Ari Fleischer Quotes

… he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off.

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

I will not be misquoted!

I have always been honest about my recollection of events.

Everything I say is true.

Fact-checking doesn't exist primarily because some of us are liars and cheats. It exists because writers will be writers, much as they may mean to be historians.

Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

I don't do much lying in real life because I don't get away with it.

Time trieth truth.

I can't fudge what I write. But I can certainly fudge what I say.

I don't give false claims any due.

If something is presented as a fact, it has to be correct.

If I utter one lie, I'll have to remember it the next time someone asks me about it. It's far simpler to state the truth.

I state facts all the time.

No one on the planet Earth is going to be able to look at me on television and say that I'm a liar. It will not happen.

Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.

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

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

People know accuracy when they read it; they can feel it.

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.