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We're going to be very deliberate about this. We're not in the game of running a smear campaign against individuals, but we do believe accountability is a central issue.

Jason Kenney

You can?t change the mental smear that happens once you go through one of these things. I don?t believe it can ever be remedied.

Robert Krueger

Tom DeLay did nothing wrong, ... What this is, is a political smear campaign made by an organization, a political party, that is void of ideas.

Todd Tiahrt

We also had to contend with voter irregularities and electoral fraud, such as the ruling party's busing of supporters from one district to another. There were also blatant, politically motivated smear campaigns against some of our public representatives.

Musa Zondi

By historical definition, the Ellen Rometsch strategy is the use of FBI files by J. Edgar Hoover, ... Judicial Watch and others believe that this is the Clinton Administration's last line of defense to its scandals, to smear people, to scare people, to make sure than they can hold on to power.

Larry Klayman

Do not help the quick moneymakers who have delusions about taking possession of classics by smearing them with paint.

Frank Capra

The main threat to Democracy comes not from the extreme left but from the extreme right, which is able to buy huge sections of the press and radio, and wages a constant campaign to smear and discredit every progressive and humanitarian measure.

George Seldes

Led by a prosecutor with GOP ties, Republicans are doing their best to smear Governor Doyle, a man of utmost integrity and honesty who does not tolerate any ethical lapses in his administration.

Joe Wineke

It's a pretty significant day for us. It is a day of abstinence when we fast, pray and smear ourselves with burnt ash to remind us of our sinfulness, forgiveness and mortality. It sets the tone for the penitential season leading up to Easter.

Dan Andriacco

This is an attempt to smear a well-known group with allegations of involvement in espionage activity. They are preparing public opinion for a government move to close us down, which they can now do under the new law.

Lyudmila Alexeyeva

For the city to imply a connection is more of the same smear campaign, and to some extent sour grapes.

Daniel Perez

Look, I understand it's a good news story, but this has been one massive smear job from A to Z and it will have a surprise ending, a complete vindication of the defendants and an exposure of their persecutors.

Conrad Black

Because the politics of smear and this public and media and political obsession with sex has got some parallels in my circumstances.

Mark Latham

Although he may have wiped dog droppings on someone, Strong said he is the victim of a smear campaign.

Mike Deforest

When the cards are all stacked against you, what do you do? You smear the victim.

Jim O'neill

Newspapers across the state have referred to those ads as vile, loathsome, a smear.

Delacey Skinner

It's a little bit like having the Mad Hatter as a pen pal, ... a relentless smear campaign against our governor.

Brian E. Frosh

The allegations are completely untrue, and dredging up a photo from when I was 22 years old is pretty desperate stuff, ... This is merely part of an absurd smear campaign to divert attention from the issues that matter in this leadership contest.

George Osborne

The farmers crush the chilies they grow and mix them with old engine oil. They smear that paste onto a simple string fence around their field, protecting their other crops.

Nina Gibson

The real smear here, is against the Democrats who are held up as these evil people... Heaven forbid we should ask tough questions of a nominee.

Alan Colmes

He was trying to smear Mark Taylor and exploit a personal tragedy and we caught him red handed.

Rick Dent

I don't want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny - Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry, and Smear.

Margaret Chase Smith

I do recall that my father was the victim of a smear campaign by the publisher of the local newspaper. I knew it was wrong and unfair, but it didn't seem to really affect my father.

Marc Lampe

I was just watching them hit my dad, and all of a sudden, they started holding me and smearing me.

Michael Beck

The notes were floating, the ink smearing all over the page. I put them in plastic now.

Bill Stonebraker

However, after menopause and certainly into the 60s it would appear that doing a Pap smear every year isn't critical -- maybe once every two to three years.

Cecil Wilson