Dan Quayle Quotes

When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.

Bad excuses are worse than none.

You are committed to what you confess.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.

… 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.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

I don't mind scrutiny. What I don't like is lies.

Nobody likes to admit that they made a mistake, but if you do, you have to stand up and take responsibility and you have to say that you were wrong.

… he knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.

A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found.

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

If there is one thing that our role models in this election have taught us, it's that omitting important information is completely different from lying.

Donald Trump treats the truth like a second home. He doesn't always live there.

That's one of the main things I've learned: honesty is paramount. The biggest thing I try and instil in my daughter. My deepest regrets have been to do with times that I've been dishonest. There's nothing worse than getting caught out in a lie. It's excruciatingly embarrassing.

When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, 'Instead of lying, write it down, because if you write it down, it's not a lie anymore; it's fiction.'

I think lying is a bad idea. Sooner or later, someone's going to catch you.

Liar' is the best work I've done.

I'm the worst liar - I can't lie for my life. And I don't lie at all, because I'm the worst liar - but as a kid, I thought I was a great liar, so I would lie all the time, but everybody knew I was lying.

All I can say is anybody who's spent most of his life living a lie is not somebody I admire.

I can deal with imperfection, but I can't deal with people who lie to themselves and lie to the world to make the world feel better.

Lying is the rule, not the exception.

I lied all my life.

I don't use the word 'lying' easily.