Joe Garcia Quotes

All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.

To expect integrity or honesty in a politician is like trying to buy fish at a produce market.

Our lie is like a cancer that's spread to every single area of our lives.

We are, in effect, being led from disaster to disaster by a headless horseman run amok with stuffed pockets and an empty conscience.

Civilizations do not collapse because the citizenry are corrupt or lazy or anti-intellectual. These people do not have the power and influence to either lead or destroy. Civilizations collapse when those who have power fail to do their jobs.

A half truth is a whole lie.

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

The investigation has shown, let us hope, privilege at its worst. The trail is one of dishonesty, greed, violation of law, secrecy, concealment, evasion, falsehood, and cunning. It is a trail of betrayals by trusted and presumably honorable men--betrayals of a government, of certain business interests and the people who trusted and honored them; it is a trail showing a flagrant degree of the exercise of political power and influence, and the power and influence of great wealth upon individuals and political parties; it is the trail of despoilers and schemers, far more dangerous to the well-being of our Nation and our democracy than all those who have been deported

One to mislead the public, another to mislead the Cabinet, and the third to mislead itself.

Secrecy in government, in the public mind, becomes synonymous with deception in government.

Every government of the world has the seeds of its own destruction in itself.

It takes two to corrupt – the corrupted and the corrupter.

Absolute power should never be trusted to man. It has perverted the wisest heads, and corrupted the best hearts in the world. I should be afraid to commit my property, liberty and life to a body of angels for one whole year.

[Theodore Roosevelt] has sold himself to the devil and will live up to the bargain.

Right here in this heart and home and fountain-head of law--in this great factory where are forged those rules that create good order and compel virtue and honesty in the other communities of the land, rascality achieves its highest perfection. Here rewards are conferred for conniving at dishonesty, but never for exposing it

Nothing is more certain than that a general profligacy and corruption of manners make a people ripe for destruction. A good form of government may hold the rotten materials together for some time, but beyond a certain pitch, even the best constitution will be ineffectual, and slavery must ensue.

The root cause was a perfect storm. A monsoon of gullibility colliding with a tidal wave of greed.

Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

Politics has become beyond acceptable when it comes to humanity. People are just frozen in falsehood.

I am going to help show the American people that they too cannot trust him, that this is a man that does not live up to his promises, and this is a man who cheated students in the so-called Trump University.

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

Tolerating organized crime promotes the cheap philosophy that everything is a racket. It promotes cynicism among adults. It contributes to the confusion of the young and to the increase of juvenile delinquency.

I think, basically, if you talk to anybody, you can gauge an idea of what it's like to feel deceived. You don't have to have run into a con artist to feel like you've been deceived by someone.

When you're surrounded by a world of constant lies, manipulation, and deceit, that dark energy is bound to seep into you eventually.