Pierre Salinger Quotes

He [William Clinton] has terrible trouble with the truth. I don’t think Presidents should have trouble with the truth.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

It's not just that there's no other spokesperson for the executive seat of power in a democratic republic anywhere in the world where you see that type of lying. It's that there's never been a spokesman for the executive seat in power who is such a prolific liar as Sarah Sanders.

I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.

I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.

Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of.

People are entitled to believe the government is constantly lying to them, but it isn't.

The CIA claims that secrecy is necessary to hide what it's doing from enemies of the United States ... the real reason for secrecy is to hide what the CIA is doing from the American people.

I think the President [George W. Bush] would mislead the American people.

By and large, our leaders don’t lie to us.

There’s no question that once a president lies, people are then quite jaded in how they look at that president. But that quickly wears off. Trust reasserts itself. And then people are vulnerable all over again.

Even the very best newspapers have never learned how to handle public figures who lie with a straight face.

We've all grown wary of being lied to online - let's face it, dudes are always exaggerating their heights - so trust is a hot commodity.

Whenever we tell the truth, nobody believes us. We lie, and people take it as etched-in-stone fact.

If a President of the United States ever lied to the American people, he should resign.

Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

Now that he has disavowed as outright lies many of the stories he told himself, it's hard to know what to make of those who still insist that David Brock had it right the first time.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

I don't like being lied to, so I only lie about the stupid things. White lies, basically.

A liar is always lavish of oaths.

The president has undermined trust. No longer will the members of Congress be entitled to accept his veracity. Caveat emptor has become the word. Every member of Congress is on his or her own to determine the truth.

Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people. But, he certainly is among the most accomplished at it.

The American public is sick and tired of being lied to.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.