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Politics is ''built'' on lying. As ''[[Adolf Hitler]]'' is quoted as saying,<ref>he actually lifted it from an old army manual</ref> "great masses of people fall to [[Big Lie|a great lie]] much easier than to a small one". Really, it's hard to find politicians who don't use blatant lies, as evidenced by all of the major scandals and hypocrisy going on . There is an expectation that politicians that don't represent big parties don't lie, but it's as wrong as anything else; take a look at [[British Political System|British politics]], where Deputy Prime Minister [[Nick Clegg]] is so vilified for breaking a promise, you'd think he'd actually [[The Invention of Lying|invented lying]].
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== Australia ==
* "There will never, ever be a GST".{{context}}
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== Venezuela ==
* The infamous "Hugo Chávez arrived on his own foot at the Caracas Military Hospital" government statement merely days before his death in early March 2013, when he has been so sick he didn't attend his own inauguration ceremony in January and the presidential elections that preceded said inauguration was advanced to October 2012 instead of the traditional December because his illness was progressing too fast for Chavez to have a traditional re-election campaign.
== USA ==
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