Ben Bradlee Quotes

Washington could not tell a lie; Nixon could not tell the truth; Reagan cannot tell the difference.

Liars sometimes tell the truth; they don’t tell lies all the time.

There is no truth in him, and men who cannot tell the truth are not to be trusted either in public or private life.

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

… 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.

One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

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

Oaths are crutches, upon which lies go.

Always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.

Have you weaned yourself of your off-putting proclivity for not telling the truth/

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

I'm not a fan of people making up lies, and I do feel I owe it to people to know what the truth is.

Study after study shows that people are much less likely to lie to a person they consider to be honest.

I don't tell lies. I don't need to.

George Washington was the president who could never tell a lie, and Richard Nixon was the president who could never tell the truth. Donald Trump is truly the president who can't tell the difference.

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

Through language, we can tell the truth and hear the truth spoken, just as we can be deceived. Sometimes it's a painful realization: we can be lied to. As I write, I think of myself as putting my eye under oath, so that what I write is the truth about my characters.

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

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

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

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.

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