A Quote by Michael Kinsley

A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.

Michael Kinsley

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Truth Politician Tells

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Michael Kinsley
American - Journalist
Born: March 9, 1951

The definition of a gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.

Michael Kinsley

Someone once noted that a 'gaffe' in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.

Jonah Goldberg

A gaffe is a politician inadvertently telling an inconvenient truth.

Michael Kinsley

Washington is the only place in the world where a gaffe is when a politician accidently speaks the truth.

Charles Krauthammer

Canada has always been ready for the truth. I think they actually appreciate a politician or anybody as a leader who tells the truth.

Kevin O'Leary

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

Joe Biden

It is hard to say which is the greatest fool: he who tells the whole truth, or he who tells no truth at all. Character is as necessary in business as in trade. No man can deceive often in either.

Lord Chesterfield

For politicians truth and falsehood are unimportant. So I never could become a politician - not even a church politician.

Martin Niemoller

Make sure of two things. Be careful - microphones are always hot, and understand that in Washington, D.C., a gaffe is when you tell the truth. So, be careful.

Joe Biden

We writers – and especially writers for children, but all writers – have an obligation to our readers: it's the obligation to write true things, especially important when we are creating tales of people who do not exist in places that never were – to understand that truth is not in what happens but what it tells us about who we are. Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.

Neil Gaiman

I'm not a politician; I'm an artist. So I always feel the need to give the unfiltered truth, (or) what I think is the truth, at least.

Janelle Monae

You can't be both a writer and a politician, at least not a good writer. A writer must always tell the truth as he sees it. And the politician must never give the game away.

Gore Vidal

It's not something that defines me. I'm not a half-Indian politician or a doctor politician or a gay politician for that matter... it is part of my character, I suppose.