Sanjay Gupta Quotes

They're feeding the people a line of bull, and they are spinning and people are dying.

You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.

They're not even within 100 miles of Baghdad. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion.

I remain terrified of the capacity of the media, the capacity of spin doctors, here and abroad, particularly the United States media, to perpetuate false lies, perpetuate lies.

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

You don't need a digital David Petraeus or a President Bush avatar to distract you from the truth. You don't need to wait decades to have disinformation beamed into your head. You just need a constant stream of misleading information, half truths, and fictions to be promoted, pushed, and peddled until they are accepted as fact.

I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.

In politics, not all lies are all lies. And not all truths are complete.

You can fool some of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time. That’s usually enough.

In this crazy political business, at least in our times, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.

Selective truth

The listeners can see through our manipulation of the news too clearly. It is all laid on too thickly.

In politics there is a lot of spin—a lot of BS. My job is to cut through the BS.

We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.

You know, the media always tries to twist things and make things into what they're not.

I wish the media stopped making two and two equal five all the time.

But just before they cut back to the main newscaster, I see the unmistakable flash of that same mockingjay's wing. The reporter has simply been incorporated into the old footage. She's not in District 13 at all. Which begs the question, What is?

Americans need bullshit the way koala bears need eucalyptus leaves. They've become totally addicted to it. They get so much of it back home that they can't survive without it.

When campaigns use one-word labels, typically it's meant to distract and destroy.

By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.

It's not just politicians. Any spokesman for a vested interest is well schooled in how to say what it is they wish to say, which may bear no relation at all to what you've asked them.

If you destroy the credibility of those people or institutions that could undermine your own, you create an opportunity for your voice, however irresponsible or misleading it may be, to gain traction.

Some people believe everything they see on TV. People, it's called tel-lie-vision!