Huey Long Quotes

These guys [Republicans] are the most crooked, you know, lying group I've ever seen.

A lot of times in politics you have people look you in the eye and tell you what's not on their mind.

Are you a politician or does lying just run in your family?

Professional politicians will say anything, and they're always careful to leave themselves room to turn around and do the other.

Hypocrisy is the vaseline of political intercourse.

The connection between humbug and politics is too long established to be challenged.

Administrations of both parties lie. The question is the weightiness of the lies.

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is. They are addicts, and they are guilty and they do lie and cheat and steal — like all junkies.

Politics isn't my cup of tea. I can't lie all the time, beg for votes or put down other politicians.

There's the disingenuous duplicitousness, but you can apply that to every politician, really.

A politician is required to listen to humbug, talk humbug, condone humbug. The most we can hope for is that we don't actually believe it.

I don't really want to hang out with politicians. I'd rather go straight to hell, and not collect $200.

I hate politics. What they say and what they do is completely different.

You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags.

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

He warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies

Bull permeates everything.... American people think politics and politicians are full of baloney.

There are at least eighty liars in the convention.

I believe it [the Republican Party] is today the most corrupt and debauched political party that ever existed.

In friendships, you expect total trust; in business you expect some dishonesty. But in politics, you not only expect distortion as a way of life but accept it with pleasure.

The issue between the Republicans and the Democrats is clearly drawn. It has been deliberately drawn by those who have been in charge of twenty years of treason.