Mike Gallagher Quotes

The public are not fools.

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

This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more sophisticated at knowing when the truth is being obscured - an irony that seems to elude most of today's elected officials.

I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.

Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of.

When words I uttered, believing them to be true, were exposed as false, I was constrained by my duties and loyalty to the President and unable to comment. But I promised reporters and the public that I would someday tell the whole story of what I knew.

Any politician or campaigner trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the public won't get very far.

The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.

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

The thing that I've learned, not just from writing comics but also from writing television programs like 'Law & Order,' is that you can fool some of the people some of the time - but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

Someone once told me to believe 5 percent of what everybody tells you.

For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.

The overwhelming majority of people in this country know how to sift the wheat from the chaff in what they hear and what they read. They know that the process of the constructive rebuilding of America cannot be done in a day or a year, but that it is being done in spite of the few who seek to confuse them and to profit by their confusion.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

When a politician tells you something in confidence, always ask yourself: ‘Why is this lying bastard lying to me?’

People are starved for the truth, and when something comes along that even looks like the truth, people will latch onto it because everything's so false.

I think you can fool people once but you can't fool the people all the time.

No person can fool all the people all the time.

I'm not a fan of people making up lies, and I do feel I owe it to people to know what the truth is.

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

The stuff we have been told off record tends to be the stuff that is true and the stuff we are told on record on camera tends to be the stuff that is not so true.

You can't fool children.

You can't believe everything you hear on the Internet.

I am not someone who can be fooled by praise at all. In fact, I quickly sniff out people who are being fake with me. It doesn't go unnoticed with me.

Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels all over the place. You can hide Truth under a doormat, but eventually the mat will rise very high with Time -- forcing it to reveal all the truths it conceals.