Neal Katyal Quotes

In the end, the responsibility of government abuse lies with the president.

The CIA claims that secrecy is necessary to hide what it's doing from enemies of the United States ... the real reason for secrecy is to hide what the CIA is doing from the American people.

No one wants a president to be guilty of obstruction of justice. The only thing worse than that is a guilty president who goes without punishment.

Many good journalists have attempted to confront Trump about his many lies and failures, and have failed.

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.

The attempts to distort the truth and to hide the facts behind blanket accusations have been undertaken at all stages of the Ukrainian crisis.

If truth is the first victim of war, then read on - I've got some great lies for you this month.

American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.

No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.

Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.

People are entitled to believe the government is constantly lying to them, but it isn't.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

We didn’t have a moral majority in America. If we did, Clinton would have been impeached.

All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.

In this crazy political business, at least in our times, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.

There are extremely few places in the world where the citizens believe their political leaders will be punished if they disobey the law.

Of all newspaper presses, I never heard anyone deny that the American is the worst.... [N]othing is easier than to make the people know only one side of a question; few things are easier than to keep them altogether from the knowledge of any particular affair; and, worse than all, on them [the American people] may easily be practiced the discovery that lies may work their intended effect, before the truth can overtake them. It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true or the suppression of things that are.

When the President starts lying he begins to need evidence to back up his lies because in this democracy he is questioned on his statements. It then percolates down through the bureaucracy that you are helping the Boss if you come up with evidence that is supportive of our public position and you are distinctly unhelpful if you commit to paper statements that might leak to the wrong people. The effect of that is to poison the flow of information to the President himself and to create a situation where a President can be almost, to use a metaphor, psychotically divorced from the realities in which he is acting....

The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.

I will be blunt: This program is breaking the law, and this President is breaking the law. Not only that, he is misleading the American people in his efforts to justify this program.

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

Donald Trump treats the truth like a second home. He doesn't always live there.

We need an attorney general for the people, not a presidential protector and puppet of the administration.

Whereas the handling of the case against President Nixon clearly strengthened the nation's respect for law, justice and truth, the Clinton impeachment may unfortunately have the opposite result.

Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed. It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal - hardly inspiring - standards of political conduct.