A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

I do not believe we will have a war with Iran.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew’s cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo’s choice to know the truth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful story.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

I don’t think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.

It’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail.

It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

Politics is applesauce.

Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies… if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

In matters of truth the fact that you don’t want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

I don’t think I would run for president.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Richard Nixon was an evil man – evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

If you’re lying, you’re lying.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

The label ‚liberal‘ or ‚conservative,‘ any – every time I hear that, I think of the great Gilbert and Sullivan song from ‚Iolanthe.‘ It goes, ‚Every gal and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.‘ What do those labels mean? It depends on whose ox is being gored.

I am such a political person.

One thing you gotta know about me is I have absolutely no filter. I have no problem saying what the hell I think of someone.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

You don’t have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

The President’s post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‚Present‘ or ‚Not guilty.‘

I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I’m telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Through my films I’m eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get there, but I’m slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I’m 85, I’ll look back and say, ‚All right, that about sums it up.‘

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

It isn’t generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn’t generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it’s in the nature of hierarchy.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

Hillary doesn’t play. She has more experience and exposure to the presidency than any candidate in our lifetime – yes, more than Barack, more than Bill. So she is absolutely ready to be Commander-in-Chief on day one. And, yes, she happens to be a woman.