tell the truth, and people will never believe you.

But lies were what people wanted; that was politics.

According to a new poll, the number of Americans who trust Hillary is dropping. Specifically into a hole that Hillary covered with leaves.

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

If newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about art we should not believe in war, and we should believe in art.

Truth telling in politics is the mark of an inexperienced politician.

The definition of committing a gaff in Washington is telling the truth when most people think that you should not have.

In Washington telling the truth is a gaff.

The problem is not Watergate or the cover-up, It's that he hasn't been telling the truth to the American people. The tape makes it evident that he hasn't leveled with the country for probably eighteen months. And the President can't lead a country he has deliberately misled.

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

I'm appealing to voters by actually telling the truth.

I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.

A 'penchant for telling the truth' can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor's wife.

According to a new poll, 48 percent of Americans believe that Hillary Clinton is honest and trustworthy. Then Hillary said, 'Actually I just made that poll up.'

Now listen. You can't fool all the people all the time-- but I want you to try.

I believe the American people are looking for someone to speak the truth.

No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.

It amused me to think that one can tell the truth when one is drunk and nobody will believe it.

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done?

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.

We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.