Paul Gosar Quotes

Scandals are only increased by hushing them up.

When I write that I've known about something for a long time, that's not a boast. That's a confession. It's me acknowledging that I have withheld something important from the public.

I personally think that if you deny something or if you hide something you're inadvertently admitting it's wrong.

Wink and shut their apprehensions up.

It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.

It isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up.

A fault is fostered by concealment.

Truth is a very powerful political weapon against those who are trying to conceal it.

Americans can tolerate some secrecy, particularly when it is rooted in protection of the public's interests. But when the claims appear to hide wrongdoing, they begin to curdle.

People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent.

To err is human. To cover it up is weasel.

I'm only going to work now when I'm terrified.

I don't like people lying to me. I don't like people who don't return my calls. I don't like people who won't give me a straight answer. I don't like those kinds of people, and I've been vocal about it.

Oh it's clearly a cover up. I mean, I have no reluctance in saying that.

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.

The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wriggle and weasel out of one.

I don't like people who hide things.

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.

Any politician or campaigner trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the public won't get very far.

If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

And, believe me; they will do everything to cover this up.

I'm the only honest person in Washington.

If governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if leaders knew they could not rely on keeping the public in the dark about what they are doing, they would have a powerful incentive to behave better.

Hide nothing. It always gets found out.