Don Winslow Quotes

To meet someone who wants to fight to just tell the truth about what's happening in government... this is a real life superhero right here.

The story of undocumented immigrants in this country is not just about undocumented immigrants. It's about the country as a whole, and it's about us being able to tell the truth about where we are with this issue because we haven't been telling the truth about where we are with this issue.

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

If I could go, I would tell the truth to the North American people. President Reagan personally ordered my visa to be denied.

WikiLeaks exposed the most dangerous lies of all, which are those that are told to us by elected governments.

I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.

This is an administration that has gotten 600 Americans killed by not telling the truth. I don’t see why anyone would believe any of the political ads.

Sometimes I feel like the government is more afraid of people telling the truth than they are of the protests and violence.

Someone once noted that a 'gaffe' in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.

People say, 'The government couldn't carry out the September 11th attack, it's too big, they'd get caught!' They DID get caught! They're just counting on you to be dumb and to go along with it.

All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man.

I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.

Seek the truth. Tell the truth. Live in truth.

If you are going to be a leader, you must have a record where people saw you are standing up against injustice at a risk. Then that builds up your stock of credibility so that, when you speak on another occasion about a different thing, people will pay attention.

Somebody ought to have the courage to tell the truth. These people are terrorists.

I have another name for what they're terming whistleblowers, and that's righteous heroes. From Bradley Manning to Snowden. They're people of conscience who are unwilling to turn a blind eye to the crimes of our government. And thank goodness for them.

This is what's so hard about our current politics: things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth.

The Press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of the government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people.

All the things I resent most about out-of-control government and the politicians who support it, grow it, or simply fail to deal with it, what angers me above all else is the knowledge that all of this waste and ruin is entirely preventable.

I can tell you that the job of trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is about as complicated and difficult as trying to hide it in the first place.

I'd always thought telling the truth to other people was hard, but maybe that was a snap compared to telling the truth to yourself. Sometimes we just refused to know what we knew.

It is, perhaps, a debatable question, whether a person who has always been notoriously in the habit of lying, has a right to tell the truth; it is, of course, the only device by which he can deceive people.

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

I don't know what it's going to take for people to really wake up and understand that they [the Bush administration] are liars and they are murderers.