Pamela Meyer Quotes

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.

Bush is good at stating the obviously untrue.

Whoever attacks the popular falsehoods of his time will find that a lie defends itself by telling other lies. Nothing is so prolific, nothing can so multiply itself, nothing can lay and hatch as many eggs, as a good, healthy, lie.

Tell the lie over and over and over. It's an art that Trump understands well. There's no better evidence than his absolutely false claim that he opposed the Iraq War in 2002.

You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.

It's not a 24-hour news cycle, it's a 60-second news cycle now, it's instantaneous. It has never been easier to get away with telling lies. It has never been easier to get away with the glib one liner.

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

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

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.

Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.

The spin overwhelms the substance. That's very clearly what happened.

Mr. Trump regularly lies and, when confronted with contrary evidence, he lies louder.

He warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies

Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially insofar as it might bring out something favorable to the opponent.... The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

Sometimes hyperbole and lying are not easily distinguishable [in politics].

Your case for war was a pack of lies.

There is a lot of spinning and a lot of lying in our times—in politics, in government, in sports and everywhere. It’s gotten to the point where … you no longer believe the first version of anything. It wasn’t always that way. I guess it started for me with Vietnam, when the establishment felt it had to lie to justify a policy that as it turned out was never going to work.

Propaganda is bad when it comes from the enemy. It is good when it comes from us.

The fake news and the lying doesn't surprise me anymore. The one thing we know he is consistent about, Trump, is lying.

Don't get me wrong: politicians have been lying for a long time, long before Donald Trump was born, but the degree of just nonstop rage, grievance, prevarication, I haven't seen, probably because we haven't had a direct line from a politician's id to the public before.

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.

At no time did I suggest that violence is justice, and I can't believe I even have to explain that. But the alternative is letting someone like Kayleigh McEnany misquote and manipulate what you say. McEnany, who repeatedly lies to the American people.

If you can make people believe lies are the facts, then you can control them.

When it comes to snowing people, one effective technique is to get a whole bunch of verifiable facts right and then add one or two that are untrue.