Quotes About Truth

When politicians deny anything fiercely, there is a good chance that it will happen.

Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.

If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.

I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.

The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.

Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.

You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.

Sound doctrine is sound politics.

If there is a smoke, there is a fire, the saying goes, That is quite true, but one should find what the fire is, and who lit it.

in politics as in life, what is known is not necessarily what is believed, what is shown is not necessarily what is seen, and what is said is not necessarily what is heard.

No longer can we rely on those same people in the media and politics who will say anything to keep a rigged system in place. Instead, we must choose to believe in America.

There's nothing more oily and cynical in politics than telling the truth.

The atmosphere in which social legislation is considered is not a friend of truth.

Justice is the one thing you should always find.

They're called 'facts', and my role is to amplify those, not cheerlead. And I don't care at all what you think of my motives.

There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.

There are two things that you have to lie to get through. One is politics, and the other is marriage.

I was not wrong. I was just misinformed.

American journalism's crazy old aunt in the attic.

I wouldn't write about sh*t I don't know. You won't hear me write about politics in Africa and stuff, because I don't know enough about it. And I would never rap about something I can't back up.

You roll back the stones, and you find slithering things. That is the world of Richard Nixon.