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I insist on the truth. I surround myself with people who tell the truth.

Ever since I came to Congress in 1992, there are those who have been trying to silence my voice. I've been told to 'sit down and shut up' over and over again. Well, I won't sit down and I won't shut up until the full and unvarnished truth is placed before the American people.

I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.

I've done truth to power all my life. It's got me into trouble, but who cares?

I just feel like sometimes people don't want to hear the truth. It's hard when you hear the truth. People want to hear what they want to hear. Sometimes I have a hard time with that because I'm very honest.

What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.

I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to 'truthiness.'

The only people that ever stand up and tell the truth are who? Intelligence officers. Because our culture is, never break faith with the truth. We'll tell you, you don't have to drag it out of us.

Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.