“The old Wall Street saying " buy on rumors, sell on the news," is alive and well, as can be seen from numerous sources in the media and the Internet. Rumors can drive herding behavior strongly.”

“I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.”

“I hear there's rumors on the internets [pause] that we're going to have a draft. We're not going to have a draft, period.”

“I don't have to listen to rumors about a man when I can judge him for myself.”

“Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story; rumors don't care what's true.”

“Memory… is an internal rumor.”

“Generating rumors is one thing even the most inept armed force does exceedingly well.”

“Rumors are spread by jealous people”

“The media, itself an arm of mega-corporate power, feeds the fear industry, so that people are primed like pumps to support wars on rumor, innuendo, legends, and lies.”

“The subject of a rumor is always the last to hear it.”