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I'm more of an exaggerator than a liar.

Now that he has disavowed as outright lies many of the stories he told himself, it's hard to know what to make of those who still insist that David Brock had it right the first time.

I try to tell one lie in every interview. It keeps people I know amused when they read the article.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

Apparently, I am a bit of an exaggerator when I tell stories. But I don't call them lies; I say they are better, funnier truths.

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

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

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

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

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?

The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.

You who speak languages, you are such liars.

There's a tendency for designers to embellish the size of their business. I never lie.

You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

Working as a journalist, I was always tempted to lie. I felt I could do dialogue better than the person I was interviewing. I felt I could lie better than Nixon and be more concise than some random person I was covering.

If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.

When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.

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.

Stop lying about my record.

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

The news and truth are not the same thing.

You could put it that way if you wanted to cause people concern. On the other hand, you could report it as I said it.

Editorialists who tell downright lies in order to advance their own agendas do more to discredit the press than all the censors in the world.

The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.