“I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself.”

—  Winston S. Churchill

This slanderous remark was attributed to Churchill, possibly by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels to depict him as a liar.
In German: »Ich glaube nur der Statistik, die ich selbst gefälscht habe«
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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1874–1965

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