Political Propaganda Quotes

Instead of debating whether or not Russia attempted to influence the 2016 elections - in ways that ranged from encouraging incorrect voting methods to promoting fake rallies to sharing false election stories - Americans should be debating how to counter this activity.

No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.

Feminism is liberalism, and look at what it's doing, look at what it's promoting, look at what it's condoning. All the while, we have to live in this lie that there's some sort of Republican War on Women. We don't do this to women! We don't objectify women like this.

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.

We have seen the corrupting effects of a deliberate propaganda campaign driven by fake news.

The more powerful government becomes, the more abuses it commits and the more lies it must tell.

It’s like a presidential press conference. Information goes in and information goes out, but there is not necessarily a connection between the two.

Politicians are often tempted to deploy history as a weapon against each other.

Hillary Clinton has an entire media empire that constantly demonizes Donald Trump, fails to point out several signs of illness by her.

You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.

I run the Daily Express purely for propaganda and for no other purpose.

For years, President Obama has chastised Republicans, used immigrants as props for political purposes, and time and again deflected responsibility from his own party's failure to act on immigration reform.

The nation whose population depends on the explosively compressed headline service of television news can expect to be exploited by the demagogues and dictators who prey upon the semi-informed.

There's all kinds of crazy right-wing conspiracies about me.

When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won't tell you the evidence, and when anyone asks, they say, 'Well, you know: It's secret.'

When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

So often on CNN, there's a world-class journalist interviewing campaign rejects and ideologues and silly, craven people who do not care about informing people, that aren't there to help people understand what's going on in the news.

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

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

The political misrepresentation of facts is one of the incidents of a free press in every free country.

WARNING: POLITICAL ADVERTISING CAN LEGALLY DISTORT THE TRUTH.

Only al-Jazeera is allowed to report from Zimbabwe, but it is unwatchable. Their Zimbabwean reporter Supa Mandiwanzira was one of Zanu-PF's praise-singers at the reviled Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation.

The art of politics, under democracy, is simply the art of ringing it. Two branches reveal themselves. There is the art of the demagogue, and there is the art of what may be called, by a shot-gun marriage of Latin and Greek, the demaslave. They are complementary, and both of them are degrading to their practitioners. The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. The demaslave is one who listens to what these idiots have to say and then pretends that he believes it himself.

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

Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.