Is There Anything More Powerful Than the Truth?

"If you think that there's something more powerful than the truth, all that means is that you're better at lying than you are at telling the truth," he says. "You can contend with reality, and you can shape it, as wee already pointed out, but there's a lot of reality, and there's not that much of you." He urges politicians to stand up for what they believe in instead of pandering to their worst instincts.