As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing. – Golda Meir
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods. – Hannah Arendt