Tom Petri quotes

Tom Petri quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“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

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

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“There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.”
“Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.”
“Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.”
“People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.”
“Witches is being sold as an account of the Belvoir scandals, but in truth, Tracy Borman has written a thorough and beautifully researched social history of the early 1600s, taking in everything from folk medicine to James I's sex life.”

Source : "Witches: A Tale of Sorcery, Scandal and Seduction by Tracy Borman - review" by Bella Bathurst, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2013.
“It's a proprietary strategy. I can't go into it in great detail.”

Source : "Books shed light on Bernard Madoff's shady activities" by Kerry Hannon, abcnews.go.com. September 17, 2009.
“Are you implying that shreds of my reputation remain intact?" Will demanded with mock horror. "Clearly I have been doing something wrong. Or not something wrong, as the case may be." He banged on the side of the carriage. "Thomas! We must away at once to the nearest brothel. I seek scandal and low companionship.”
“All belief is a cover-up for insecurity”
“Time will bring to light whatever is hidden it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.”
“We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.”

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