Michael Finkel Quotes

When people in positions of trust mislead us - either recklessly, negligently or intentionally - that impacts the republic.

It is plain old-fashioned wrong when people lie and trick other people.

The biggest scandal I was ever involved in was - in high school, at a basketball game, I shot and scored for the other team.

In 2007, Michael Grimm, former Marine, former FBI agent, accountant and attorney, was poised for success as a small business owner. Instead, as alleged, Grimm made the choice to go from upholding the law to breaking it. In so doing, he turned his back on every oath he had ever taken.

The relationship between 'My Chemical Romance' and Michael Pedicone is over. He was caught red-handed stealing from the band and confessed to police after our show last night in Auburn, Washington. We are heartbroken and sick to our stomachs over this entire situation.

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.

While the meeting I participated in turned out to be a ruse, I made statements during the course of the meeting that are counter to NPR's values and also not reflective of my own beliefs. I offer my sincere apology to those I offended.

I cannot accept fraud.

No one will find me to have knowingly committed fraud.

If this be true, General Pinckney has kept them all for himself and cheated me out of my two.

Fraud will vitiate any, even the most solemn transactions; and any asserted title founded upon it, is utterly void.

They lied, they cheated, they stole, they had the power to do it and they did.

I am going to help show the American people that they too cannot trust him, that this is a man that does not live up to his promises, and this is a man who cheated students in the so-called Trump University.

I don't like talking about cheaters.

My whole life has been a lie.

John McCain... looks like a fraud to me.

My opinion is that he's a swindler and you're a sucker.

I have a lot of disrespect for people who cheat. I feel like if you're in a position in a relationship where you want to see other people, and the opportunity to cheat comes up, don't.

In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Spying among friends is never acceptable.

When I was knowingly misled but only learned that much later, that's really when I started to become disillusioned at the White House.

Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.

Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.