Country Quote by Jeff Sessions

“What I cannot understand about the Russian,” Roosevelt complained, “is the way he will lie when he knows perfectly well that you know he…

— Edmund Morris

Now I have realized what the lie is. If I became a tsar, no one would ever dare to tell me a lie. I…

— Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia

“one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.” The president smiled. “Well, they’ve had enough time to play this game.…

— Tom Clancy

I was hoping to catch [Vladimir] Putin in a lie - like what happened to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper [in his congressional…

— Edward Snowden

There are also many instances where people hostile to the Soviet state are attempting by means of deceit and provocation to poison the minds…

— Filipp Golikov

The Russian story's all an excuse for the Democrats losing. That's a total witch hunt, the whole Russia story. It's a hoax. It's a…

— Donald Trump

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation

— Hilaire Belloc

I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full…

— Aldrich Ames

Any blaming that Russia could have been interfering in domestic affairs of the United States is slander. And it has no evidence at all.

— Dmitry Peskov

“would strain credibility that such privileges would be awarded to an intelligence defector who had refused to cooperate with Russian authorities.”

— Edward Jay Epstein

I have had no contacts or collusions with the Russians. And my exchange with Guccifer 2, based on the content and the timing, most…

— Roger Stone

I must choose my words carefully in order to avoid any negative interpretation. Among politicians, this is a tactic known as lying.

— Pat Paulsen