Peter Costello Quotes

I've heard it quoted that I was dead. You can't believe anything you read. That was just an off-hand remark somebody picked up, and now it's been quoted and quoted, and therefore misquoted.

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

As far as the press is concerned, they're going to say what they want to say. Probably about 10-15 percent of the time It's accurate.

A lot of stuff written about me is rubbish. I don't know where they get it from, sometimes.

The media can't get anything straight.

I don't want to defend rumors. It's certainly nothing new. The only development in recent years is the [lower] threshold at which news organizations will print rumors.

There are many mistakes that the media makes all the time. They misreport something, they don't report something, they get a fact wrong.

I've read some things that people said about me, and some of it's not even close to accurate. Honestly, I don't even have ESPN in my house. There's really no point.

There's all sorts of rumors... there's so many variables there. And I've learned with AC/DC also not to believe the rumors, because even fans fake things.

Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

Folks will say anything, and next time round they'll believe it.

Yes, there is a ton of information on the web, but much of it is egregiously inaccurate, unedited, unattributed and juvenile.

People should fact check. People shouldn’t have to go through that and shouldn’t answer to innuendos.

I myself was to experience how easily one is taken in by a lying and censored press and radio in a totalitarian state... a steady diet over the years of falsifications and distortions made a certain impression on one's mind and often misled it.

I'm against the people that make up stories and make up sources. They shouldn't be allowed to use sources unless they use somebody's name.

Just look carefully, I only want you to look carefully. Do not repeat the lies of liars. Do not become like them. Once again, I blame al-Jazeera before it ascertains what takes place. Please, make sure of what you say and do not play such a role.

Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.

I should never go with rumors because they're often not correct.

Journalists are getting big stories wrong, over and over again.

One has to live in Washington to know what a city of rumors it is.

It wasn't just one journalist getting it wrong, everybody was getting it wrong.

The democratization of news is fine and splendid, but it's not reporting. It's based on a fragment of information picked up from television or the web, and people are sounding off about something that's not necessarily true.

I have no problem with being vetted. What I do have a problem with is being lied about and then putting that as truth.

Journalistic conventions make it hard for reporters to deal with a big, complicated lie.

Go ahead and make up a ton of lies about me. That's way more interesting than pretending Wikipedia has any real information.