Tom Fitton Quotes

Bush is good at stating the obviously untrue.

People tend to say a lot of things that are not true.

Dishonesty is Trump's hallmark: He claimed that he had spoken clearly and boldly against going into Iraq. Wrong. He spoke in favor of invading Iraq. He said he saw thousands of Muslims in New Jersey celebrating 9/11. Wrong. He saw no such thing. He imagined it.

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

You who speak languages, you are such liars.

Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former Miss Texas, and neither is true.

Politicians are masters of the art of deception.

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

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.

Politicians learn to turn the truth into something that they want the truth to be.

In politics where immediate success is attained by saying what people can be made to believe, rather than what is demonstrably true, accent is generally placed on the desirable rather than on the possible.

The trouble with half-truths is you never know which half you've got.

Your case for war was a pack of lies.

This is an administration that has gotten 600 Americans killed by not telling the truth. I don’t see why anyone would believe any of the political ads.

The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.

… nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

A falsehood in which some truth is not stated at the beginning, cannot be maintained in the end.

People don't trust anything anymore. We don't trust our government. We don't trust our automobile makers. We don't trust our pharmaceutical houses. We don't trust our doctors or our hospitals or our cops. We don't trust Congress. And a lot of Americans don't trust the president of the U.S. So the media are simply regarded as another piece of the American establishment. People think we're trying to get away with something, trying to pull the wool over their eyes, trying to push an agenda..

It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.

Donald Trump is liar-in-chief.

President Trump has a serious credibility problem. He tries to take credit for jobs he didn't create and, with respect to the F-35 program, savings that were achieved before he even took office.

The fake news and the lying doesn't surprise me anymore. The one thing we know he is consistent about, Trump, is lying.

Having to respond to things that are made up or untrue tends to be a waste of time.