Christopher Shays Quotes

And, believe me; they will do everything to cover this up.

Whenever the government says, 'It's time to move on,' that means there's something they don't want you to know about.

Everyone loves a conspiracy.

I know there is much mystery, much question to what happened, and I must also say, many lies.

I think we're lied to about a number of things.

What's public is propaganda, what's secret is serious.

Scandals are only increased by hushing them up.

The wronger a conspiracy is, the better it is.

Truth is a very powerful political weapon against those who are trying to conceal it.

In my experience in Washington, when people refuse to come clean, it is usually because they are hiding dirty laundry.

I believe conspiracy theories are part of a larger conspiracy to distract us from the real conspiracy. String theory.

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.

Any politician or campaigner trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the public won't get very far.

I keep reading between the lies.

You have these catch-phrases that you associate with 'The X-Files': 'Trust No One,' 'Deny Everything.' 'Believe the Lie' was one of them.

I realized that we were all sort of conspiring, well, not conspiring against each other, but all this cloak and dagger stuff and I was like; what is this?

It isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up.

Anything that's secret, clandestine, loaded with such a supercargo of speculation, misinformation, disinformation and, for that matter, accurate revelations, creates an appetite.

Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.

One to mislead the public, another to mislead the Cabinet, and the third to mislead itself.

Efforts to conceal the truth will not and do not negate the facts.

There are various ways of keeping truth out of sight.

The administration shaded the truth … I was part of the propaganda campaign.

Our Pentagon has a reputation for not telling the truth.

We used to think that secrecy was perhaps the greatest enemy of democracy, and as long as there was no suppression or censorship, people could be trusted to make the informed decisions that would preserve our free society, but we have learned in recent years that the techniques of misinformation and misdirection have become so refined that, even in an open society, a cleverly directed flood of misinformation can overwhelm the truth, even though the truth is out there, uncensored, quietly available to anyone who can find it.