Ronald Reagan Quotes

Unfortunately, one picture is worth a thousand facts.

Unless there are pictures, I don't admit to anything.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction.

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Ignoring facts does not make them go away.

Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.

I worked every day there, so I knew all the details. But I needed only some proof. So the proof was photos.

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

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

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.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not.

The funny response to 'One Mississippi' continues to be that people don't know what is true and what's fiction.

I thought, 'Anyone can make up a lie, but making the truth funny is really hard.' But I actually had more problems with people believing me when I told the truth on stage.

Things seen are mightier than things heard.

Well, I guess what's caught on film is caught on film, and it would be hard for me to stand here and say that it wasn't, you know me.

You told a lie, an odious damned lie; Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie.

When people say “clean as a whistle”, they forget that a whistle is full of spit.

April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.

I'll pick "I'm kidding" anytime over "I'm lying."

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.