“The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts. And there was a considerable challenge to that here and understandably so.”
- Howard Baker

"False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness; and when this is done, one path towards error is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened."
- Charles Darwin

"Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable."
- Mark Twain

"There are lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Mark Twain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_damned_lies,_and_statistics

"A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent."
- William Blake

"Sometimes, some lies that spoken with high confidence could be more receptive than facts that spoken with doubt."
- Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

Calling the tail a leg is an example of bending the facts....

"How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg?  Four.  Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg." 
- Abraham Lincoln

"The truth is more important than the facts."
- Frank Lloyd Wright

"The facts are always less than what really happened."
- Nadine Gordimer

"To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another."
- John Burroughs

Views from different angles may be regarded as facts, but are perhaps just viewpoints.....

"After you've heard two eyewitness accounts of an auto accident, you begin to worry about history." 
- Author Unknown

"Listening to both sides of a story will convince you that there is more to a story than both sides." 
- Frank Tyger

"Facts may be colored by the personalities of the people who present them."
- Reginald Rose, Twelve Angry Men

Facts are supposed to be the truth that cannot be bent or altered......

"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
- John Adams, The Portable John Adams

"We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation of facts, by exploitation of uncritical minds, and by the pollution of the language."
- Arne Tiselius

https://www.flickr.com/photos/lessonsproject/17115364612/

"Feelings could override facts, as facts could alter feelings. Choose the truth first, rather than following after feelings."
- Anthony Liccione

"There are no facts, only interpretations."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

https://www.flickr.com/photos/lessonsproject/15341571349/

Sometimes it is difficult to determine whether a statement is the truth based on facts or just an opinion (which may not be objective but based on someone's background, biases etc.).