“A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it.”
“She wants to believe my excuses so bad. Every time I lie, she wants to believe me so much.”
“Lies were only as strong as the suckers that believed them.”
“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
“A lie is not so bad if it is kindly meant. If only she believed them...”
“If two parties with two sets of bad ideas cooperate, the result is not good policy, but policy that is extremely bad. What we really need are correct economic and politcal ideas, regardless of the party that pushes them.”