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It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.

Richard Hofstadter
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Don't make the planned tariff hike a scapegoat for the companies managerial problems. They said they could not afford it (the hike), but actually it s because they are facing various internal problems.

Industry Minister Fahmi Idris
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Human rights is new for the military. They usually see human rights as a scapegoat, an instrument used by certain interests.

Indria Samego
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When I was in government it was routine for these CIO agents and their factional counterparts in government and ZANU PF politicians to abuse me as a scapegoat for anything they were unable to explain or defend.

Jonathan Moyo
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The city isn't going to be the scapegoat for why this program went away. The local option sales tax was sold to us with the understanding that this money would be shared with the city and we have yet to see that happen.

Dale Swanson
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It looks to me like Richmond will be known as scapegoat city.

Michael Morchower
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Now he sees the opposition is getting stronger, he's looking for a scapegoat ... This is a Chadian problem.

Abdullahi Abdel Karim
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I think he's being pushed out or made a scapegoat, ... That is, that the president feels he's got to have somebody to blame, and he's doing it indirectly by asking Tenet to leave. ... I don't think he would pull the plug on President Bush in the middle of an election cycle without having been asked by the president to do that.

Stansfield Turner
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The church hierarchy is attempting to scapegoat gay people for its own failure to address the sexual abuse of children and young people that it alone created and covered up. The evil in this is that they are trying to equate being gay with sex abuse, which is appalling.

Matt Foreman
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The real debate around this witch hunt isn't between us and the Vatican, it's between the Vatican and the truth. When the church makes gay men a scapegoat for pedophiles, it ignores one problem and creates another.

Joe Solmonese
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The RDR is tired of being the scapegoat for successive administrations when they are faced with crises of any sort.

Ali Keita
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He's felt from the start that he was the scapegoat. If he's going down, they're going down with him, and this is his moment. I think Andy will say whatever he has to to bring these two guys down with him.

Andrew Gordon
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She was made a scapegoat for a deficient child-placement system. Now she can get on with her life.

Jack Crawford
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[The Republican leadership is] trying to salvage its flagging fortunes by making the energy industry its scapegoat, ... nothing less than central planning of our economy.

Iain Murray
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I definitely won't say coach O'Brien was the reason why, ... That would make him a scapegoat like I was last year.

Chris Webber
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He has become a convenient scapegoat.

James Fisher
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When you lose, you always go looking for excuses, ... I'm the ideal scapegoat, but that doesn't bother me. It's not my problem. My conscience is clear.

Urs Meier
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Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

Ernest Bevin
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The fact is, the committee's allegations are baseless -- Mr. Sevan never took a penny, as he has said from the beginning. The IIC is and, since the beginning of its efforts, has been on a mission to scapegoat Mr. Sevan in a misguided attempt to spare the United Nations criticism and deflect attention away from the conduct of others.

Eric Lewis
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