Richard Grenell Quotes

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

The connection between humbug and politics is too long established to be challenged.

In politics there is a lot of spin—a lot of BS. My job is to cut through the BS.

Hypocrisy and rhetorical flimflam are standard in politics …

When a politician uses the word 'folks,' we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.

I think the truth is always interesting, but with politicians, you don't get to see much of that.

It is part of politics to make things look better than they really are. What is a spin doctor but a serial euphemiser?

The permanent campaign is inherently deceptive.

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

I think people involved in politics make good actors. Acting and politics both involve fooling people. People like being fooled by actors. When you get right down to it, they probably like being fooled by politicians even more. A skillful actor will make you think, but a skillful politician will make you never have to think.

Because I live and work in Washington, D.C., I have a ringside seat at the world capital of The Persuasive Arts, or, as I like to call it, The Opinions Racket.

There is a temptation in politics to look for simplistic slogans and to play the game in a way that looks like you're a savvy politician.

Politicians learn to turn the truth into something that they want the truth to be.

Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all of the time. But the Republicans haven't given up trying.

The “cant” of the politician, like the cant of the “religious” man, is also protean in its guise, but its chief method is to explain away words. The politician can always show you that he didn’t mean what he says, but something rather different from what he says. Political cant consists in pretending to agreement with hearers, whoever they may be. This cant is part of the stock-in-trade of every politician, be he Tory, Whig, or Radical, and it is by its means that he tries to haul in stray votes.

I have no more obligation to spin. When you’re in the White House, you spin.

Politics is power, and communications is power,

If you think the Obama White House and Ben Rhodes lying to the American people about Iran - and laughing about it - was bad, just wait until Hillary Clinton's spin doctors get hold of the media.

Officials in every White House crowbar the facts to make their cases.

I'm not into political gamesmanship.

Politicians pretend not to be smart.

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

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.

By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do.

Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.