Misleading Statements Quotes

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

The claims made about Iraq's WMD capabilities before the invasion were inaccurate, wrong, and in some cases, deliberately misleading.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

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

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.

If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.

He’s one of the few men in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

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.

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.

Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.

When I was knowingly misled but only learned that much later, that's really when I started to become disillusioned at the White House.

All men prefer a false promise to a flat refusal.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

We suffer quite as much from exaggerated, hysterical, and untruthful statements in the press as from any wrongdoing by businessmen or politicians.

Donald Trump is a fraud. Listening to him talk about how he's going to put American first again, he's spent his entire career putting his own profits first.

There's a tendency for designers to embellish the size of their business. I never lie.

Modi is an excellent orator - sure, anybody who spouts untruths is an excellent orator.

Trump was so different - in a bad way - that I thought the best thing I could do was to resist him. And that's because he was attacking the institutions of our democracy, from the First Amendment and the free press to the judiciary. He was stifling internal dissent, and then he was making false and misleading statements routinely. And to me, that's what takes us down the road to authoritarianism and that's why I decided to start resisting him.

The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.

All sweeping assertions are erroneous.

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.