{"quotes":[{"text":"I don’t know how a reporter would ever understand a politician. Your job is supposed to be about finding the truth and enlightening people. Right? A politician’s job is about hiding the truth and fooling people. Right? You want us to be better informed so we get smarter. They think we’re dumb and it’s to their advantage to keep us that way.","author":"Dan Groat","tags":["dumb","dumbness","enlightenment","journalism","lie","lies","lies-politics","news","politician","reporter","reporters","smart","smarter","truth","well-informed"],"id":37777,"author_id":"Dan+Groat"},{"text":"Why did McNamara have such good figures? Why did McNamara have such good staff work and Ball such poor staff work? The next day Ball would angrily dispatch his staff to come up with the figures, to find out how McNamara had gotten them, and the staff would burrow away and occasionally find that one of the reasons that Ball did not have comparable figures was that they did not always exist. McNamara had invented them, he dissembled even within the bureaucracy, though, of course, always for a good cause. It was part of his sense of service. He believed in what he did, and thus the morality of it was assured, and everything else fell into place. It was all right to lie and dissemble for the right causes. It was part of service, loyalty to the President, not to the nation, not to colleagues, it was a very special bureaucratic-corporate definition of integrity; you could do almost anything you wanted as long as it served your superior.","author":"David Halberstam","tags":["integrity","lies-politics","loyalty","morality","power"],"id":71996,"author_id":"David+Halberstam"},{"text":"Once you are in power, never forget those who put you there. Deal with those who think they can do better than you and those who think you are god's representative on earth. Deal with each other according to his actions.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["absolute-power","ambition","ambition-and-attitude","ambition-life-ambitions","ambition","ambition","ambitions","bangambiki","competing","competing-with-others","competition-and-attitude","competition-is-not-real-love","competition","competition-with-others","competitions","dictatorship","lies-politics","love-of-power","lust-for-power","macchiavelli","machiavellian","maintaining-power","misuse-of-power","political","political-ambition","political-ambition","political-correctness","political-philosophy","politicians","politics","power","power-addiction","power-politics","retribution","retribution","reward","reward","rewards","survival-instinct","survival-is-the-name-of-the-game","survival-of-the-fittest","survival","survival-story","survivalism","survivalist","survive","surviving-life","survivor","the-great-pearl-of-wisdom"],"id":90639,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"The Golden Mean is for the weakling, it was not meant for the likes of Alexander the Great, Cyrus, Pharaohs, or Hitlers of the world.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["alexander-the-great","ambition","ambition-and-attitude","ambition-life-ambitions","ambition","ambition","ambitions","bangambiki","cyrus","dictatorship","giants-of-history","golden-mean","golden-rule","hitler","lies-politics","love-of-power","lust-for-power","macchiavelli","machiavellian","misuse-of-power","pharaoh","political","political-ambition","political-ambition","political-correctness","political-philosophy","politicians","politics","power","power-addiction","survival-instinct","survival-is-the-name-of-the-game","survival-of-the-fittest","survival","survival-story","survivalism","survivalist","survive","surviving-life","survivor","the-great-pearl-of-wisdom"],"id":90812,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"We fight exploitation of man by man in words but live it in daily life.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["bangambiki","exploitation","lies-politics","political","political-correctness","political-philosophy","politicians","politics","the-great-pearl-of-wisdom"],"id":101170,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"Politicians are not afraid of their mistakes, they are afraid their mistakes will not succeed.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["lies-politics","mistakes","mistakes","political","political-correctness","political-philosophy","politicians","politics"],"id":101476,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"It's unfortunate to be bitten by political ambition. The deadly disease causes a man to want to access power by all means either by sacrificing others to its altar or by sacrificing himself when he fails.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["absolute-power","altar-of-power","ambition","ambition-and-attitude","ambition-life-ambitions","ambition","ambition","ambitions","bangambiki","dictatorship","lies-politics","love-of-power","loyalty","loyalty-and-disloyalty","loyalty-and-disloyalty","loyalty","lust-for-power","macchiavelli","machiavellian","maintaining-power","misuse-of-power","political","political-ambition","political-ambition","political-correctness","political-philosophy","politicians","politics","power","power-addiction","power-politics","sacrifice","sacrifice-for-gain","sacrifice-for-others","sacrifice-in-life","sacrifice","sacrificed","sacrifices","sacrificing","survival-instinct","survival-is-the-name-of-the-game","survival-of-the-fittest","survival","survival-story","survivalism","survivalist","survive","surviving-life","survivor","the-great-pearl-of-wisdom"],"id":138288,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"In theory man is put at the center of everything but in practice he is barely allowed to sit on the sidelines.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["bangambiki","cynicism","lies-politics","political","political-correctness","political-philosophy","politicians","politics","the-great-pearl-of-wisdom"],"id":153369,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"We contradict all for which we stand for we all stand for the lie the whole lie and nothing but the lie so help save our lying asses.","author":"Brian Spellman","tags":["lies-lying-liars","lies-politics","lying","politicians"],"id":161873,"author_id":"Brian+Spellman"},{"text":"When you're dealing with frauds and liars, listen more to what they don't say than what they do.","author":"DaShanne Stokes","tags":["deceit","deceit","deception","deception","donald-trump","donald-trump-president","donald-trump","fraud","frauds","fraudulence","government","government-corruption","lie","lies","lies-politics","lies-we-tell-ourselves","listening","lying","lying","lying-to-ourselves","politics","politics-of-the-united-states","politics","president-donald-trump","president-donald-trump","president-trump","president-trump","trump","trump-resistance-movement","trumpism"],"id":211922,"author_id":"DaShanne+Stokes"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":39,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}