Quotes About Plausible Deniability

#1. We use committees for all the ulterior purposes for which they might have been designed: diffusion of executive responsibility, plausible deniability, misdirection, providing the appearance of activity without the substance, and protecting the guilty.

Charles Stross

#2. The important thing is that we maintain plausible deniability.

Richard M. Nixon

#3. If it be not destiny, then surely there is plausible deniability, which in the parlance of politics is the same thing.

Christopher Moore

#4. No one talked about the questions, because talking ruined plausible deniability. Talking burst the bubble of innocence. Talking ended the happily ever after. These were the truths they believed. And they were lies. They should have talked while there was still something to say.

Courtney C. Stevens

#5. You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.

Walter Kirn

#6. The true purpose of the various directives, regulations, and pocket-sized codes of conduct handed out to troops was not to implement genuine safeguards for noncombatants, but to give the military a paper trail of plausible deniability.

Nick Turse

#7. In that little party there was not one who would desert another; yet we were of different countries, different colours, different races, different religions
and one of us was of a different world.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#8. There is no cowardice in removing yourself from a wildly unhealthy and unwinnable situation . . . You shouldn't feel like you have to play . . . you don't owe anyone anything. You don't have to be available to everyone. You can stop.

Scaachi Koul

#9. There is no gap as wide as the one between mediocrity and genius.

Rutvik Oza

#10. Without books, we might just melt into the airwaves and be just another set of blips.

John Updike

#11. The flaw is the thing we love.

Gail Caldwell

#12. If you are explaining, you are losing.

J. C. Watts

#13. Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your soul. And that's a fact.

Conor Oberst

#14. Mysterious thing, Time. Powerful, and when meddled with, dangerous.

J.K. Rowling