George Osborne

One thing I learned about Gordon Brown is you've got to have the strength to just get in there and take him on. When you first hear him spouting his statistics and boasting about his record, it can be quite intimidating. But over time, shadowing him, I just realised that a lot of it was rubbish; a lot of it was baloney.

British Politician

Gary Johnson

We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney. More than 2 million Americans are behind bars now. Communist China has four times the population and they have 1.5 million people behind bars.

American Politician

Norman MacCaig

In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry.

Scottish Poet

Chloe Sevigny

It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like. Maybe that will always keep me an outsider, I don't know. But that's fine.

American Actress

Richard Ben Cramer

I used to think that the image of the press in the 1940s - a bunch of guys in hats screaming on the courthouse steps - was all baloney. I used to say, 'I know reporters. We're not like that.' But we are.

American Journalist

Dave Brat

We want everybody to get rich. The Republican Party is often called unloving, uncaring, not generous, or whatever - that's a bunch of baloney. We're the party that believes in free markets.

American Economist

Prue Leith

I believe passionately that the notion of having to work at a marriage is baloney. Making sacrifices and being a martyr makes one hell of a bad marriage.

South African Chef

Richard Branson

A complaint is a chance to turn a customer into a lifelong friend. I say that seriously, not as some press release baloney.

British Businessman

Bill Cunningham

Legacy? I'm a worker in the factory; all we care about is today! A legacy... what a bunch of baloney.

American Photographer

Al Smith

No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney.

Baloney refers to a common American deli meat, often seen in lunches.

US Food Reference

The word is iconic in American culture, representing simple, inexpensive food.

Cultural Icon

Don't confuse 'baloney' with 'bologna'; the latter is the original term for the sausage.

Confusion Alert

Using 'baloney' to mean nonsense highlights it's very informal; not for formal contexts.

Informal Expression

Used to express skepticism or doubt about what someone is saying.

Skepticism

Often carries a lighthearted, slightly mocking tone when calling something untrue.

Humor Tone

 to pseudo scientific baloney would be the nice word which you string together a bunch of words that sound good but it does absolutely nothing in this case allowing at trespass points allowing people to go through because your little tracker device said they were okay

The pattern behind...

 The truth of the matter is that a Feynman sandwich had a load of ham, but absolutely no baloney. What Feynman hated worse than anything else was intellectual pretense --