Jon Stewart Quotes

I can't establish the veracity of what people say because only they know whether they are telling the truth. I can't look into your mind, can I?

Politicians are better liars than writers.

In this play we're dealing with relative truths - who's lying, who's telling the truth. But underneath that, Ed and I have hit this deeper level of intimacy between old friends that comes out in the play.

I think people are distrustful of politicians and are looking for someone who is telling the truth with no hidden agenda.

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

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

I have a hard time keeping a story straight when I tell the truth because when you start lying you have to remember what you said, and I'm not very good at that.

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

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

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

Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

In Washington the politicians lie on the record and tell the truth off the record. In the Middle East, it’s the opposite. They lie off the record, and tell the truth on the record.

Twenty five years in Washington has taught me never to tell a lie to a reporter.

I doubt he knows himself when he’s not telling the truth.

The character and repute of President Kennedy constitute one of our greatest national resources. Nothing should be done to jeopardize this invaluable asset. When lies must be told, they should be told by subordinate officials.

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

Surely we don’t want the President to lie, we don’t want our senators to lie, we don’t want our congressmen to lie. But sometimes they do.

Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other married couples they sometimes live apart.

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interest of the country.

People who are deceptive themselves have a really good ear for deception. They know when somebody's telling the truth or not, and so one of the ways around that is to always be telling the truth - or some version of it.

After all of my years in politics, I've learned that sometimes things that are said are true, and other things that are said are less than true.