J. William Fulbright Quotes

I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.

So many of the things we're told by the government simply aren't true.

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

I want America to know that you can't believe everything you hear, and nowadays, you can't believe everything you see.

You can never trust what you read.

Some people believe everything they see on TV. People, it's called tel-lie-vision!

There is a lot of spinning and a lot of lying in our times—in politics, in government, in sports and everywhere. It’s gotten to the point where … you no longer believe the first version of anything. It wasn’t always that way. I guess it started for me with Vietnam, when the establishment felt it had to lie to justify a policy that as it turned out was never going to work.

We have Internet now and people are not stupid. But it seems that some people are trying to push the same agenda of the Cold War of conspiracy theories and amazing achievements that are very easily traced and validated.

... the important thing is to, first of all, question everything you read or hear or see or are told. Question it, and try to see the world for what it actually is, as opposed to what someone or some company or some organization or some government is trying to represent it as, or present it as, however they've mislabeled it or dressed it up or told you.

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

Never trust anything you read in a travel article.

We must combat misinformation that is being spread.

When I was knowingly misled but only learned that much later, that's really when I started to become disillusioned at the White House.

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

Don't believe everything you see on VH1.

People are entitled to believe the government is constantly lying to them, but it isn't.

We live in such a gullible world. Anything that's written, anything that's posted, anything picture that is interpreted one way is taken as truth.

It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.

Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.

Our credibility had gotten so bad we couldn't even believe our own leaks.

People don't trust anything anymore. We don't trust our government. We don't trust our automobile makers. We don't trust our pharmaceutical houses. We don't trust our doctors or our hospitals or our cops. We don't trust Congress. And a lot of Americans don't trust the president of the U.S. So the media are simply regarded as another piece of the American establishment. People think we're trying to get away with something, trying to pull the wool over their eyes, trying to push an agenda..

People where we come from hear so many lies that the truth stands out like a sore thumb.

The Internet is pushing us - in good ways and in bad - to realize that the official version of events shouldn't always be trusted or accepted without question.

We live in a world with fake news being put out there. You don't really know what to trust, and it's a real danger to society.

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