"Not all politicians lie, " says Oakley, although he concedes that many now have spin doctors to do their dirty work for them.
But then all politicians lie at one time or another.
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Politicians lie awake at night worrying about survival, not hypocrisy.
After Ndaweni Mahlangu, the province's premier, said on June 22nd that it was acceptable for politicians to lie, the long-nosed puppet decided that this was the sort of broad-mindedness he looked for in an employer.
Or does the problem lie with the politicians who redistribute the wealth and the citizens who have failed to supervise their politicians?
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But it differs from that reform in one important regard: ultimately this decision does not lie with the politicians, not even with the control freaks of Tony Blair's Downing Street.
Meanwhile, the biggest dangers lie in an area that politicians barely mention: the labour market.
The big lie, embraced by all politicians, most parents and even the Sopranos mobsters on HBO, is that the schools you attend make a lot of difference in your life.
At the same time, a number of Democratic politicians have felt free to either freely lie about or obscure their record of support for the War or their beliefs about WMD or about the necessity of removing Saddam Hussein.
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Huhne's name will now be added to that list of John Profumo, Jonathan Aitken and Jeffrey Archer, politicians all brought down by their ability to lie to Parliament or the courts.
But on present evidence the real blame in that event is more likely to lie either with trade-bashing politicians or with the Federal Reserve, which failed to raise interest rates last year to deflate the stockmarket bubble.
That is especially true insofar as doing so would give lie to the universal mantra of politicians on both sides of the aisle to promoting American competitiveness and the need to expand the number of skilled jobs here at home.
Politicians have voted in favour of a review into where political responsibility for the judicial system should lie.
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