Jim Bolger Quotes

You think you know her. Just wait and see the change. I'll have her trained in no time.

When you have critics filing on Twitter, it leaves no time for thought and perspective.

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

...the liberty of the Press is called the Palladium of Freedom, which means, in these days, the liberty of being deceived, swindled, and humbugged by the Press and paying hugely for the deception.

When I talk about the polling, I'm talking about the principles. It shows these officials are knowingly attempting to shift public opinion, even though they know what they say is not factual.

In the 'bullshit department' a businessman can't hold a candle to a clergyman.

In any combat between a rogue and a fool the sympathy of mankind is always with the rogue.

Why do I think the polls were wrong? People were relying on the pollsters. There was "the Brexit Effect." I think there's a Trump Effect, too. I think people are lying to the pollsters about Trump. There isn't any question about it.

The sham engineers of the music industry, who steer the wheels of public opinion, are driving the good features of calypso into the ground. I shudder to think what these greedy men will eventually do to this true art form.

Never give a good politician time to pray.

In history-as-politics, the 'future' is that vacuum in time waiting to be filled with the antics of statesmen.

It is not propaganda’s task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.

So which is the lie? Hard or soft? Silence or time?

If you repeat something long enough people believe it's what happened.

Politics and hypocrites is turning us all into lunatics.

The truth is . . . you think what people want you to think.

The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive

There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.

...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery.

It's a lot easier to convince uninformed people than it is to convince politicians.

We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the handful of those who are really determined to do something is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm and the misguided. And those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going are a very powerful body; they will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends.

Deception is one of the quickest ways to gain little things and lose big things.

The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.