Daniel Pfeiffer Quotes

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.

We're all slight hypocrites who fall short of our ideals.

Everybody is a hypocrite. You can't live on this planet without being a hypocrite.

Governor [Myron] Herrick is not a bad man; he is simply weak. He is one of those men who can do dishonest things honestly.

The morality of [Donald] Trump’s lying didn’t bother me, but he is a stupid liar.

As soon as fear, hatred, jealousy and power worship are involved, the sense of reality becomes unhinged. And ... the sense of right and wrong becomes unhinged also. There is no crime, absolutely none, that cannot be condoned when ‘our’ side commits it. Even if one does not deny that the crime has happened, even if one knows that it is exactly the same crime as one has condemned in some other case, even if one admits in an intellectual sense that it is unjustified — still one cannot feel that it is wrong. Loyalty is involved, and so pity ceases to function.

Democrats justify anything they do against Trump as being righteous, even if it's morally wrong or even if it's illegal, because they're so driven to stop Trump.

There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves.

I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.

When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.

Many journalists seem to believe that we have become little different from our enemies.

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

Anyway, so here I was caught between Johnson on the one side, who was my leader, I was his whip, and here was my dear friend, personal friend, Kennedy, and they're going to go into my state and ruin it. What am I going to do?

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

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

I'm supposed to say, Bill O'Reilly, that's immoral - click - and then walk back in and book his A block the next day and have a fine day and everything be kosher? I don't think so.

They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.

In all the things I've gone through as a politician, I have seen that in this system it is really very difficult to make any headway without being somehow tainted. And let me say, 'Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.'

Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.

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

There is so much hypocrisy in sports.

Political correctness is about denial, usually in the weasel circumlocutory jargon which distorts and evades and seldom stands up to honest analysis.

When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed.

Inconsistency on the part of pastors and the faithful between what they say and what they do, between word and manner of life, is undermining the Church's credibility.

A little hypocrisy is better than losing.