"Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule."

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"Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule."

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"Politicians often lie."

Paul Weyrich, American Critic

Lie, Politicians

"There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Lie, Lies, Nothing, Self, World

"In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class."

Beth Henley, American Playwright

Lie, Class

"The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie."

Hilaire Belloc, English Poet

Lie, Man

"Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true."

Elias Canetti, Swiss Author

Lie, Lies

"I keep reading between the lies."

Goodman Ace, American Writer

Lie, Lies, Reading

"Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early."

Gunther Grass, German Author

Lie, Lies

"I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette."

Anthony Hopkins, Welsh Actor

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"Our main agenda is to have ALL guns banned. We must use whatever means possible. It doesn't matter if you have to distort facts or even lie. Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed."

Sarah Brady, American Activist

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"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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Explore more quotes by Daniel Ellsberg

"Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress."

War, Congress, Constitution, Force

"Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule."

Lie, Nothing, Pretty

"There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare."

People, Courage, Being, Careers

"Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam."

War, Nixon, Vietnam

"If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country."

War, Country, Day, Doubt

"It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn't want the question raised, 'What's your relationship with Daniel Ellsberg?' And not one of them wrote me a letter because they didn't want a letter of theirs to show up in my trash - which the FBI had been going through."

Question, Want, Years

"The fact is that when it comes to judgment as to what should be secret and what should not be secret, Julian Assange's judgment has been pretty good so far."

Fact, Judgment, Pretty

"Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards of presidents, he is a decent man. But those standards aren't good enough. He's in a position either to kill or not to kill, and he's made the decision to kill."

Decision, Afghanistan, Choice

"President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people hoping that it would lead to a confrontation and claiming that it had. And could have resulted in the lost of many lives in the course of it."

People, Harm, President

"We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right."

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