"It is a tribute to the American people that our leaders perceived that they had to lie to us, it is not a tribute to us that we were so easily misled."

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Source : "Blowback Strikes US" by Larry Mosqueda, www.counterpunch.org. September 18, 2001.

Daniel Ellsberg

#Lying Quotes #People Quotes #Leader Quotes

“Cursed be he that scalps the reputation of the dead.”
“The whole world has changed after September 11th.”
“One of the messages I presented to the coal industry was, "If you want to have major transmission built, start encouraging wind development." That's because the cultural value and acceptance of wind energy provides an opportunity to build transmission lines that are not as desirable with traditional forms of generation.”
“None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.”
“Quality is like quantity, but there's a lot less of it.”
“I don't think much of Tito Ortiz. He needs to grow balls and sign to fight Chuck Liddell.”
“I do not mind having written the song at all. I just wish that I had written it in a different key, as the high d is hard to play. I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.”
“There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.”

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