Political Duplicity Quotes

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Politicians, it's in their job description to just lie, every day.

... a grand national joke ... the greatest political Mr. Facingbothways this country has ever had.

As far as I'm concerned, all politicians are fake people.

There's an old saying in politics: You never run the same race twice. Democrats are running the same race three, four, five times. It's an old ploy, and Coloradans see through it.

So is there a difference between Democrats and Republicans? Sure. The Democrats say one thing ("Save the planet!") and then do another--quietly holding hands behind the scenes with the bastards who make this world a dirtier, meaner place. The Republicans just come right out and give the bastards a corner office in the West Wing. That's the difference.

You never know with politicians what they are really saying. And I don't say that in a negative way-they have an appalling job.

Hypocrisy and rhetorical flimflam are standard in politics …

I have become increasingly used to the Tory party mimicking our policies and phrases in a desperate effort to pretend to their members they are still Eurosceptic.

What's really amusing is that you see - when you look at everybody's statements that - on both sides of the aisle, they've talked out of both sides of their mouth, depending on who's in power and who's not.

Prime Minister, I see you've already mastered the essential craft of the European politician, namely, the ability to say one thing in this chamber and a very different thing to your home electorate.

The idea that Donald Trump is a conservative is a complete farce. He is a conman who pretends to be a conservative.

I have been instructed by cabinet and caucus members at our last secret meeting that we need more openness in government, but, like, not too much.

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.

We never heard a politician so desperate not to offend conventional elite opinion while pretending to be fearless and forthright.

A wartime Minister of Information is compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair must grow to resemble a wig.