Evasion Quote by Molly Ivins Download Open image “With politicians, artful evasion is always preferable to the outright lie.” — Molly Ivins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Evasion Lying Politician Politics
Every politician, in order to be a politician, has to be adept at the art of one and one thing only, and that is… — David Draiman Copy Share Image
I'm a politician, and as a politician I have the prerogative to lie whenever I want. — Charlie Peacock Copy Share Image
Politicians who wish to succeed must be prepared to dissemble, at times to lie. All deceit is bad. In politics some deceit or moral… — Woodrow Wyatt 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
To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special… — Peter Schuyler Copy Share Image
The truth is always easier than a lie or an evasion - easier to deal with and easier to live with. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I see it all the time in politics. If a candidate gets caught in a lie, he quickly tries to change the subject by… — Joe Scarborough Copy Share Image
Preemptive war is what Israel did in '67 with Arab armies on its borders. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The idols of one's adolescence tend to endure - you never forget how you worshipped them. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
To mistake Midland for the volk heartland is the West Texas equivalent of assuming that Greenwich, Connecticut, is Levittown. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Even for southerners, Arkansans are amazingly friendly and extend hospitality to all strangers with astonishing openness. You couldn't find a pretension in that state… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
It's hard to convince people that you're killing them for their own good. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
the pyramids were built for pharaohs on the happy theory that they could take their stuff with them. Versailles was built for kings on… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
During a recent panel on the numerous failures of American journalism, I proposed that almost all stories about government should begin: “Look out! They're… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
We will also target tax evasion and off-shore tax havens... Everyone must pay their share. — George Osborne Copy Share Image
The United States can certainly defeat North Vietnam, but the United States cannot defeat a guerrilla war which is being raged from a sanctuary… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“A politician often uses an example or analogy as an attempt to make us forget the question he or she is supposedly answering.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Tony Cox, still a painter and not yet married to Yoko Ono, pioneered in the use of mescaline for draft-evasion. 400 milligrams taken before… — Peter Stafford Copy Share Image
Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself civilization, in a word is the fruits of the creative artist. It is… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed. It matters little,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
