Keir Starmer Quotes

The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths.

After all we speak of people 'taking refuge' in vagueness -the more precise you are, in general the more likely you are to be wrong, whereas you stand a good chance of not being wrong if you make it vague enough.

Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate.

Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled 'wrong'.

I do believe that the truth gets out.

Sometimes it is necessary to make things clearer than the truth.

It is easy to be accurate if you have the freedom to be complicated, and it is very easy to be simple if you have the freedom to shade the truth. What's hard is to be simple and very accurate, and that takes work to figure out what are the simple truths that are going to sustain your case.

My goal was never to withhold information; my goal was to make sure everything was accurate, and frequently it wasn't.

Truth and clarity are complementary.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

On cannot be precise, and still be true.

OK, so truth hurts - but what else does truth do?

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.

People know accuracy when they read it; they can feel it.

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

I will not be misquoted!

You know I am done lying. Obscuring the truth is no longer something I have any interest in doing. I want it all to come out. The good, the bad, the ugly.

It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.

Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

I don't claim to be a journalist. I hold myself to higher standards of transparency and disclosure.