Pat Buchanan Quotes

I think the President [George W. Bush] would mislead the American people.

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises.

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.

He [William Clinton] has terrible trouble with the truth. I don’t think Presidents should have trouble with the truth.

This is what's so hard about our current politics: things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth.

One of the roles of the press is to make sure that the president, in the voice of the people, is telling the truth.

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

People who are deceptive themselves have a really good ear for deception. They know when somebody's telling the truth or not, and so one of the ways around that is to always be telling the truth - or some version of it.

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

The French are simply incapable of telling the truth.

I committed pretty much the worst thing you can do, which is defraud the readers.

Many good journalists have attempted to confront Trump about his many lies and failures, and have failed.

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

I have never intentionally provided false and misleading information to the NCAA.

In my brief, home affairs, we have witnessed ministers issue countless dodgy dossiers, fiddle figures and fudge facts.

At no time did I suggest that violence is justice, and I can't believe I even have to explain that. But the alternative is letting someone like Kayleigh McEnany misquote and manipulate what you say. McEnany, who repeatedly lies to the American people.

There are things that go public, and everything that comes out is not the truth.

You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don't, for any reason, ever tell the truth.

a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)

The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.

Someone who lies and someone who tells the truth are playing on opposite sides, so to speak, in the same game. Each responds to the facts as he understands them, although the response of the one is guided by the authority of the truth, while the response of the other defies that authority and refuses to meet its demands. The bullshitter ignores these demands altogether. He does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

George Washington was the president who could never tell a lie, and Richard Nixon was the president who could never tell the truth. Donald Trump is truly the president who can't tell the difference.

Any statement beginning with the words 'In truth' is almost always a lie.

A 'penchant for telling the truth' can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor's wife.