"Everyone lies when answering this question," says Harris.
Laymon further charges that the US lies when it acts as if "masculinities aren't the problem.
I had a couple bad lies when I was down on that bottom, too.
"The west lies when it says it hasn't imposed sanctions on our medical sector.
And this is where the larger problem lies: when states try to enforce impossible bans, everyone loses.
"Look at this happy family," it lies, when the family is imprisoned, impoverished, in fear of their lives.
That's what they want people to think, but it doesn't matter if somebody lies when you know the truth".
Hemingway goes on to describe a conversation with Ezra Pound who says Ford only lies "when he is very tired".
Critics of Mr Schneider, including this newspaper, portrayed him as giving in to this tension, and being willing to tell "necessary lies" when it suited his purposes.
First, there are strong grounds for believing that Mr Mahmood told me lies when he gave evidence to me on the 27th of June.
Similarly, the relationship between ministers and officials, and where the accountability lies when something goes wrong, was acknowledged by all to be ambiguous.
