#lies

I think it's time for the people and the press, in particular, to be more vigilant about not giving equal weight to lies as they give the truth. ↗

— Joe Wilson

#equal #for the people #give #giving #i

No longer is there a quest for the truth so much as there is this apparent need to present both sides of an issue even if one is nothing but lies and distortions. ↗

— Joe Wilson

#both #both sides #distortions #even #issue

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#business #daily #daily bread #empty #empty stomach

You see people on TV flying in to places just to pick up a baby, or brush some flies away. That's great if they can bring that issue to public attention. But that's not what I wanted to do. I was interested in committing to something that I could function in whether I was Debra Winger or not. Because nobody might care about that next week. ↗

— Debra Winger

#attention #away #baby #because #bring

The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself. ↗

— James Wolcott

#conned #government #lies #media #ourselves

I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand. ↗

— Gilbert White

#entertained #flies #hand #i #last

I don't hold America responsible for the largely oppressive governments in the 22 Arab countries. There are repressive Arab governments that are our allies and there are those that are our nominal enemies. It doesn't make a whole lot of difference to what extent we're involved in propping up those governments. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#america #arab #arab countries #countries #difference

I wanted to clear all the lies and let the truth come out. I have hate crawling through my system. ↗

— Aileen Wuornos

#come #crawling #hate #i #lies

For the amount of money that the country is going to spend this year on health care, you can go out and hire a doctor for every seven families in the US and pay the doctor almost $230,000 a year to cover them. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#amount #care #country #cover #doctor

There are things that I am very proud of and there are things that you are not so proud of. But I think that applies to any musician. ↗

— Bill Wyman

#any #applies #i #i am #i think