We, as a culture, use television as at least one of the great arbiters of truth. Even though we know it's fiction, when we see it portrayed, we believe it. We recognize it as part of our culture.
I know this country well enough to know that it can’t sustain a conflict if people do not believe in the purposes.
Without the ability of issue groups to tell the truth, who knows what the public will believe.
What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears.
Allegations become facts, and facts become truth in the eyes of the public, whether they are true or not.
It is time we recognized that belief is not a private matter; it has never been merely private. In fact, beliefs are scarcely more private than actions are, for every belief is a fount of action in potential.
I'm so boring that press kind of leave me alone now. People will believe what they want to believe anyway.
I usually save these answers [on the institution of marriage] for my Barbara Walters Special, but she didn't call so I've never been engaged, despite popular belief.
