We all thought it was a huge rumor.

We thought it was a little joke. I mean, we get in trouble for sneaking out of our house to go to the movies.

My fellow Americans, there's an old saying that "nothing spreads so quickly as a rumor," so I thought it was time to speak with you directly, to tell you first hand about our dealings with Iran.

Buy the rumor, sell the fact.

Some report elsewhere whatever is told them; the measure of fiction always increases, and each fresh narrator adds something to what he has heard. [Lat., Hi narrata ferunt alio; mensuraque ficti Crescit et auditus aliquid novus adjicit auctor.]

What some invent the rest enlarge.