evidence: Bill Murray is trending over a quote that comes off as very anti-government. But did he actually say those words or was he misquoted? [...] Bill Murray has been many things over the course of his long career, a lot of it funny, but the actor has mostly avoided major controversy since first coming on the scene back in the 1970s. He’s a singular dude, taking a different strategy when it comes to his roles and how he navigates Hollywood. Has he had some industry beefs over the years? For sure. But in terms of getting political, the dude really hasn’t gone there all that often. That’s why it was somewhat interesting when Bill Murray began trending on social media over some reported comments he made about the U.S. government. Though now it turns out that he might have been falsely quoted in order to get some clicks. The message attributed to Bill Murray was shared on Twitter and made some decent rounds on the social media platform. The original is a picture of Murray with the quote, "So, if we lie to the government it’s a felony. But if they lie to us it’s politics. " It was just the kind of thing bland enough to not be all that controversial, but also lightning-rod-ish enough to get a certain sector of folks fired up. It got the actor trending with a number of folks jumping on the anti-government bandwagon, but now according to some fact-checking from Reuters, it doesn’t look like Bill Murray said any such thing.