Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Quotes

The American press is all about lies! All they tell is lies, lies and more lies!

People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People’s heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool.

Though the Americans can be fooled, as they have been, and they can be propagandized, as they have been... But, as Lincoln said, "You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time. But you can't fool all of the people all of the time." And so hope lies in the fact that little by little, even if the American people can be fooled, even if they continue to be fooled in the 2004 presidential election, they will gradually learn, as they have learned - for instance, in the Vietnam War and turned against the Vietnam War.

They are lying every day. They are lying always, and mainly they are lying to their public opinion

The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might.

Folks will say anything, and next time round they'll believe it.

Don't Let them fool you or even try to school you

You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best.

There's so many lies being told throughout the media and people just run with the lies. They're numb to it. Too many followers, not enough leaders.

When people see political ads, they think someone's lying to them.

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

You can never trust what you read.

In politics, not all lies are all lies. And not all truths are complete.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.

Bush is good at stating the obviously untrue.

There can hardly be a more grave act imaginable than to dupe a democracy into going to war, but this is what Bush has done.

Whoever attacks the popular falsehoods of his time will find that a lie defends itself by telling other lies. Nothing is so prolific, nothing can so multiply itself, nothing can lay and hatch as many eggs, as a good, healthy, lie.

In this crazy political business, at least in our times, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

The primitive simplicity of their [the masses'] minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies but would be ashamed to tell big ones.