“If you tell them what they want to hear, they don't bother to try to see.”
Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty
“No, you don't want the American people to hear what the facts are, Helen, and I'm going to tell them the facts.”
Source: Press briefing http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2005/11/20051108.html, November 8, 2005
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