Omission Quotes

(on his mock "crusade" against the Associated Press regarding his claim that coined the word "truthiness") It`s a sin of omission, is what it is. You`re not giving people the whole story about truthiness. It`s like Shakespeare still being alive and not asking him what "Hamlet" is about.

In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough.

Whoever`s in charge of my Wikipedia, alright, whoever you are - the major, most egregious thing in there isn`t that, you know, apparently I`m bisexual and have like, twenty kids and, um, that I learned everything I know from a sixteen-year-old who probably wrote that in himself, but the most egregious of all the errors is that it says I am a massive David Bowie fan. Which is true, but it is a gross omission to leave out my obsession with Prince. Absolutely. So whoever you are, throw that in there. Go for it. You know what? Make me eighty feet tall. And you know, make me a transsexual. But put in Prince.

The American people deserve honesty, and this budget is dishonest by omission, and dishonest in how it portrays the overall budget projections.

Judicious omission is preferable to correct superfluity