Quotes about Hoax

Winston Churchill

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Mark Twain

The wronger a conspiracy is, the better it is.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910

Clint Eastwood

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

Justin Bieber

You know me... I can't resist a good prank.

PolitiFact

The Top Lie of 2010!

The claims made by some Republicans were so absurd and extreme that the whole Party was tarred. Some even claimed that the legislation required “Death Panels” which would decide on which elderly people would be treated and which should be abandoned to no die with no treatment when there was no such thing even proposed by anyone, much less passed in the legislation.

Dave Barry

I suspect that LaGuardia is an elaborate prank, and New York has a real airport nearby that only locals know about.

Alex Jones

Sandy Hook is a synthetic, completely fake, with actors - in my view, manufactured.

Jeffrey Kluger

It's not mere extremism that makes folks at the fringes so troubling; it's extremism wedded to false beliefs. Humans have long been dupes, easily gulled by rumors and flat-out lies.

Andrew Jackson

A humbug!!

Commenting on the presidential nomination of James K. Polk:

Donald Trump

Global Warming -- a lot of it is a hoax. It's a hoax.

Elvis Presley

I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.

Orson Scott Card

Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

James Inhofe

Global warming might be the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

What makes this quote particularly memorable is that Inhofe was actually the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and thus will go down in history.

Orson Welles

Fake is as old as the Eden tree.

Kate Millett

Life is a publicity stunt. A shill. You've been had.

Gale Sayers

Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

Yip Harburg

It's a Barnum and Bailey world, Just as phony as it can be...

Barack Obama

And yes, my plan will continue to reduce the carbon pollution that is heating our planet - because climate change is not a hoax. More droughts and floods and wildfires are not a joke. They're a threat to our children's future. And in this election, you can do something about it.

Umberto Eco

From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.

Al Gore

Fake news has been around as long as news has been around.

Sebastian Gorka

Let's talk about real fake news. If this were about a religion or if this were about a Muslim ban, then how come the largest Muslim nation on the planet...Indonesia, exactly, isn't listed?

Bernie Sanders

The bottom line is that when Senator Inhofe says, 'Global warming is a hoax,' he is just dead wrong, according to the vast majority of climate scientists.

Al Yankovic

As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people's heads.”

Jimi Hendrix

The world is nothing but a big gimmick.

James Stockdale

I had the best seat in the house to watch that event, and our destroyers were just shooting at phantom targets -- there were no PT boats there. There was nothing there but black water and American fire power

Stockdale was then a Navy pilot flying over the scene. It was a supposed attack by North Vietnamese PT boats against our ships that was President Johnson’s justification for escalating U. S. involvement in the Vietnam war. Some argue that the President acted on the basis of insufficient and uncorroborated information while opponents believe that the administration trumped up an excuse to escalate the war.

Hoax Quotes