Mort Sahl Quotes

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

As a cameraman, I am interested in images and truth. Today, people are conditioned to accept lies if they are commercial lies. What we don't see anymore is ethics.

I think 20th century media were about tricking people - and the beauty of the Internet is you can't lie anymore.

I was raised to be charming, not sincere.

It's real easy to manufacture what you think the people want to hear. But that's not very honest.

You don't need a digital David Petraeus or a President Bush avatar to distract you from the truth. You don't need to wait decades to have disinformation beamed into your head. You just need a constant stream of misleading information, half truths, and fictions to be promoted, pushed, and peddled until they are accepted as fact.

The first casualty when war comes is truth.

Most style is not honest enough.

You want me to tell me the truth or do you want me to stroke you?

There are people who are very highly paid to cover the truth and who will protect their clients.

No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.

It seems, by today's standards, that it's better to seek approval than to tell the truth. It's better to utter sweet nothings than to boldly say something of substance.

Always be sincere, even when you don't mean it.

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.

It’s better to be quotable than to be honest.

The expressions of newspapers, like those of orators, could not be accepted without allowance, for they aimed at producing some desired effect, and said either more or less than the truth.

I saw him turn his charm on and off, like water from the tap at the kitchen sink. He said nothing of substance. He seemed to me essentially an actor.

Politics won't allow for the truth.

Donald Trump really understood how to float a story, how to float a rumor, how to manipulate the truth.

Some people say things they think you want to hear, and some people say the things they are actually thinking.

Truth is seldom appreciated and never understood, whereas a flattering lie is always appreciated and instantly understood.

..bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation-to make a point-than to further the cause of truth." Dupin in "The Mystery of Marie Roget

I am sincere, ma petite, even when I lie.

There's nothing more oily and cynical in politics than telling the truth.

A big lie is more plausible than truth.