Eleanor Clift Quotes

Sometimes hyperbole and lying are not easily distinguishable [in politics].

Half the lies our opponents tell about us are not true.

People tend to say a lot of things that are not true.

The fake news and the lying doesn't surprise me anymore. The one thing we know he is consistent about, Trump, is lying.

Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

Whoever attacks the popular falsehoods of his time will find that a lie defends itself by telling other lies. Nothing is so prolific, nothing can so multiply itself, nothing can lay and hatch as many eggs, as a good, healthy, lie.

Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially insofar as it might bring out something favorable to the opponent.... The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

Your case for war was a pack of lies.

There is a lot of spinning and a lot of lying in our times—in politics, in government, in sports and everywhere. It’s gotten to the point where … you no longer believe the first version of anything. It wasn’t always that way. I guess it started for me with Vietnam, when the establishment felt it had to lie to justify a policy that as it turned out was never going to work.

People where we come from hear so many lies that the truth stands out like a sore thumb.

Trump is a master obfuscator. Like an octopus escaping a predator, he releases a cloud of ink when called to the carpet on one of his many lies. His strategy? Obfuscate, then reference others. 'Millions agree,' 'everyone knows,' 'many have done it.'

Sarah Huckabee Sanders lies on a regular basis.

Tell the lie over and over and over. It's an art that Trump understands well. There's no better evidence than his absolutely false claim that he opposed the Iraq War in 2002.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.

It's not a 24-hour news cycle, it's a 60-second news cycle now, it's instantaneous. It has never been easier to get away with telling lies. It has never been easier to get away with the glib one liner.

I think we're lied to about a number of things.

All these things they've been saying are a pack of lies.

I keep reading between the lies.

The Internet is a strange, strange place that is full of lies. I would say mostly lies.

When people see political ads, they think someone's lying to them.

I know every politician spins the truth a little.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.