A Quote by Taylor Caldwell

An honest politician is either a hypocrite - or he is doomed.

Taylor Caldwell

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Taylor Caldwell
American - Novelist
September 7, 1900 - August 30, 1985

An actor knows two important things - to be honest in what he is doing and to be in touch with the audience. That's not bad advice for a politician either.

Ronald Reagan

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

Adlai Stevenson I

You show me a politician with his heels ten feet in the air, and by Judas priest, Ill show you an honest politician.

Dalton Trumbo

The hypocrite recognizes the honest man as his deadly enemy.

Joseph Sobran

There is a long history of newspapers being doomed. They were doomed by radio. They were doomed by television. They were probably doomed by the telegraph way back when.

Bill Keller

I really embrace my hypocrisy. I embrace that because after I do that, I can move on; I can try and go away from that. You gotta understand what your problem is and know what it is, and then you can change it. You can't just be like, "I'm a hypocrite, and to not be a hypocrite, I'm just going to not do hypocritical things." You can't do that; you don't even understand what a hypocrite is.

Lupe Fiasco

Mmm....she's doomed! You're doomed!! They're all doomed! Notice I didn't specify what kind of doom, so no matter what happens, I predicted it. How very WISE of me.

Christopher Paolini

The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Everybody is a hypocrite. You can't live on this planet without being a hypocrite.

Paul Watson

My experience has proved that a man who is running for office, and is not willing to make his honest opinions known to the public, either has no honest opinions or is not honest about them.

William Randolph Hearst

I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place. Any God worth "believing in" would surely prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating hypocrite.