Political Insincerity Quotes

Trump might have a populist message that resonates with some voters, but the man doesn't care about any of the people he's appealing to.

All politicians are bores and liars and fakes. I talk to people.

Hillary Clinton is driving across Iowa in a van. It's to get to know the people she'll never, ever see again in her life.

... a grand national joke ... the greatest political Mr. Facingbothways this country has ever had.

If any politician tells you he likes campaigning, you are either dealing with a liar or a psychopath.

Public officials insult our intelligence and our goodwill when they paint rosy pictures about budgets, jobs, bipartisanship, and transparency, and alter their positions on issues simply to keep collecting their paycheck by never disagreeing or disappointing anyone.

As far as I'm concerned, all politicians are fake people.

Concerned we're in a time where politicians can't even fake sincerity. Aren't they supposed to be good at that?

I never believe any politician talking about popular culture.

Real affection comes from the face. Those political leaders, when they meet, they are always hugging, but not very genuine. Deep, sincerity comes from face and eye.

Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.

Washington always has a high level of hypocrisy, right, but I think the level of hypocrisy that has come out of the United States Senate on both sides of the aisle is amazing.

There's a lot of insincerity about the actions of our legislators; they create distractions - like this anti-gay law you alluded to - and try to mobilise, to exacerbate people's emotions. Until the legislators started making laws, people minded, generally, their own business.

If I was to interrupt this article every few sentences, asking you whether or not I was making a good impression on you, I hope and believe that you would think I was a servile jerk. Yet this is what our politicians are doing in every speech.

I can't stand politicians who wear God on their sleeves.

[…] our world is far too indulgent of politicians saying blatantly insincere things.

Newt Gingrich and his fellow conservative Republicans talked a good game but, despite the lip service they offered about poverty and race and other social issues, they didn't really mean it.

In today's politics, it would be good to have politicians who are more upfront about what they felt and actually not trying to bend with every breeze. They're infuriating, all of them.

One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office.

I have never seen John Kerry give anything but an engineered response.

Patrick Morrisey means nothing to me. He is a bootlicker. If shoe polish was poison, he'd be dead.

You ask politicians a question, and they have an answer. It's almost like the more articulate the answer, the more something feels wrong because that question takes thought.

The American people are not fools. They will sense it even if they cannot articulate it precisely when a candidate or party appears to be placing its political bets on continued bad news for the nation. And they will never forgive such a candidate or party.

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

I see Hillary [Clinton] as a calculating politician without any vision. It depends what the next thing is that they calculate she needs to say.