Atheists are the most honest of the human race. These people are unable to live a double life; they are unable to lie to themselves. Of course it's an evolutionary handicap, and if that handicap was widespread, our species would run the risk of extinction
Leadership by deception isn't leadership. It's fraud.
When you're dealing with frauds and liars, listen more to what they don't say than what they do.
Can anyone maintain power without lying? It looks to me like living without breathing. Morality apart, I think some evils are part and parcel of nature and we cannot do without them. Sometimes evil is even necessary to run this evil nature.
A wife who discomforts you with truth is better than a mistress who massages you with lies.