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I rather have an honest enemy than a dishonest Friend – Christen Kuikoua	added by anonymous 4 months ago
Be humble, be modest, but try not to be dishonest. – Ryan Pack	added by littleking 9 months ago
Pretending this isn’t a problem, that this isn’t current law, is dishonest, and it is a choice – a number of policymakers are making this choice. And it is a major financial risk to the retirement benefits of tens of millions of Americans. – Gordon Gray	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The evidence we have suggests that politicians aren’t by their nature any more dishonest than the typical person, however, when people go into politics, there’s pretty good evidence that the most successful politicians are the ones that are more willing to bend the truth. – Christian Hart	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Our experience has shown us that in the excitement of great popular elections, deciding the policy of the country, and its vast patronage, frauds will be committed, if a chance is given for them. If these frauds are allowed, the result is not only that the popular will may be defeated, and the result falsified, but that the worst side will prevail. The side which has the greater number of dishonest men will poll the most votes. The war cry, Vote early and vote often! and the familiar problem, how to cast the greatest number of votes with the smallest number of voters, indicate the direction in which the dangers lie. – Richard Henry Dana, Jr.	added by Normando 1 year ago
As with other ballot initiatives across the country, pro-abortion forces vastly outspent pro-life forces to drive dishonest messages to confuse the voters, in Montana, pro-abortion forces ranTV adscharacterizing the initiative as an ‘an extreme, harmful government intrusion into medical care,’ when all the initiative would do is provide the same level of care to an infant who survived an abortion as you would to an infant born early in pregnancy. If Montana voters knew the truth about what the initiative would actually do, it would have passed overwhelmingly. Our side must do a better job raising the resources needed to go toe-to-toe with the heavily funded abortion industry to arm voters with the truth. – Marjorie Dannenfelser	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Everyone's looking for the same story, they don't really care what Some Asian American academic activists have to say. It's always this : Asian kid, high test scores, mad Some Asian American academic activists didn't get in, i'm interested in how affirmative action is portrayed, because it's so very dishonest. – Harrison Chen	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Who knew about BBB, you know, previous weeks when I've been raising this issue for all this time and I'm very clearly on record about this. So someone has to be willfully ignorant of the facts or dishonest. – Pat Toomey	Found on CNN 1 year ago
That's so absurd and dishonest for anyone to suggest that it has anything to do with BBB, who knew about BBB, you know, previous weeks when I've been raising this issue for all this time and I'm very clearly on record about this. So someone has to be willfully ignorant of the facts or dishonest. – Pat Toomey	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I find it very dishonest of Brabrand to state that there is ‘no pedophilia’ and that the images are ‘not obscene’ when the images are objectively so, by any measure, and his counterpart in the next county agrees they are ‘inappropriate,’. – Stacy Langton	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
She chose fraud over business failure, she chose to be dishonest with investors and with patients. – Jeffrey Schenk	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It’s pathetic to see Terry McAuliffe recycle the same old empty promises, failed policies, and dishonest attacks that he’s been repeating for 12 years, now, McAuliffe wants to suppress and silence parents so his special interest allies can force their radical political agenda into classrooms and tell children what to think instead of teaching them how to think. Virginia parents are supporting Glenn Youngkin because he listens to them, respects them, and will restore excellence to our schools, raise teacher pay, and invest in the largest education budget in Virginia history. – Glenn Youngkin	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I have people asking me if I am considering changing my name, and I'm like,' no,' i never had the impulse to change it. It just felt dishonest to me. My parents didn't work and sacrifice so much to bring all of us here for me to deny the most important thing they gave to me, my name. – Abubakr Ali	Found on CNN 2 years ago
McAuliffe has been called out many times for making false claims that he made a record investment in education, this is his M.O., make a dishonest statement and hope no one checks the facts. – Macaulay Porter	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Andrew Cuomo and the Democrats in Albany have spent the past 4 years dismantling our criminal justice system, undermining public safety, and even threatening the well-being of alleged assailants, to now blame the increase in violence on anyone but themselves is absurd and dishonest. – Marc Molinaro	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
That guy who wrote it is a dishonest loser and guys like him are why guys like me have become so popular.I don’t have an agenda.He clearly does.I actually do things to help people. He just complains, points fingers and is a founding member of the no fun club. – Barstool Sports	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
75% to 90% of American trial lawyers are incompetent, dishonest, or both. – Warren E. Burger	added by tgold8888 2 years ago
The President Donald Trump administration has been nakedly partisan and dishonest about their administration of the Census. – Brian Schatz	Found on CNN 3 years ago
What assurance have we that our masters will or can keep the promise which induced us to sell ourselves? Let us not be deceived by phrases about 'Man taking charge of his own destiny'. All that can really happen is that some men will take charge of the destiny of the others. They will be simply men; none perfect; some greedy, cruel and dishonest. The more completely we are planned the more powerful they will be. Have we discovered some new reason why, this time, power should not corrupt as it has done before? – C. S. Lewis	added by Normando 3 years ago
The propensity to put Washington on a pedestal does us no favors, it keeps us removed from the man George Washington, because it's a dishonest reading of New York Life. – Alexis Coe	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I just see a pattern consistently from 2016 all the way through now, which is, he tries to project his biggest problems onto his opponents so he gives the media a false equivalence to try to muddy the water, part of the reason he was so obsessed with calling Hillary Clinton dishonest is because he is probably the most dishonest person to win the White House. – Robby Mook	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I surely committed errors but there is something that I will not accept, and that is that people think that I am dishonest or that I sought to con the French people. – Francois Fillon	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
He cheated on his wife, he was dishonest about that, he had multiple women he slept with at different points and he would say that those were bad choices, he's lost everything for those bad choices. Nobody is trying to claim that he is a saint and that he never did anything wrong... I don't believe Harvey is a rapist. – Donna Rotunno	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The IG report just came out and I was just briefed on The IG report and The IG report's a disgrace what's happened with respect to the things that were done to our country, the IG report should never again happen to another president. It is incredible, far worse than I would've ever thought possible and The IG report's an embarrassment to our country, The IG report's dishonest, The IG report's everything that a lot of people thought it would be, except far worse. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 4 years ago

I rather have an honest enemy than a dishonest Friend

– Christen Kuikoua

added by anonymous
4 months ago

Be humble, be modest, but try not to be dishonest.

– Ryan Pack

added by littleking
9 months ago

Pretending this isn’t a problem, that this isn’t current law, is dishonest, and it is a choice – a number of policymakers are making this choice. And it is a major financial risk to the retirement benefits of tens of millions of Americans.

– Gordon Gray

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The evidence we have suggests that politicians aren’t by their nature any more dishonest than the typical person, however, when people go into politics, there’s pretty good evidence that the most successful politicians are the ones that are more willing to bend the truth.

– Christian Hart

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our experience has shown us that in the excitement of great popular elections, deciding the policy of the country, and its vast patronage, frauds will be committed, if a chance is given for them. If these frauds are allowed, the result is not only that the popular will may be defeated, and the result falsified, but that the worst side will prevail. The side which has the greater number of dishonest men will poll the most votes. The war cry, Vote early and vote often! and the familiar problem, how to cast the greatest number of votes with the smallest number of voters, indicate the direction in which the dangers lie.

– Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

added by Normando
1 year ago

As with other ballot initiatives across the country, pro-abortion forces vastly outspent pro-life forces to drive dishonest messages to confuse the voters, in Montana, pro-abortion forces ranTV adscharacterizing the initiative as an ‘an extreme, harmful government intrusion into medical care,’ when all the initiative would do is provide the same level of care to an infant who survived an abortion as you would to an infant born early in pregnancy. If Montana voters knew the truth about what the initiative would actually do, it would have passed overwhelmingly. Our side must do a better job raising the resources needed to go toe-to-toe with the heavily funded abortion industry to arm voters with the truth.

– Marjorie Dannenfelser

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Everyone's looking for the same story, they don't really care what Some Asian American academic activists have to say. It's always this : Asian kid, high test scores, mad Some Asian American academic activists didn't get in, i'm interested in how affirmative action is portrayed, because it's so very dishonest.

– Harrison Chen

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Who knew about BBB, you know, previous weeks when I've been raising this issue for all this time and I'm very clearly on record about this. So someone has to be willfully ignorant of the facts or dishonest.

– Pat Toomey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That's so absurd and dishonest for anyone to suggest that it has anything to do with BBB, who knew about BBB, you know, previous weeks when I've been raising this issue for all this time and I'm very clearly on record about this. So someone has to be willfully ignorant of the facts or dishonest.

– Pat Toomey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I find it very dishonest of Brabrand to state that there is ‘no pedophilia’ and that the images are ‘not obscene’ when the images are objectively so, by any measure, and his counterpart in the next county agrees they are ‘inappropriate,’.

– Stacy Langton

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

She chose fraud over business failure, she chose to be dishonest with investors and with patients.

– Jeffrey Schenk

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It’s pathetic to see Terry McAuliffe recycle the same old empty promises, failed policies, and dishonest attacks that he’s been repeating for 12 years, now, McAuliffe wants to suppress and silence parents so his special interest allies can force their radical political agenda into classrooms and tell children what to think instead of teaching them how to think. Virginia parents are supporting Glenn Youngkin because he listens to them, respects them, and will restore excellence to our schools, raise teacher pay, and invest in the largest education budget in Virginia history.

– Glenn Youngkin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I have people asking me if I am considering changing my name, and I'm like,' no,' i never had the impulse to change it. It just felt dishonest to me. My parents didn't work and sacrifice so much to bring all of us here for me to deny the most important thing they gave to me, my name.

– Abubakr Ali

Found on CNN
2 years ago

McAuliffe has been called out many times for making false claims that he made a record investment in education, this is his M.O., make a dishonest statement and hope no one checks the facts.

– Macaulay Porter

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Andrew Cuomo and the Democrats in Albany have spent the past 4 years dismantling our criminal justice system, undermining public safety, and even threatening the well-being of alleged assailants, to now blame the increase in violence on anyone but themselves is absurd and dishonest.

– Marc Molinaro

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

That guy who wrote it is a dishonest loser and guys like him are why guys like me have become so popular.I don’t have an agenda.He clearly does.I actually do things to help people. He just complains, points fingers and is a founding member of the no fun club.

– Barstool Sports

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

75% to 90% of American trial lawyers are incompetent, dishonest, or both.

– Warren E. Burger

added by tgold8888
2 years ago

The President Donald Trump administration has been nakedly partisan and dishonest about their administration of the Census.

– Brian Schatz

Found on CNN
3 years ago

What assurance have we that our masters will or can keep the promise which induced us to sell ourselves? Let us not be deceived by phrases about 'Man taking charge of his own destiny'. All that can really happen is that some men will take charge of the destiny of the others. They will be simply men; none perfect; some greedy, cruel and dishonest. The more completely we are planned the more powerful they will be. Have we discovered some new reason why, this time, power should not corrupt as it has done before?

– C. S. Lewis

added by Normando
3 years ago

The propensity to put Washington on a pedestal does us no favors, it keeps us removed from the man George Washington, because it's a dishonest reading of New York Life.

– Alexis Coe

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I just see a pattern consistently from 2016 all the way through now, which is, he tries to project his biggest problems onto his opponents so he gives the media a false equivalence to try to muddy the water, part of the reason he was so obsessed with calling Hillary Clinton dishonest is because he is probably the most dishonest person to win the White House.

– Robby Mook

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I surely committed errors but there is something that I will not accept, and that is that people think that I am dishonest or that I sought to con the French people.

– Francois Fillon

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

He cheated on his wife, he was dishonest about that, he had multiple women he slept with at different points and he would say that those were bad choices, he's lost everything for those bad choices. Nobody is trying to claim that he is a saint and that he never did anything wrong... I don't believe Harvey is a rapist.

– Donna Rotunno

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The IG report just came out and I was just briefed on The IG report and The IG report's a disgrace what's happened with respect to the things that were done to our country, the IG report should never again happen to another president. It is incredible, far worse than I would've ever thought possible and The IG report's an embarrassment to our country, The IG report's dishonest, The IG report's everything that a lot of people thought it would be, except far worse.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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