Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [61-80] of 308 Deception quotesDeception QuotesDeception Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes There's just no such thing as truth when it comes to him. He just says whatever sounds good and worries about it after the election.~ Bill Clinton We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans...~ Bill Clinton The other thing we have to do is to take seriously the role in this problem of...older men who prey on underage women...There are consequences to decisions and...one way or the other, people always wind up being held accountable.~ Bill Clinton Every time Bush talks about trust it makes chills run up and down my spine. The way he has trampled on the truth is a travesty of the American political system.~ Bill Clinton It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is.~ Bill Clinton The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people.~ Bill Clinton It depends on what the meaning of the word is. If the– if he– if "is" means is and never has been, that is not– that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement.... Now, if someone had asked me on that day, are you having any kind of sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky, that is, asked me a question in the present tense, I would have said no. And it would have been completely true.~ Bill Clinton No one wants to get this (Lewinsky) matter behind us more than I do, except maybe all the rest of the American people,~ Bill Clinton This is revolution in reaction, as well as in radicalism, and Toryism speaking a jargon of law and order may often be a graver menace to liberty than radicalism bellowing the empty phrases of the soapbox demagogue.~ Frank I. Cobb Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.~ Charles Caleb Colton We consistently have adhered to the principle that the will of the people is the paramount consideration. Our goal today…[is] to reach the result that reflects the will of the voters…. The laws are intended to facilitate and safeguard the right of each voter to express his or her will in the context of our representative democracy. Technical statutory requirements must not be exalted over the substance of this right.~ Florida Supreme Court It is discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.~ Noel Coward There is a de facto “secret government” operating nationally and internationally and involved in the highest circles of the U.S. government, exercising an impact over domestic policies and economics ranging between extreme influence to, at times, outright control. This extreme influence to outright control naturally includes the Presidency. The de facto “secret government,” much of whose intellectual—and financial—muscle are to be found in the New York office of the CFR, the great tax-free foundations, and certain international firms and corporations.~ Mike Culbert It takes a long time to understand nothing.~ Edward Dahlberg Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to. ~ Theodore Dalrymple Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.~ Frank Dane I have never seen more senators express discontent with their jobs. ... I think the major cause is that, deep down in our hearts, we have been accomplices to doing something terrible and unforgivable to this wonderful country. Deep down in our hearts, we know that we have bankrupted America and that we have given our children a legacy of bankruptcy. ... We have defrauded our country to get ourselves elected.~ John C. Danforth In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.~ Charles de Gaulle The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income from the richer to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of power from the individual to the State.~ Bertrand de Jouvenel Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.~ François Duc de La Rochefoucauld Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print