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It's all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.

David Brock

The shaming is an ordinance of last resort. We treat it with that kind of respect. It's the 800-pound gorilla sitting in the garage that we let out only when we have to.

Todd Weiler

Our fear is we're going to get in and find nothing, that this whole thing is a sham.

Andrew Rowell

This is sham therapy. It has absolutely no effect on cancer cells. And tragically, some consumers lost a lot more than $15,000. They lost time.

Howard Beales

This is not a sham, not a game. This is the real stuff.

Marion Barry

Children are a wonderful gift . . . They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

Bishop Desmond Tutu

Certification is more than an affront to Mexico and to other countries. It is a sham that should be denounced and canceled.

Vincente Fox

It is a pure sham. It is sponsored and promoted by those who want to take away a woman's right to choose.

Kate Michelman

The hearing today was a sham. These officers were supposed to be afforded their rights to due process, but these disciplinary letters were written before they even started the hearing.

Frank Desalvo

[While the plaintiffs argue that the effort to solicit public input on the plan several years ago was] a sham, ... there was a lengthy process where public comment was taken, and it was taken seriously.

Julie Benson

Our society has a really bad problem of shaming people into silence when they've been sexually assaulted.

Ashley Taylor

The Legislative Audit Advisory (Commission) is a sham. The Legislature basically audits itself and the citizens of Pennsylvania do not have a complete and independent account of where all the money goes.

Gene Stilp

Our clients compete with the institutions themselves and the NCAA to promote Division 1 basketball, and they should be able to compete freely and fairly. It's clear this came about because of money, it's a commercial restriction, and everything else is a sham.

Bill Markovits

Kerry's sham economic indicator says that our economy was better under Jimmy Carter than under Ronald Reagan, a deception few Ohioans are likely to believe.

Steve Schmidt

That's a real problem area for us lawyers, ... because depending on how important it is for a company to get rid of someone, they can go through a whole sham of pretending to restructure a company to justify a termination.

James Johnston

The Republican leadership today demonstrated a blatant abuse of power in subverting House rules and a blatant disregard for the needs of the American people by passing this sham energy bill.

Bernard Sanders

I would be going until I went over the bounds of reality and was then caught up in a profound wish to be dead without having to go through the shaming defeat of suicide.

Joshua Logan

The whole thing is a sham. At the end of nine years all these people are going to thank us and go home?

Ira Mehlman

If you think it's a sham divorce, investigate it.

Rick Halprin

The previous bill was a sham, and as a result, we have a lot of citizens breaking the law. My intent with this bill is to make sure Hoosiers who want to safely practice the discharge of fireworks can do that.

Rep. David Frizzell

I'm not about to vote for something that is a sham. This bill backed off from any real enforcement at all. You don't have enforcement, you don't have a bill, and let's not fool the public.

Rep. David Schultheis

This sham compromise agreement fails to address the primary substantive concern raised by millions of Americans, as well as civil liberties, privacy and business organizations and lawmakers from both sides of the aisle and in both chambers.

Caroline Fredrickson

The indictment states that a joint venture was created and that this joint venture was in fact a sham.

Patrick Fitzgerald

There has to be some effort to give everyone an equal chance. And they cannot make it a sham.

James Peters