A Quote by Ron Nessen

Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.

Ron Nessen

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Believes Everybody Nobody Official Source Spokesman Trusts

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Ron Nessen
American - Politician
Born: May 25, 1934

The government spokesman announces that there is no truth in the charges of widespread corruption within the Cabinet; nobody believes him; he knows that nobody believes him, we know that he knows it, and he knows it too.

Terry Eagleton

In all countries, most of the time, official spokesman and official liar are the same thing!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Nobody believes in magicians any more, nobody believes that anyone can come along and wave a wand and turn you into a frog. But if you read in the paper that by injecting certain glands scientists can alter your vital tissues and you'll develop froglike characteristics, well, everybody would believe that.

Agatha Christie

In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

Harold MacMillan

As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature. Then what I decided is I am a spokesman for this other imagination of community - not the one showing up in the market. Nobody was tending to the way we're imaginatively connected to each other.

Robert Hass

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

Harold MacMillan

It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.

Samuel R. Delany

Nobody believes in ghosts, but everybody is afraid of them.

Helen McCloy

"The people" aren't running anything. That's why technology has replaced politics as the source of ideology. The ideological claims are hollow and absurd, and nobody believes them anymore.

John Zerzan

You know, I was at CBS News for 28 years. I may have run an unidentified source. Frankly, I don't remember.

Bernard Goldberg

All I can tell you is what I see at home- a lot of lessons learned from '86. That, 'OK, we'll go one-time amnesty and after that we'll really be good.' But nobody believes it this time, nobody believes it.

Michael C. Burgess

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to do and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought Anybody would do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

Charles R. Swindoll

Sometimes the routes leading to feelings of anger are so convoluted and circuitous that it takes enormous skill to discern their original source, or fountainhead. But regardless of the reason for or the source of the anger or the relative ease or complexity in perceiving either the anger or its source - everybody, but everybody, gets angry.