The media I’ve had a lot to do with is lazy. We fed them and they ate it every day.

 —Michael Deaver

Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them.

 —Harold Evans

Only the suppressed word is dangerous.

Ludwig Borne

It depends on what the meaning of “is” is.

Bill Clinton

Some who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts.

 —Kahlil Gibran

If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

 —Anatole France

Not every item of news should be published. Rather must those who control news policies endeavor to make every item of news serve a certain purpose.

—Joseph Goebbels

That’s not a lie, it’s a terminological inexactitude.

 —Alexander Haig

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.

 —Abraham Lincoln

The great masses of the people ... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.

 —Adolph Hitler

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.

 —Soren Kierkegaard

Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others.

– Doris Lessing

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.

 —Herbert Spencer

To die for an idea: it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true.

 —H.L. Mencken

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

–Thomas Jefferson

When a person goes to a country and finds their newspapers filled with nothing but good news, he can bet there are good men in jail.

 —Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have.

—Richard Salant

You shake a slogan at an American and it’s just like showing a hungry dog a bone.

 —Will Rogers