“If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.”
John LeCarre
“I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.”
Adlai E. Stevenson
“You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth”
Bertrand Russell
“Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires”
“A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.”
“Truth no longer matters in the context of politics and, sadly, in the context of cable news.”
Aaron Brown