Sheldon Whitehouse Quotes

Corporations have at different times been so far unable to distinguish freedom of speech from freedom of lying that their freedom has to be curbed.

American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

When a company creates a product that directly or indirectly adversely impacts the health of people, that product must be regulated. The process by which it's created must be regulated. No company has the right to injure people. No company.

TEPCO is guilty of institutionalized lying…. TEPCO knew on March 12 that fuel had melted down, but they continued to lie for almost 2 months. They haven’t made an accounting of the past. We first have to determine why they lied.

Consumers recognize, and don't like, corporate lying.

Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.

It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.

It takes one minute to tell a lie, and an hour to refute it.

The destructive power of a lie is stronger than the truth.

I do believe that is a template that I stick very strongly to to tell the truth in an increasing swelter of lies and misinformation and disinformation.

Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side.

My view is that when lies become mixed up with the truth, it's a very dangerous world.

Plain lies are dangerous.

The best lies about me are the ones I told.

It's been very interesting. We've seen a lot of interesting testimony. We've seen a lot of interesting people, a lot of allegations, a lot of lies, a lot of misinformation and some truth.

Elvis is English, and climbs the hills. Can't tell the bullshit from the lies.

Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living.

Do you want to live in a world where a man lies about calories?

We assume that all statements must be mild inversions of the truth, because it's too weird to imagine people who aren't casually lying, pretty much all the time.

In Sri Lanka a well-told lie is worth a thousand facts.

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth.