Michele Bachmann Quotes

As I understand it, Lacey has dismissed all of the fact checkers.

I have learned that it is just as well to avoid even the appearance of something which you prefer not to have published as a fact! So many things are published as facts in any case which have no foundation in them whatsoever, that I don't suppose it really matters! For fair minded people usually wait until they verify a statement before they believe it, and those who believe it without verification are the ones who want to believe it!

It would be impossible to be fact-checking Donald Trump all the time.

In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.

Fact-checking can wreak havoc on Chinese political mythology.

It's not cool to have your name in print when it's not the truth.

Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?

But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.

If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing.

People forget that unauthorized does not mean untrue and authorized does not mean authentic.

Because what I say from that podium has got to be accurate, and I'm the only one who's going to be held liable if it's not accurate.

I just love when the Internet is wrong. It's the only thing that will save journalism.

If it comes to be believed that we are simply a propaganda organ of some kind, as a lot of people believe about some of our competitors, that would be a problem.

Careful writing is important for many reasons, not least that intelligent but hurried reporters will trust the presser, resulting in a cascade of secondary damage.

You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.

Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel.

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

When we hear news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

It's a problem sometimes when you speak to journalists. They quote you, and then they read what they wrote, and then they even explain it. It's dangerous.

I did a book event with a former colleague, Bob Bauer, and was so relieved that he said I got all the CIA stuff right.

Every fact in my films is true. And yet how often do I have to read over and over again about supposed falsehoods?

It gets embarrassing to say something untrue because you put it online and everyone knows about it, so it's better to tell the truth.

So much crap passes as information that not only does the audience sometimes miss the distinction between news and crap, the editors sometimes miss the distinction.

Journalists who swallow the subject's account whole and publish it are not journalists but publicists.