Coming Quote by Noam Chomsky

Politicians always think they know what people feel. It's a fallacy, because there is no such thing as 'the people.' It is a discursive…

— Stuart Hall

It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.

— Barney Frank

Anybody who is in a position to serve this country ought to understand the consequences of words.

— George W. Bush

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

— Pat Paulsen

Anybody who says, "Look, John, I'm a politician. Don't believe a word I say," is a friend of mine.

— John Lydon

“[…] being called a 'bad citizen' is a compliment to a novelist, at least to my mind. That's exactly what we ought to do.…

— Don DeLillo

A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself.

— Storm Jameson

People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek…

— Vladimir Lenin

“People don't have the imagination to understand politicians. People are too innocent”

— Halldór Laxness

“People who insist on dividing the world into 'Us' and 'Them' never contemplate that they may be someone else's 'Them'.”

— Ray A. Davis

If you are an [American] politician it's very hard to imagine. "Now we are going to treat these guys as our equals? That's ridiculous.…

— Hooman Majd

As politicians, we're very, very much trained to say something and stick with it.

— Justin Trudeau