The TRUTH is more IMPORTANT than the FACTS.

All political THINKING for years past has been vitiated in the same WAY. PEOPLE can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own WISHES, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

Education is FAR less about a set of facts than a way of thinking, than learning how to critically THINK. And therefore, what I ALWAYS think should be the basis of education is not answers but QUESTIONS.

I DEAL in FACTS.

It's about communication. It's about honesty. It's about treating people in the organization as deserving to know the facts. You don't try to give them HALF the story. You don't try to HIDE the story. You treat them as - as TRUE equals, and you communicate and you communicate and communicate.

I will never apologize for changing the approach or STRATEGY when the FACTS CHANGE.

I've always said to everyone that EVER WORKED for me, if you get too dug in on a POSITION, the facts change, and you don't change to ADAPT to the facts, you will never be successful.

Life is not a MATTER of theories. Life is a matter of facts. It CALLS on the young and the old alike to FACE these facts, even THOUGH they are hard and sometimes UNPLEASANT.

I'm an optimist, so I THINK everything can be worked out and fixed. But from having cancer I learned that even if you're even an optimist, sometimes you just have to face the FACTS that CERTAIN THINGS are BROKEN.

Even THOUGH we all KNOW the facts, it's hard to RESIST the lure of a tan.

Having to censor yourself - whether it's LYING at the water cooler about how you spent your WEEKEND, scrubbing your FACEBOOK page of any revealing facts, or pretending to be with SOMEONE you aren't - is the ANTITHESIS of our foundation as a nation based on freedom of expression and association.

Do not be intimidated. Go where the story GOES. Report the facts. Make sure you've got it right. And don't let THINGS that the president says or that the White House does THROW you off your GAME.

Writing 'Men We Reaped' broke me in different ways at different spots in the drafting process. The first DRAFT was HARD because I was just getting it out. In some ways, that draft FAILED. I was really just telling the story, not making assessments - this HAPPENED, then this. Just PUTTING those facts down on paper was really painful.

Officials in every WHITE HOUSE crowbar the FACTS to make their CASES.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant FACTS, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people JUDGE the truth and falsehood in an open MARKET is a nation that is afraid of its people.