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Quotes About Cover-up

since people who "discovered" bodies in odd places were often the people who had put them there in the first place.
~ Laurie R. King
In the long run, there are no secrets. in science. The universe will not cooperate in a cover-up.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Soze shook his head. "If someone checks our Internet search records, don't you think it will look suspicious that before we called the police, we checked up on the evidence?" Poe laughed mirthlessly. "We're Rose & Grave, junior. Everything we do looks suspicious.
~ Diana Peterfreund
This could blow up in everybody's faces, this could be worse than Watergate, worse than Iran-Contra, worse than the little blue dress.
~ Donald E. Westlake
It takes many, many coats to cover the red. No matter what I do, it seeps right through, like the walls are bleeding.
~ Jennifer Niven
know, you'll say anything is possible. But don't you think the polis would have been all over him? There'd have been search parties and petitions and pictures on lamp-posts and appeals and T-shirts and so on and so forth? A beautiful young mother disappears?' 'Mrs Murray reckons it was hushed up.' 'Mrs Murray reckons 9/11 was done by lizards.
~ Jenny Colgan
Today, corruption has won and justice has lost. I brought corruption cases in good faith involving powerful people, and the political and legal establishment blatantly covered up and retaliated by targeting my law license.
~ Andrew Thomas
I'd learned long before this that the louder and more publicly a person talked about his faith, the more he probably had to cover up.
~ Ann B. Ross
During Grover Cleveland's second term, in the 1890s, the White House deceived the public by dismissing allegations that surgeons had removed a cancerous growth from the President's mouth; a vulcanized-rubber prosthesis disguised the absence of much of Cleveland's upper left jaw and part of his palate.
~ Robert Dallek
Presidential power was overruled by the high bench in July 1974, when President Nixon was ordered to turn over some audio tapes of his White House conversations, including the 'smoking gun' tape of June 23, 1972, that revealing the Watergate cover up.
~ Helen Thomas
The story of Little Blue Riding Hood is true. Only the color has been changed to prevent an investigation.
~ Stan Freberg
The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.
~ George F. Kennan
Are you familiar with 9/11? Building 7? You know what was in there? All the Enron stuff. I guess that building went down on its own.
~ Jesse Ventura
I know that we've had a lot of immigration. How many immigrants are in prison? And what I found was - and I'm a fanatical researcher - what I found was a massive cover-up by both the government and the media in not telling us how many immigrants are in prison.
~ Ann Coulter
In time, the expression "Potemkin village" came to mean a sham, or something fraudulent, erected or spoken to conceal an unpleasant truth. As such, it became a cliché; now, it is part of the language.
~ Robert K. Massie
There were reasons for the cover-up of SARS, including the fear, typical of repressive systems, of passing bad news up the ranks; a tangled bureaucracy; and the singular priority of economic growth over all other considerations; but the naked fact stood that the Chinese government was willing to sacrifice its own people and place the entire world in jeopardy, risking millions of lives, simply to avoid accountability for the outbreak.
~ Lawrence Wright
What's the best place to hide a car? In an airport long-term lot. Like where's the best place to hide a grain of sand? On the beach
~ Lee Child
16. El caso (The Affair)
~ Lee Child
I perceive that marble conceals a multitude of sins.
~ Aldous Huxley
Sometimes the truth can't be put on anybody's bill," Mma Makutsi pronounced, and then continued, "but it's still important to get to it, Mma—to get to the truth behind all the…all the things that cover up the truth.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
I don't believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life.
~ David Duchovny
My life was one very long process of lying and lying again, to figure out how to cover those other lies.
~ Stephen Glass
There was word that a Secret Service man and a Dallas policeman were dead—so the plot must be widespread.
~ Jim Bishop
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~ Jim Marrs