Effort Quote by M. K. Stalin

That statement was not addressed to the authors of political statements. I said that I deplore attempts to misinform the public and to /trigger/…

— Mario Monti

It is a tribute to the American people that our leaders perceived that they had to lie to us, it is not a tribute…

— Daniel Ellsberg

It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.

— Tennessee Williams

Our words, actions, and diplomatic efforts should be aimed at trying to achieve pragmatic goals rather than creating rhetorical effect.

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Lifting whole passages from someone else's speeches is not change you can believe in. It's change you can Xerox.

— Hillary Clinton

“It’s true, though, that we struggled to stay on message. My advisors had to deal with a candidate—me—who often wanted something new to say,…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“Political language . . . is designed to make its lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

— George Orwell

When there are falsehoods and ludicrous statements made at briefings, we've got to call that out.

— Brian Stelter

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

— Pat Paulsen

Some have tried to use my work for politics, using inaccurate or out-of-context information that, repeated enough, becomes truth to some even though it…

— Santiago Calatrava

We are so cleverly manipulated and influenced by the media and establishments on both the right and left, that the truth has become hopelessly…

— Jules Carlysle