[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.
Christopher HitchensTag: lies denial justification torture
During the 1992 election I concluded as early as my first visit to New Hampshire that Bill Clinton was hateful in his behavior to women, pathological as a liar, and deeply suspect when it came to money in politics. I have never had to take any of that back, whereas if you look up what most of my profession was then writing about the beefy, unscrupulous 'New Democrat,' you will be astonished at the quantity of sheer saccharine and drool. Anyway, I kept on about it even after most Republicans had consulted the opinion polls and decided it was a losing proposition, and if you look up the transcript of the eventual Senate trial of the president—only the second impeachment hearing in American history—you will see that the last order of business is a request (voted down) by the Senate majority leader to call Carol and me as witnesses. So I can dare to say that at least I saw it through.
Christopher HitchensTag: money politics women lies history united-states misogyny elections corruption chauvinism us-presidents sexism trials presidents new-hampshire bill-clinton 1992 pathology carol-blue democratic-party-us impeachment impeachment-of-bill-clinton new-democrats republican-party-us us-presidential-election-1992 us-senate
I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.
Barack ObamaTag: lies jokes misdirection
But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.
Ray BradburyTag: truth lies willful-ignorance lying
It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.
Kim EdwardsA bitter reality of truth
can be wisely told
in a sweet tale of lullaby.
Tag: life truth reality lies sweet bitter tell-a-tale
I'd rather hear an ugly truth, rather than an obscure lie.
Ana MonnarHe lies to himself. If Eugenides talked in his sleep, he'd lie then, too.
Megan Whalen TurnerTag: lies lying tricksters
Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.
Halldór LaxnessAmerica's intellectual community has never been very bright. Or honest. They're all sheep, following whatever the intellectual fashion of the decade happens to be. Demanding that everyone follow their dicta in lockstep. Everyone has to be open-minded and tolerant of the things they believe, but God forbid they should ever concede, even for a moment, that someone who disagrees with them might have some fingerhold of truth.
Orson Scott CardTag: truth lies patterns governement lockstep
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