Wendell Phillips Quotes

I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

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.

Living in Washington, you can't take politics too seriously. I draw the line at honesty. I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to.

It's not that I'm universally loved. We know I'm not in New Jersey. But what they do say in New Jersey is, 'We like him, and we think he's telling us the truth.' I think we need to have that type of politics on the national level.

If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.

A lot of young women ask me, 'Can you go into politics and maintain your ideals?' Well, I think you can. You might not, in any one interview, tell the whole truth, but to deliberately deceive the public who've elected you is totally unacceptable.

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

There is a difference between the typical politician and the statesman. A typical politician is that person who tells people what people want to hear, while the statesman tells people what people need to know.

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

Presidential politics has to be about truth telling and not pandering to the public.

He [William Clinton] has terrible trouble with the truth. I don’t think Presidents should have trouble with the truth.

For politicians truth and falsehood are unimportant. So I never could become a politician - not even a church politician.

I don't want to appease everyone. It seems very difficult to be steadfast on truth and be a politician.

In the 13 months I've been in the Senate, it has become apparent to me the single thing that Republican politicians hate and fear the most, and that is when they're forced to tell the truth. It makes their heads explode.

My policy has always been to say what I believe to be in the best interest of the American people and hope the voters agree, or at least will respect my honesty.

For much of my career I had no authentic political voice. I had been campaigning all over the country not to change the world or shake up my audiences but to please the roomful of people to whom I was speaking... As a result, my words rarely had the ring of truth to the nonpolitical observer.

Maybe its time for politicians to fight back a little bit in terms of this notion that politicians are all in it for themselves, we're all the same, we're not driven by sincere motives. Because the fact of the matter is the vast majority are.

Politicians... say what they say - you might get every now and again a genuine one, innit? But I think people, like, as a whole make the difference.

As candidates and elected officials, we have an obligation to be honest.

The one thing we have that the other parties do not have is a political integrity. No one thinks you join the Green party because you're politically ambitious, or have your own agenda.

I work for the British people. I do not gather intelligence so the government can lie to the British people.

You can be a namby-pamby leftie, a gun-toting neo-con, or a soft, indecisive moderate. I really don't care. Just don't lie to me.

Voters aren't asking to be pandered to and aren't asking to be tricked.

I think if there's anything that's important today, it's credibility with the voter, because the voter is tired of being sold a bill of goods.

I think in terms of who can be trusted, I think the evidence is clear that there has been no candidate that I have ever seen who lies more often than does Donald Trump. I mean and that's just not me saying it, that's what any independent media analysis has shown. So in terms of trust, you really can't trust a word, I think, that Mr. Trump has to say.