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You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford.That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this.
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Meg Whitman
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The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.
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Lynn Westmoreland
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The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
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Ida Wells
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This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it.
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Josiah Warren
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Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.
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Gerald Vann
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It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.
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Publilius Syrus
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Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual.
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William Sumner
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The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live.
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William Sumner
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We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
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Barbra Streisand
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There's always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you're a fraud after all!
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Ben Stiller
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It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose either. A man of business should always have his eyes open, but must often seem to have them shut.
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Philip Stanhope
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Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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Sophocles
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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Sophocles
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But if anyone supposes that there was no commercial fraud in the Middle Ages, let him study the commercial legislation of England for that period, and his mind will be satisfied, if he has a mind to be satisfied and not only a fancy to run away with him.
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Goldwin Smith
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For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.
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Charles Simmons
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A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
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George Santayana
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There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.
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Frederick Robertson
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Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it?
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David Riesman
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Fraud, robbery, and murder have characterized the English usurpation of the government of our country. Why, for the last fifty years we have been robbed in the matter of taxes of hundreds of millions.
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John Redmond
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Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood.
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John Redmond
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Author:
Edgar Poe
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Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture.
Author:
Charles Pickering
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Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.
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Phaedrus
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Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.
Author:
Linus Pauling
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Well, we want to make sure there's not securities fraud.
Author:
Don Nickles
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Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.
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Benito Mussolini
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Tens of billions of dollars could be saved in Medicare and Medicaid alone by eliminate fraud and improving patient care. Not only would this save money, but it will save lives.
Author:
Tim Murphy
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Prohibition was introduced as a fraud; it has been nursed as a fraud.
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Roger Mills
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War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
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John McCain
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But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers.
Author:
Armistead Maupin
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May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery.
Author:
Henry Lodge, Jr.
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Identity theft involving these cards is a growing form of white collar crime, facilitating illegal immigration, banking and accounting fraud, tax evasion, and other nefarious activities.
Author:
Ron Lewis
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No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.
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Philip Levine
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Bush the father did well in placing his sons as governors and did not forget to pass on the expertise in fraud from the leaders of the region to Florida to use it in critical moments.
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Osama Laden
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Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
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Willem Kooning
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There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud.
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Edward Kennedy
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We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that they shall not defeat us. We shall arm. We shall meet fraud and falsehood with defiance, and force with force, if need be.
Author:
Denis Kearney
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We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power.
Author:
Denis Kearney
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Unfortunately, the current format for this lottery program are subject to fraud and abuse and leave our nation exposed to those who may seek to do harm on American soil.
Author:
William Jenkins
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Thomas Hobbes
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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
Author:
Alan Greenspan
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It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots.
Author:
Virgil Goode
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I want to be clear. No company is too big to be prosecuted. We have zero tolerance for corporate fraud, but we also recognize the importance of avoiding collateral consequences whenever possible.
Author:
Alberto Gonzales
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Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
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Jean-Luc Godard
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It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush.
Author:
George Galloway
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Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.
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C. Forester
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Until we can fully grasp the extent of corruption and fraud involved in the administration of the Oil-for-Food program, and until the United Nations decides to cooperate in the investigation, no American taxpayer dollars should go to the United Nations.
Author:
John Ensign
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No one will find me to have knowingly committed fraud.
Author:
Bernard Ebbers
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Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.
Author:
Charles Curtis
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The first issue to be settled is whether socialism has a right to exist Are its allegations concerning the present system true? Is industry proceeding on a principle of fraud? I wish to test the power of recent economic theory to give an exact answer to this question.
Author:
John Clark
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It is irresponsible for this Congress to not investigate the President's lack of an exit strategy, and the fraud, waste, and abuse of U.S. tax dollars.
Author:
Russ Carnahan
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At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud.
Author:
David Cameron
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We have a system that allows us to manage a free and fair election, free of fraud, free of intimidation, and that's what we delivered on election day, and we're very very proud of it.
Author:
Kenneth Blackwell
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The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud.
Author:
Harry Blackmun
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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Otto Bismarck
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Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
Author:
Mikhail Bakunin
