Tamsin Greig Quotes

When you are responsible for telling the truth, you must take the time to find out what the truth is…. To find out the truth takes weeks. It takes only 5 minutes for a wrong message to travel around the entire globe.

Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.

When you take somebody's quote out of context, which happens all the time, nobody's ever going to go and do the research on their own and figure out that you got it wrong.

It's not cool to have your name in print when it's not the truth.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.

Stop lying about my record.

Yes, Vajpayee and Advani are very clever speakers, but that does not mean everything they say is true.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

Every reporter inhales skepticism. You interview people, and they lie. You face public figures, diligently making notes or taping what is said, and they perform their interviews to fit a calculated script. The truth, alas, is always elusive.

When there are falsehoods and ludicrous statements made at briefings, we've got to call that out.

I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk.

The biggest problem I have in journalism is being quoted or misquoted and then being asked to defend something I haven't said.

I used to have trust with reporters. Give them scoops. Those were the old days. It's very strange, when you give a story and it doesn't come out the right way.

The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.

I will not be misquoted!

I know every politician spins the truth a little.

If it comes to be believed that we are simply a propaganda organ of some kind, as a lot of people believe about some of our competitors, that would be a problem.

Be it true or false, so it be news.

The news and truth are not the same thing.

In politics there is a lot of spin—a lot of BS. My job is to cut through the BS.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

Diplomats lie to journalists, then believe the headlines.

… he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

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.