Cover Ups Quotes

• It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.

  Howard Baker

  Events, Causes, Trouble

  62 Copy quote

• The cover-up, more than the initial wrongdoing, is what is most likely to bring you down.

  Madeleine Albright

  Initials, Wrongdoing

  Madeleine Albright (2001). “Madam Secretary”, Miramax Books

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's some things you can cover up. And there's some things you can't.

  Ray Lewis

  "Ray Lewis On Domestic Abuse In NFL: ‘Some Things You Can Cover Up.. Some Things You Can’t’" By Ryan Grenoble, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 22, 2014.

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  Fake Friends, Fake People, Truth

  70 Copy quote

• There's this old line the wise folks in Washington have that "it's not the crime, but the cover-up." But only fools believe that. It's always about the crime. The whole point of the cover-up is that a full revelation of the underlying crime is not survivable.

  Josh Marshall

  Wise, Believe, Fool

  "So Now We've Got". talkingpointsmemo.com. March 26, 2007.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up.

  John McCain

  Government, Media, Thank God

  23 Copy quote

• I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sympathy, Death, Condolences

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Outre-Mer - A Pilgrimage Beyond The Sea (Annotated Edition)”, p.8, Jazzybee Verlag

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

• As so often happens with Washington scandals, it isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up.

  Tom Petri

  People, Scandal, Trouble

  "Reaction to CIA leak indictments", www.cnn.com. October 28, 2005.

  45 Copy quote

  Show source

• The First Amendment rejects red tape, cover-up and double-speak.

  Roy Barnes

  Tape, Double Standard, Red

  20 Copy quote

• Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy-a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.

  Frederick Douglass

  Religious, Prayer, Greatness

  What to the Slave is the 4th of July?, delivered 4 July 1852

  53 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have the happy circumstance of either being accused of political grandstanding on the one hand or cover-ups on the other.

  Ben Chandler

  Being Happy, Hands, Political

  17 Copy quote

• Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.

  Bobby Darin

  Love, Insecurity, Fool

  36 Copy quote

• A fundamental lesson on being fired: Never lie about it. People will know what you're saying is a cover-up for how you really feel - embarrassed, discouraged, and afraid.

  Mika Brzezinski

  Lying, People, Fundamentals

  "Getting Fired And How It Teaches You To Be A Better Parent" by Mika Brzezinski, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal.

  Bob Woodward

  Interesting, Criminals, Literature

  70 Copy quote

• I don't necessarily believe in aliens coming to the States, and I don't buy into the government cover-up.

  Jeri Ryan

  Believe, Government, Aliens

  16 Copy quote

• They offered me one cover about 10 years ago, and I said, no, I can't do it. I'm happy to cover up now.

  Ursula Andress

  Years, Said, I Can

  16 Copy quote

• Bullies often act out by marshaling aggression to cover up for insecurity.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Bully, Insecurity

  8 Copy quote

• Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Pain, Addiction, Ends

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.152, New World Library

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• Because we have sought to cover up past evil, though it still persists, we have been powerless to check the new evil of today.Evil unchecked grows, Evil tolerated poisons the whole system. And because we have tolerated our past and present evils, international affairs are poisoned and law and justice have disappeared from them.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Past, Law, Evil

  Jawaharlal Nehru, M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, Bal Ram Nanda (1972). “Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Advisory Board: M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, and B. R. Nanda; General Editor: S. Gopal”

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are many ways to cover up our sin. We may justify or minimize it by blaming circumstances and others people. However, real repentance first admits sin as sin and takes full responsibility. True confession and repentance begins when blame shifting ends...Just as real repentance begins only where blame shifting ends, so it also begins where self-pity ends, and we start to turn from our sin out of love for God rather than mere self-interest.

  Timothy Keller

  Real, Responsibility, Self

  22 Copy quote

• If you cannot be at ease with yourself when alone, you will seek a relationship to cover up your unease. You can be sure that the unease will then reappear in some other form within the relationship, and you will probably hold your partner responsible for it.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Psychology, Ease

  Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.99, New World Library

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• Give people, including yourself, clear permission to make mistakes . . . and to fix the problems. Since nobody's perfect, mistakes should be allowed. Cover-ups shouldn't. Cover-ups create twice the trouble.

  Price Pritchett

  Mistake, People, Giving

  60 Copy quote

• It is a very trying task for deceitful people, always to have to cover up their lack of sincerity and to repair the breaking of their word.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  People, Trying, Tasks

  4 Copy quote

• Time will bring to light whatever is hidden it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.

  Horace

  Light, Shining, Literature

  "Epistles". Book by Horace, I. 6. 24, 20 BC.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• For myself I say deliberately, it is better to have a millstone tied round the neck and be thrown into the sea than to share the enterprises of those to whom the world has turned, and will turn, because they minister to its weaknesses and cover up the awful realities which it shudders to look at.

  Thomas Huxley

  Reality, Sea, Weakness

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1920). “Readings from Huxley”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source