Definitions Quote by Michael Kinsley Download Open image “The definition of a gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.” — Michael Kinsley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Definitions Inspirational Politician Politics Telling the truth Truth
A gaffe is a politician inadvertently telling an inconvenient truth. — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
Someone once noted that a 'gaffe' in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth. — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Gaffe-focused journalism: revenge of intelligent people who know true evils are out there but lack the access/time to get to them. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
A politician normally flatters you in your face and criticises you behind your back. — Sanjaya Baru Copy Share Image
I must choose my words carefully in order to avoid any negative interpretation. Among politicians, this is a tactic known as lying. — Pat Paulsen Copy Share Image
“The truth is 'what is.' If 'what is' is, you have to sleep eight, ten hours a day, that is the truth. A lie… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull. — Rachel Johnson Copy Share Image
A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself. — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
“The way I see it, all politicians are one of three things: liars, crooks or pricks.” — Eli Yance Copy Share Image
Confucius say... politician is one who shakes your hand before elections and your confidence after. — Confucius Copy Share Image
He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage… — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
Almost any government activity can also be seen as taking property without just compensation. The basic model of an unconstitutional aking would be if… — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
Journalistic conventions make it hard for reporters to deal with a big, complicated lie. — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
He hasn't said whether he remembers the episode itself - or, if he doesn't, whether that is because it never happened or because it… — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
What could be more absurd than the idea that genuine anti-Christian prejudice is a major force in American politics. — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
The takings clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals. — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the… — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
One answer is that the town's elected officials thought that the project served a public purpose and that the various subsidies and favors were… — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy. — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
The case decided on Thursday, though, seemed promising to takings fans because it wasn't about compensation. It was about the requirement that any government… — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
Almost any government activity can also be seen as taking property 'without just compensation.' The basic model of an unconstitutional 'taking' would be if… — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
When the first Superman movie came out I was frequently asked "What is a hero?" ...My answer was that a hero is someone who… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Bruce Katz is a spectacular talent! He's a brilliant composer and arranger who uses uncommon and unique musical intelligence to redefine jazz and blues… — Larry Coryell Copy Share Image
But when you have to deal with notes, and to be able to make a full definition of what a sound is - if… — Dennis Brown Copy Share Image
The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself]… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Before I had kids, I thought you should never lie to a kid. But now I've had them, I realize you almost lie to… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
my definition of the ideal man is 'that particular man with whom a woman happens to be in love at that particular time. — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
He emphasised basic truths: you are not dying yet, you have to live your life until you are. Underpinning them was the belief that… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.' — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
Was man made stupid to see his own stupidity? Is God by definition indifferent, beyond us all? Is the eternal truth man's fighting soul… — Richard Eberhart Copy Share Image
Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
![“The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself] can become a symbol of the self. For this reason the symbol of the self is not always as total as the definition would require.” quote by Carl Jung](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/251/carl-jung-274_defined_the-self-is-defined-psychologically-as-t_7148.jpg)
