Art Quote by Jonathan Turley

Diplomacy: lying in state.

— Oliver Herford

diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.

— Ambrose Bierce

Most governments lie to each other. That's the way business gets done.

— Robert M. Gates

Foreign governments want to lie to the American people.

— Conor Lamb

It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.

— Tom Clancy

The only real diplomacy ever performed by a diplomat is in deceiving their own people after their dumbness has got them into a war.

— Will Rogers

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

— Noam Chomsky

Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.

— Winston Churchill

All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

— I. F. Stone

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation

— Hilaire Belloc

It takes two things to make a political lie work: a powerful person or institution willing to utter it, and another set of powerful…

— Rick Perlstein

It seems that in the world of politics, lying is not such a big deal.

— Ali Larijani