Quotes About Politicians Lying

#1. I wouldn't mind politicians lying to me, stealing from me, or senselessly making life difficult if they didn't try to claim they were looking out for my best interest. How refreshing it'd be to see a politician honest enough to admit he's dishonest.

Jarod Kintz

#2. No doubt, corporate CEOs who lie to their shareholders and politicians who lie to their public know and believe intellectually that lying is immoral. Why then do they lie? They lie to others because they first lie to themselves.

Lewis B. Smedes

#3. Politicians don't lie, they misspeak. And they don't steal, they mispocket.

Robert Breault

#4. I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless, robots who protect them and their property.

Assata Shakur

#5. Truth will never shine from a heart filled with corruption and lies.

Suzy Kassem

#6. With attention deficit democracy, I am trying to wake up people to how the combination of mass ignorance, fear mongering by the government, and lying politicians is putting our entire system of government to a death spiral.

James Bovard

#7. The truth is every problem can't be solved by government. Many are caused by the moral breakdown in our society. And the answers to those challenges lie primarily in our families and our faiths, not our politicians.

Marco Rubio

#8. Rock helps me communicate directly with the people because rock doesn't lie, and people are fed up with lying politicians.

Amado Boudou

#9. British politicians used to be good at misleading people without actually lying.

Tim Harford

#10. Politicians who wish to succeed must be prepared to dissemble, at times to lie. All deceit is bad. In politics some deceit or moral dishonesty is the oil without which the machinery would not work.

Woodrow Wyatt

#11. People who refuse to accept unpleasant truths have no right to complain about politicians who lie to them. What other kind of candidates would such people elect?

Thomas Sowell

#12. It's funny, after a while, you get tired of having to fight someone because they don't like the way you look.

Chris Robinson

#13. To be honest, I find most politicians very untrustworthy. When I listen to them talking - or rather, lying - I just feel there are very few politicians with integrity, so I never know who to bat for.

Jamie Sives

#14. Politicians are people who learn not to blink, when they lie.

Robert Black

#15. My father had a deep and lifelong contempt for politicians in general ("They tell lies," he used to say with wonder, "even when they don't have to").

Gore Vidal

#16. We had become a race of eccentrics and openly declared an array of singular whims and suspicions, at least while daylight allowed this audacity.

Thomas Ligotti

#17. The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse: You cannot post "Thou shalt not steal," "Thou shalt not commit adultery," and "Thou shalt not lie" in a building full of lawyers, judges, and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment.

George Carlin

#18. We contradict all for which we stand for we all stand for the lie the whole lie and nothing but the lie so help save our lying asses.

Brian Spellman

#19. In Massachusetts they [Democratic politicians] steal, in California they feud, and in New York they lie.

Robert Kennedy

#20. I am afraid, my dear niece, that a 'mere woman' is something you most certainly are not.

Katlyn Charlesworth

#21. You know there's no crooked politicians. There's never a lie because there is never any truth.

Lenny Bruce

#22. I come from a generation of sceptics, who do not believe what politicians say. The Labour Party wants to convince people through actions, not words. The Nationalist party have given the country 25 years of lies, the Labour Party will build the country anew.

Joseph Muscat

#23. I must choose my words carefully in order to avoid any negative interpretation. Among politicians, this is a tactic known as lying.

Pat Paulsen

#24. Honoring the sacrifices many have made for our country in the name of freedom and democracy is the very foundation of Veterans Day.

Charles B. Rangel

#25. I suppose if we gain anything from this unsought experience it will be an appreciation for honesty- frankness on the part of our politicians, our friends, our loves, ourselves. No more liars in public places. (And the bed and the bar are, in their way, as public as the floor of Congress.)

Tim O'Brien

#26. When the effects of female jealousy do not appear openly in their proper colours of rage and fury, we may suspect that mischievous passion to be at work privately, and attempting to undermine, what it doth not attack above-ground.

Henry Fielding

#27. With politicians, artful evasion is always preferable to the outright lie.

Molly Ivins

#28. This principle that judges are not politicians lies at the very heart of a judicial job - of the judicial job description.

Orrin Hatch