Liar's Kingdom Quotes

“When defecating in the Capitol is glorified by our own leaders as patriotic, how can a representative democracy survive?”
― Andrew Weissmann, Liar's Kingdom: How to Stop Trump's Deceit and Save America

“Today, we face a choice of our own. Do we allow the deliberate erosion of truth in the name of a nonexistent “right to lie”?”
― Andrew Weissmann, Liar's Kingdom: How to Stop Trump's Deceit and Save America

“This book is meant to be a sobering dissection of an urgent problem facing our country: our body politic is vulnerable to political lies, and our laws have so far failed to protect this Achilles heel. We need to adapt, lest the next dissection be part of an autopsy.”
― Andrew Weissmann, Liar's Kingdom: How to Stop Trump's Deceit and Save America

“No wonder that, many years later, FBI Director Louis Freeh required all incoming FBI special agents to visit the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, to understand the great power they soon would be privileged to wield and to absorb what can happen when that power goes unchecked.”
― Andrew Weissmann, Liar's Kingdom: How to Stop Trump's Deceit and Save America