Donald Kennedy Quotes

The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.

My heart aches for America and its deceived people.

The thing I hate about writers is they want to state their case and they use false information.

The only real diplomacy ever performed by a diplomat is in deceiving their own people after their dumbness has got them into a war.

They're feeding the people a line of bull, and they are spinning and people are dying.

The people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived.

[George W.] Bush was led astray and we were led astray.

It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.

Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.

At no time did I intend to, or do I believe that I did put forward false information to the American people.

This isn't the old days where you can just say stuff and people will believe it.

Don't Let them fool you or even try to school you

All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they'll tell you will be wrong.

If you repeat something long enough people believe it's what happened.

With some people there is such a thing as the habit of betrayal.

It's a lot easier to convince uninformed people than it is to convince politicians.

There is a trouble called Twitter, the finest lies are here. Nowadays, social media is actually the headache of societies.

So many of the things we're told by the government simply aren't true.

People still cheat on their wives, that hasn't fallen out of fashion. We all speak of it badly, but it has not fallen out of fashion.

Many people believe everything others say, even though what they see with their own eyes, should be enough to tell them otherwise.

Our rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our government has done to other people, not to mention our own.

There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.

There's this phenomenon where people do like to announce movies that they think I'm doing that I'm not.

It is a shame when nonsense can substitute for fact with impunity.

A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters.