“A lie that is accepted by a sufficient number of ignorant voters becomes a political truth.”

“You've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies.”

“A lie told often enough becomes the truth.”

“A lie can become the truth in the hands of a despotic ruler.”

“The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.”

“People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.”

“That's what you get for telling the truth. Someone calls you a liar. Most people will accept a likely lie to an unlikely truth. In fact, they prefer it.”

“If I were to run, I'd run as a Republican. They're the dumbest group of voters in the country. They believe anything on Fox News. I could lie and they'd still eat it up. I bet my numbers would be terrific.”

“It is... becoming obvious to them that the cause must lie in their own ignorance, and in that they have allowed themselves to be misinformed, influenced and used.”

“It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.”