If a man needs you to believe a lie,
He will often say, "trust me."

If a man needs you to believe the truth,
He will speak it.

Time well spent is good investment
Time wasted in good company
Is, thankfully, much the same.

Some puppeteers perform upon their own stage.
A theater made by and for themselves.
They enjoy an act of selfish design
Then bow to raucous applause
From hands pulled tight by string.

The most important quality for a politician is integrity.

The successful ones have none.

Idiocy is not inherent;
It is, altogether more terrifyingly, habitual.

When we are fed with lies
We lose our taste for truth.
We growl and moan at our starving kin,
As we march so hungry into the grinding teeth of war.

It's hard not to be full of ****
When your head is up your ***.

The mark of a true fool
Is not the lack of knowledge,
But the firm belief that he has
Nothing left to learn.

Hypocrisy is its own critique.