Oliver Stone Quotes

There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.

The permanent campaign is inherently deceptive.

Listen, we’re making good progress in Iraq. Sometimes its hard to tell it when you listen to the filter.

The age of spin should be over.

We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers.

People don't know much about what's going on on the ground in Iraq: what you see in the media is heavily censored.

There was promulgation of false propaganda by the administration about the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. There was promulgation of false propaganda about Iraq as a base for Al Qaeda.

I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda and the manipulation of the truth and the revision of history.

The media is uncritical, and their so-called the concept of objectivity translates into keeping everything within the Beltway. However, Iraq was quite different. Here, there were flat-out lies, and they sort of knew it. They were desperately trying to make connections between Saddam Hussein and 9/11.

If deliberate distortion of reality by corporate media could be effectively prosecuted in the United States, the entire industry would be behind bars.

People are always using the past for political purposes…. If they do, they should at least do their homework. l

Lying is particularly prevalent in democratic states, where leaders need the support of the citizenry in order to execute their policies.

Truth is not the first casualty of war alone: it is the first casualty of populism.

Latin American leaders have been demonized by a combination of their own local media—which is controlled by private, rich families who don’t want to see change in their countries—and also the U. S. media which is surprising considering the distance from the facts.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action … Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

Precisely because our political speeches are meant to be reported, they are not worth reporting. Precisely because they are carefully designed to be read, nobody reads them.

Increasingly, campaigns treat the fact-checkers not as arbitrators who must be heeded, but as participants in the ever-roiling political tussle.

I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could — with 100 per cent certainty — know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.

We live in an age where people can not only choose their own sources, but they can choose their own facts.

I think censorship in the name of fighting fake news is a dangerous thing for Pakistan.

I think the media is a fear-mongering operation. They love to rile their viewership up or to scare them.

Not a single story on 'BBC World News' is any different from the British foreign policy.

The right-wing wants to destroy all the media and replace it with their propaganda.

Mainstream media journalists, especially in the United States and West Europe, prefer to ignore those problems in their own countries which they usually criticize in other countries, including in Russia.