Joseph C. Wilson Quotes

Politicians learn to turn the truth into something that they want the truth to be.

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

The permanent campaign is inherently deceptive.

When campaigns use one-word labels, typically it's meant to distract and destroy.

It's not just politicians. Any spokesman for a vested interest is well schooled in how to say what it is they wish to say, which may bear no relation at all to what you've asked them.

In politics there is a lot of spin—a lot of BS. My job is to cut through the BS.

Officials in every White House crowbar the facts to make their cases.

Trump is a master obfuscator. Like an octopus escaping a predator, he releases a cloud of ink when called to the carpet on one of his many lies. His strategy? Obfuscate, then reference others. 'Millions agree,' 'everyone knows,' 'many have done it.'

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

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

The right can distort anything it wants.

I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that.

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

The papers are only going to show what they want the readers to see. It's all propaganda, to be honest.

Politicians are masters of the art of deception.

The expressions of newspapers, like those of orators, could not be accepted without allowance, for they aimed at producing some desired effect, and said either more or less than the truth.

In politics where immediate success is attained by saying what people can be made to believe, rather than what is demonstrably true, accent is generally placed on the desirable rather than on the possible.

The listeners can see through our manipulation of the news too clearly. It is all laid on too thickly.

The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.

When politics comes in the door, truth goes out the window.

The age of spin should be over.

We are in the middle of a big swamp of ignorance that is taught by a lot of nonsense, propaganda, absurdity, amalgams. I have a hard time listening to any speech. You feel like you want to stop the TV every two seconds to rephrase them, because it's lie after lie, turning stuff upside down, and you can't follow that. That's the trap.

A magic trick of any sort works because you tell yourself a story about what you see. And politicians use this all the time in their own way by throwing a load of statistics at you when things don't quite follow and then saying, 'So therefore blah,' and you believe that 'blah' thing because of the confusion that's come before.

You know, the media always tries to twist things and make things into what they're not.

Just because reporters say something over and over and over again doesn't start to make it true.