Meaghan Rath Quotes

Dishonesty is Trump's hallmark: He claimed that he had spoken clearly and boldly against going into Iraq. Wrong. He spoke in favor of invading Iraq. He said he saw thousands of Muslims in New Jersey celebrating 9/11. Wrong. He saw no such thing. He imagined it.

I did a lot of lying. I went through a big lying phase when I was in like third and fourth grade. I told all my friends I was in Les Misérables, and I was not. I also told them I was an Indian princess. Also not an Indian princess.

President Trump has a serious credibility problem. He tries to take credit for jobs he didn't create and, with respect to the F-35 program, savings that were achieved before he even took office.

Trump has a lot less than he says he does.

Creating fake facts does require a measure of haphazard research, insofar as they need to not just be possible, but also interesting.

Of course, politicians always say they're just describing their opponents' positions, even if they are in fact offering absurd caricatures, if not outright lies.

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

The certainty with which Cameron informed MPs and Shadow ministers of the specifics of a Labour offer that never actually existed suggests a degree of flexibility with the truth.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

I perpetuate rumors that I've dated people that I've never actually dated.

The average person tells a few white lies.

Advertising is legalized lying.

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.

[In a political debate:] I'm afraid those are facts that are not facts.

The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.

A falsehood in which some truth is not stated at the beginning, cannot be maintained in the end.

What’s the difference between my fabricating reports and your letting your agents do it? At least mine make sense.

Accusations fit on a bumper sticker. The truth is longer.

Many, many people exaggerate their accomplishments, blame their failures on others, and misrepresent reality in order to make themselves look better. This behavior is ubiquitous—sometimes intentional, more often subconscious. In ordinary life, we tolerate it, mutely or not, hoping that we are not as bad as the person whose lies we are listening to.

Slash and I hadn't talked in 19 years, and when we did talk, I was like, 'You wrote a lot of stuff that didn't even happen. It's not real.'

Having to respond to things that are made up or untrue tends to be a waste of time.

People where we come from hear so many lies that the truth stands out like a sore thumb.

Politicians lie.