Fact Distortion Quotes

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.

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.

Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.

For most politicians, facts lead to conclusions. For George W. Bush, conclusions lead to facts.

The political misrepresentation of facts is one of the incidents of a free press in every free country.

Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts.

Usually when you interview somebody for a number of hours, they'll say something that is self-aggrandizing or is a manipulation of the facts.

Democrats refuse to deal with reality. They make things up, sensationalize common sense solutions, and exacerbate this obsession over political correctness.

Sensationalism sells: Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

The President Donald Trump has great difficulty with the truth on many issues.

Media bias is one thing. Rejection of reality is another

When it comes to Republican debates, fibs and fits come first; facts come last.

I am the president of Poland, and I will never accept Poles being insulted or humiliated or facts being distorted that hurt our dignity.

There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.

The mainstream media has its own agenda. They do not want to print the facts. They have an agenda, they have a slant, they have a bias. It is outrageous to me.

Point of view changes so much as time goes on. And it's important to acknowledge that the truth is multifaceted. And yet that conversation has a very different meaning now because of this whole alternative facts thing, calling everything you don't like "fake news."

Great Daniel Patrick Moynihan said that everyone's entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts. I'm not sure that's true anymore.

Media bias in editorials and columns is one thing. Media fraud in reporting 'facts' in news stories is something else. ...The issue is not what various journalists or news organizations' editorial views are. The issue is the transformation of news reporting into ideological spin, along with self-serving taboos and outright fraud.

It's unfortunate people can twist and turn things to fit whatever narrative they'd like it to fit.

The misunderstandings - or, what really bothers me are the intentional misrepresentations of the facts, which take place on a fairly regular basis. To think that we, people who are involved in counterterrorism, do not care about civilian casualties or deaths or injuries, is just totally, totally wrong.

Don’t push out figures when facts are going in the opposite direction.

'Alternative facts' is really one of the better things that's come out in a long time. 'Alternative facts?' It's brilliant! Really? Alternative facts? There are two different realities?