William Howard Taft Quotes

I never like to be lied to by a girlfriend or agent, and certainly not the president of the United States.

It matters to people that the president tell them the truth.

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

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

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

People forget that unauthorized does not mean untrue and authorized does not mean authentic.

I want America to know that you can't believe everything you hear, and nowadays, you can't believe everything you see.

The thing that I've learned, not just from writing comics but also from writing television programs like 'Law & Order,' is that you can fool some of the people some of the time - but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

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

Someone once told me to believe 5 percent of what everybody tells you.

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

If you understand everything, you must be misinformed.

The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of a nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are intentionally bad.

Our credibility had gotten so bad we couldn't even believe our own leaks.

You don’t tell the truth just some of the time… The American people deserve the truth all of the time.

The news and truth are not the same thing.

Media manipulation in the U.S. today is more efficient than it was in Nazi Germany, because here we have the pretense that we are getting all the information we want. That misconception prevents people from even looking for the truth.

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

People are not likely to lie on the Internet about the atomic number of Rubidium, but they will lie about history.

There is a lot of spinning and a lot of lying in our times—in politics, in government, in sports and everywhere. It’s gotten to the point where … you no longer believe the first version of anything. It wasn’t always that way. I guess it started for me with Vietnam, when the establishment felt it had to lie to justify a policy that as it turned out was never going to work.

People still believe what they read is necessarily the truth.

People are starved for the truth, and when something comes along that even looks like the truth, people will latch onto it because everything's so false.

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.

The stuff we have been told off record tends to be the stuff that is true and the stuff we are told on record on camera tends to be the stuff that is not so true.

As truth is Washington's worst enemy, everyone associated with the truth is Washington's enemy.