Amplify Quote by Rick Perlstein

Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?

— Voltaire

Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it's troubling.

— David Geffen

Politicians often lie.

— Paul Weyrich

In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.

— Youssou N'Dour

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

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

Lying is a cooperative act. Think about it. A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance. Its power emerges when someone else…

— Pamela Meyer

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

— Ali Larijani

The Big Lie is a major untruth uttered frequently by leaders as a means of duping and controlling the constituency.

— Adolf Hitler

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

— Hilaire Belloc

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

— Pat Paulsen

But lies were what people wanted; that was politics.

— Kim Stanley Robinson