Word: liar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said, was "the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life." Bob Dole, Goldwater's leader in the Senate in the 1980s, "doesn't have the leadership qualities that his job as minority leader requires." After Iran-contra, Goldwater said Ronald Reagan must be either "a liar or an incompetent." And Reagan had been the most famous Goldwaterite...
...walking along a road and encounter two people. One person is a liar and the other always tells the truth. There's a fork in the road. One road will lead you to Harvard and the other leads to Yale. Both of the people know which road is which, but you do not. You can ask one of the people one question of your choice, and of course you'd rather go to Harvard. So what would...
...either of the two which road the other person would tell you to take to get to Harvard, and then take the opposite road. The liar will always point to the road to Yale, either because he is a liar or because he would lie about what the truth-teller would say. Since no matter who you ask, the liar has a part in the answer, you will always be told the road to Yale...
...went a long way toward clouding her image as a woman mistreated by a rogue President. That evening lawyer Bob Bennett publicized her efforts to snag a fat book contract. Two days later, by coincidence, Willey's onetime friend Julie Steele released her affidavit painting Willey as a liar. Within 48 hours the President was enjoying a reaffirmation of his lofty approval ratings, the public was back enjoying March Madness, and the pundits who had pronounced Clinton dead were once again left staring at an empty tomb...
...been able to provide: that of course the better angels of Clinton's nature are in bed with his devils, that each side requires the other, that his political gifts can't be separated from his personal flaws. Idealist and cynic, moralist and seducer, truth teller and liar, misty-eyed romantic and gimlet-eyed backstabber--it's all one package. Maybe the right leader for now is the one who will stop at nothing, the one who can be absolutely sincere while lying through his teeth...