Shiva Ayyadurai Quotes

It's not cool to have your name in print when it's not the truth.

Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?

It's hard to know now who, if anyone, in the media has any credibility.

False news hurts everyone. It hurts our community; it hurts us as individuals.

The thing I hate about writers is they want to state their case and they use false information.

When there are falsehoods and ludicrous statements made at briefings, we've got to call that out.

You can't believe everything you hear on the Internet.

It has been said that a rolling stone gathers no moss. I would add that sometimes a rolling stone also gathers no verifiable facts or even the tiniest morsels of journalistic integrity.

I have no problem with being vetted. What I do have a problem with is being lied about and then putting that as truth.

At no time did I intend to, or do I believe that I did put forward false information to the American people.

You shouldn't presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate.

Everywhere you go you hear things that are untrue. You've just got to learn that if I don't say it, physically out of my mouth, on camera, it's not true.

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

What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.

I have one major problem with the internet: It's full of liars. There doesn't seem to be any way to answer to people lying about you.

I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies.

I don't think I'm an intentional liar, but I'm a little bit of an exaggerator sometimes. If I'm exaggerating, and the journalist exaggerates on top of that, then we end up in funny territory.

Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.

You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.

Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.

Some people believe everything they see on TV. People, it's called tel-lie-vision!

People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.

Frankly, no newspaper is set up to monitor for cheats and fabricators.

When the crisis at the core of our nation’s political decline is a direct attack on the truth, the institution that should take the lead in confronting and correcting that danger is the press.

When you are responsible for telling the truth, you must take the time to find out what the truth is…. To find out the truth takes weeks. It takes only 5 minutes for a wrong message to travel around the entire globe.