[On Richard M. Nixon:] Americans began with a president who couldn't tell a lie and now they have one who can't tell the truth.
but even the facts do not always tell the truth
I don't want to lie. I can't tell the truth. So it's over.
I say, when you tell the truth, you never offend nobody, particularly if you do it with dignity.
The person who imagined that he could not be the victim of propaganda because he could distinguish truth from falsehood, is extremely susceptible to propaganda, because when propaganda does tell the truth, he is then convinced that it is no longer propaganda: moreover, his self-confidence makes him all the more vulnerable to attacks of which he is unaware.
As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me.
Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth.
Someone once noted that a 'gaffe' in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.
Please explain to me why John Kerry sounds more dickish telling the truth than Bush sounds when he's lying. How is that possible?
It is my experience that most claims of national security are part of a campaign to avoid telling the truth.