Pamela Meyer Quotes

I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty.

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.

Ronald Reagan is not a typical politician because he doesn't know how to lie, cheat, and steal. He's always had an agent for that.

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.

I chose to compromise my principles. I broke my promise to always tell the truth.

If a ruler of men wants to put an end to vice, he must examine the correspondence between form and name and look to see how what is said differs from what is done.

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

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

There's good and bad everywhere in any aspect in life. The only people who we can't really trust are politicians. Because those guys lie to everybody and constantly.

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.

I've tried to do away with lying in my life in the last few years, but it's hard.

The notion of our leaders as patrician ascetics of unassailable virtue is risible.

In my latter years I've decided that there's too much to keep track of when you go into the lying game. That becomes stressful and it's not for me anymore.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

An untruth must be spoken, where need requires. For whether men lie, or say true, it is with one and the same object. Men lie, because they think to gain by deceiving others; and speak the truth, because they expect to get something by their true speaking, and to be trusted afterwards in more important matters. Thus, though their conduct is so opposite, the end of both is alike. If there were no gain to be got, your true-speaking man would tell untruths as much as your liar, and your liar would tell the truth as much as your true-speaking man.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

I remember, as a kid, nothing struck me funnier than seeing Richard Nixon look into the camera and sincerely tell everyone he didn't know where the 18 minutes had gone from his tapes. But there was all this sweat on his upper lip. We knew he was lying. He knew we knew he was lying. But he was determined to tell the lie.

We're all liars when it serves our purpose.

We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.

You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.

There is hardly any man so strict as not to vary a little from truth when he is to make an excuse.

The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.