I believe in telling the truth.
Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.
I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.
In this play we're dealing with relative truths - who's lying, who's telling the truth. But underneath that, Ed and I have hit this deeper level of intimacy between old friends that comes out in the play.
The truth is the truth is the truth. And as long as you tell the truth, you'll be okay in the end.
I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them
Telling the truth can be a dirty job.
When you can't tell the truth, tell *a* truth.
All I could say was, "I don't know what to do." I remember her taking me by the shoulders and looking me in the eye with a calm smile and saying simply, "Tell the truth, tell the truth, tell the truth.
There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the truth was utterly alien to them . . . and then there were people who lied because they were waiting for it to be time to tell th...
What are you suggesting I do Ralph?’ ‘I’m suggesting you tell the bloody truth whatever it is. The only place lying leads is trouble.’ “Sometimes that’s the only place telling the truth get you, too.
One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
Telling the truth has always come naturally to me. And I realize, that people like me are the reason the world hates the truth.
Isn't there a flaw in the logic of that phrase - speak truth to power? It assumes that power doesn't know the truth. But power knows the truth just as well, if not better, than the powerless know the truth. Enron knows what it's doing. We don't have ...
There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.
In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.
No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.
And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Picasso said, 'Art is a lie that tells the truth.' What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?
We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
