Japanese Proverb Quotes

No public man can be just a little crooked.

There is hardly a single person in the House of Commons worth painting; though many of them would be better for a little whitewashing.

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.

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

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

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

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.

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

Well, I'm not a crook.

Everyone seems to be running against a liar, but nobody seems to be one. Odd - I mean, the math doesn't work out.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.

I think all politicians lie.

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.

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.

Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.

There's good and bad everywhere in any aspect in life. The only people who we can't really trust are politicians. Because those guys lie to everybody and constantly.

I'm the only honest person in Washington.

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

Our representatives are betrayers of the people.

… they seem to be such as would not swear, whore, nor be drunk, but they would lie, cozen and deceive.

He is only honest who is not discovered.