Michael Musto Quotes

You can't make a representation and then claim you didn't make it. You know, it just shouldn't work that way.

When I write that I've known about something for a long time, that's not a boast. That's a confession. It's me acknowledging that I have withheld something important from the public.

The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

I personally think that if you deny something or if you hide something you're inadvertently admitting it's wrong.

Tell them I lied.

You let men in power assume power for the Little Man. But you yourself remain silent. You give men in power or impotent people with evil intentions the power to represent you. Only too late do you realize that again and again you are being defrauded

You may choose to look the other way but you can never again say you did not know.

Only the mob takes the Fifth.

It is not right, my fellow-countrymen, you who know very well all the crimes committed in our name. It's not at all right that you do not breathe a word about them to anyone, not even to your own soul, for fear of having to stand in judgment of yourself. I am willing to believe that at the beginning you did not realize what was happening; later, you doubted whether such things could be true; but now you know, and still you hold your tongues.

There's a lot of things blamed on me that never happened. But then, there's a lot of things that I did that I never got caught at.

The silent bear no witness against themselves.

A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to do as he likes in acting for another, under the pretext that the affairs of the other are his own affairs.

I work for myself, which is fun. Except when I call in sick, I know I'm lying.

Innocence has a single voice that can only say over and over again, "I didn't do it." Guilt has a thousand voices, all of them lies.

When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.

I didn't have an agent. I would just write down that I was with my brother's agency, and then the agency would get calls and say that they had no idea who I was.

[Y]ou never come right out and admit you have stretched the rules for your own benefit. You do it and shut up about it, and hope you don't get caught, because if you are caught no one or no one who has any sense will come forward and say he has done the same thing himself.

I had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all.

Sometimes, if she simply remained quiet, and let the inadequacy of his excuses reverberate on the air, he became ashamed and backtracked.

I have done nothing wrong.

Write anything you want because we'll never be heard from again.

With other people, Hilly hands out lies like the Presbyterians hand out guilt, but it's our own silent agreement, this strict honesty, perhaps the one thing that has kept us friends

God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!

I have never lied, “ Mr. Barris counters, standing as well. “I do not share what I am not at liberty to say. I gave my word and I intend to keep it but I have never lied to you. You never even asked me, you assumed I knew nothing.

What I wished more than anything was that the thing hadn't happened at all, and I thought that by not mentioning it I'd be doing everyone else a favor.