Fooling People Quotes

You can fool some of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time. That’s usually enough.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

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

You don't need to fool all of the people all of the time. You only need to fool the majority of the people once every four years or so.

Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.

No one party can fool all of the people all of the time; that's why we have two parties

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.

I keep fooling people into giving me jobs, and now I'm on Broadway. It's always something I've wanted to be a part of, and I can't believe that this is the experience I'm having.

I catch myself every once in a while doing that weird thing that I see famous people do, where they have sunglasses and hats on and grow out beards thinking that they're fooling people. Dude, you're not fooling anyone: you look just like you.

I think if I was fooling the people, over 35 years of it now, I would've been caught already fooling them.

The indispensability of reason does not imply that individual people are always rational or are unswayed by passion and illusion. It only means that people are capable of reason, and that a community of people who choose to perfect this faculty and to exercise it openly and fairly can collectively reason their way to sounder conclusions in the long run. As Lincoln observed, you can fool all of the people some of the time, and you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

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.