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Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us. -- Dan Quayle
Early in my career I was accused of being overconfident and even cocky, but I really was confident that I had done the training and didn't see any other reason to say otherwise. -- Alberto Salazar
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. -- Jonathan Swift
To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved. -- Paul McCartney
There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my office is to defend him, to discuss the accusation point by point, as I think this is a normal step in a democracy. -- Jacques Verges
When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accused of being a bit of a spitfire, so in that way, I absolutely live up to the stereotype. The red hair suits my personality. I was a terrible blonde! -- Amy Adams
Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak anything of that, whereof I am accused and condemned to die. -- Anne Boleyn
I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit. -- Mel Brooks
One thing I never want to be accused of is not working. -- Don Shula
Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them. -- Marya Mannes
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man. -- Johnnie Cochran
I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it. -- Clifford Geertz
When I was in college I was accused of being a goody two-shoes. But every goody two-shoes has a bad side. -- Elizabeth Banks
It's not fair that the accused is not protected from adverse publicity whilst the accuser is guaranteed anonymity, whatever the verdict. -- Jonathan King
For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation. -- Fritz Todt
People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning. -- Clare Short
I became chairman of the inmates committee. Got into a lot of trouble. Was accused of fomenting a riot. Was accused of plotting to kill the warden. -- Clifford Irving
Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don't ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides. -- Gwen Ifill
Oh lovers! be careful in those dangerous first days! once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal. -- Milan Kundera
The last thing I would have ever expected to happen to me in my life would be that, in fact, I would be accused of doing something wrong and maybe even something criminal. -- Kenneth Lay
It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality. -- Richard M. Nixon
When we traded the results of our fantasies, it seemed to us-and rightly-that we had proceeded by unwarranted associations, by shortcuts so extraordinary that, if anyone had accused us of really believing them, we would have been ashamed. -- Umberto Eco
That goes against what I believe morally. That's adultery, and if I'm accused of that, no, that's not right. I have two kids who see that and remember that and judge me. It didn't happen, and it's not to be reported that way. -- Nicole Kidman
I don't think anyone's ever accused me of too much self-love. -- Meghan Daum
One of the things I've never been accused of is not caring about people. -- Joe Biden
Anyone can be falsely accused of a crime. Everyone accused of a crime deserves a fair trial. -- John Garamendi
I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal. -- Marianne Faithfull
I accused a woman of doing something behind my back when I knew that she hadn't, just to see if she loved me. -- Tyrese Gibson
It is rather hard to be accused of shiftlessness and idleness when the accuser closes the avenue of labour and industrial pursuits to us. -- George H. White
I'm often accused of saying some pretty rotten things about my mother-in-law. But quite honestly, she's only got one major fault - it's called breathing. -- Les Dawson
I think the adverb is a much-maligned part of speech. It's always accused of being oppressive, even tyrannical, when in fact it's so supple and sly. -- Eleanor Catton
I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests' books. -- Dick Cavett
Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education. -- Angelina Grimke
In 1975, when my students were kidnapped by rebels, I was accused of hiding instead of trying to save them, and of not giving enough money for their ransom. I wasn't believed. -- Jane Goodall
My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems. -- Pope Francis
I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference. Opinion often consists of a kind of criticism. But criticism can come out of love. -- Robert Frank
Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963, the World War II veteran had been fired as a truck driver for a bakery, after one of his supervisors accused him of harassment. -- Brendan I. Koerner
I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet when I even remotely hint at the fact that we are not a favorite people I am accused of stirring up strife and setting barriers between the two sects. -- Emma Lazarus
Sometimes I think I should have chosen a line of work where it was just me alone in the room, with the sun coming in, and God, insofar as he or she exists, smiling down upon me. Then I would have never been accused of being a tyrant, other than towards myself. -- Charlie Trotter
Either we need to redefine what probable cause means and say that police are not subject to it, or we arrest officers right away just as we would with any other person accused of committing a crime. Either we write new laws or enforce existing ones; we cannot have it both ways. -- Al Sharpton
I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take little things. And, I mean, I can hardly write 10 words before I start to make things up. I start to invent, because that's what I want to do. I'm running away to an invented place. -- Lorrie Moore
Traditionally, duos get accused of lots of things. -- Daryl Hall
I have been accused of never saying no. -- William Shatner
Nobody likes to be accused of a virtue. -- Patricia Wentworth
My goal is to be accused of being strident. -- Susan Faludi
I've been accused of darkness by my inner light. -- Alison Hawthorne Deming
No one has ever accused me of being ambitious. -- Burt Shavitz
Thomas was sick of being accused of knowing things. -- James Dashner
I may be accused or rashness, but not sluggishness. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Never make a defense or apology before you are accused. -- Charles I of England
Being accused of enthusiasm is something I'll never live down. -- Sargent Shriver
I've been accused of almost every crime you can imagine. -- Richard Ramirez
I can be accused of trying to be commercial sometimes. -- Dolly Parton
I've been accused of trying too hard to rescue people -- Kim Edwards
I've been accused of being very vain about my apathy. -- Bret Easton Ellis
I've been accused of being aloof. I'm not. I'm just wary. -- Paul Newman
I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true. -- Ian Hislop
Fluency in English is something that I'm often not accused of. -- George H. W. Bush
If you cannot be accused of exclusivity, you are not discipling. -- Howard G. Hendricks
I am not really ever accused of being shy or meek. -- Marisol Nichols
I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises. -- John F. Kennedy
A man divorcing would never be accused of choosing career over children. -- Jennifer Aniston
I have been accused of sleeping with people, I hadn't met yet. -- Christopher Titus
I don't know which is worse: to be wrongfully accused or mistakenly understood. -- Jeanette Winterson
My driving, I've been accused of not being the best, most safest driver. -- Matt Dillon
You know Moms has been accused of liking young men, and I'm guilty. -- Moms Mabley
Women should not be allowed on juries where the accused is a stud. -- Rush Limbaugh
I've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America. -- Rand Paul
Somebody accused us of hiring him and putting him there. He was a classic. -- George W. Bush
I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War. -- Al Capone
You're going to be accused of every high crime and low misdemeanor there is. -- Willie Brown
I am being accused of all this plastic surgery, which is absolutely not true. -- Nicollette Sheridan
I've been accused of lacking compassion. But that just shows I'm not without compassion. -- Vince Lombardi
State Department official accused of offering 'quid pro quo' in [Hillary] Clinton email scandal. -- Donald Trump
No fury more righteous than that of a sinner accused of the wrong sin. -- Don Paterson
If you maintain a consistent political position long enough, you'll eventually be accused of treason. -- Mort Sahl
I've been accused of my publicist of being too confessional... it's probably my Celtic upbringing. -- Pierce Brosnan
I never did any of things I was accused of. It was a total fabrication. -- Kurt Busch
You're a cynic," Urgit accused. Silk shook his head. "No, Your Majesty. I'm a realist. -- David Eddings
When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies. -- Glenn Greenwald
I can only say I wish I had slept with everyone I am accused of. -- Rita Mae Brown
I have been accused of making people laugh, maybe when it's not appropriate, during scenes. -- Jeremy Sumpter
I was accused of insulting the president, insulting Islam, insulting - spreading rumors, disturbing the peace. -- Bassem Youssef
Not one single scandal that Hillary Clinton has been accused of has ever, ever been proved. -- Thomas Roberts
Rick Perry has now accused Mitt Romney of hiring illegal aliens to work on his hair. -- David Letterman
If you are accused of being a Christian, there should be enough evidence to convict you. -- Joyce Meyer
I have been accused of denying consciousness but I am not conscious of having done so. -- Willard Van Orman Quine
One is either judge or accused. The judge sits, the accused stands. Live on your feet. -- Jean Cocteau
Hour after hour, they shouted at me, accused me, insulted me and members of my family. -- Sam Sheppard
I'm accused of cleverness as if it were a sin. She is merely clever, they say. -- Jennifer Stone
I don't think I've ever been accused of being faddish. I'm more Marks & Spencer than Ted Baker. -- David Miliband
I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor. -- Man Ray
I've often been accused of spending more time and energy criticizing my fellow Democrats than criticizing Republicans. -- Mickey Kaus
Shame brings no advantage in misfortunes, for silence (of the accused) is the ally of the speaker. -- Sophocles
Douglas Carswell accused all political parties of "deliberately cultivating the impression" that there would be a referendum. -- Douglas Carswell
I've been accused of being a minimalist writer. I don't like a lot of verbiage in there. -- Kathy Reichs
Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error. -- James Harvey Robinson
I'm sick of being accused of gold-digging. It just so happens I get turned on by liver spots. -- Anna Nicole Smith
I was always accused of being cold and unfeeling. It was because I was intimidated about touching people. -- David Bowie
Every man of any education would rather be called a rascal, than accused of deficiency in the graces. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith. -- Mahatma Gandhi
But I've always been accused of being a bit tight with money, so it hasn't particularly changed my lifestyle. -- John Deacon
I've often been accused by critics of being myself on-screen. But being oneself is more difficult than you'd suppose. -- Cary Grant
Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places. -- William Shenstone
I've never sexually harassed anyone, and yes, I was falsely accused while I was at the National Restaurant Association. -- Herman Cain
I've been accused of not really paying attention to a sentence unless my name comes up in it twice. -- Matthew Perry
I usually am accused of having a crystal ball into which I can gaze and look into the future. -- Gerald Seymour
I'm accused of having no morality, which is a fair assessment, because my morality is whatever the system allows -- Peter Woodcock
I've always been, with acting, very hesitant to get myself into situations where I would be accused of nepotism. -- Bryce Dallas Howard
We Californians are constantly accused of not having seasons, but we do. We have fire, flood, mud, and drought. -- Phyllis Diller
Someone who knew me well once accused me of being unromantic. And that's probably true: I don't trust romance. -- Jamaica Kincaid
In a democratic country, when a man is accused, he's accused from a document issued by the public attorney. -- Jacques Verges
It seems odd that we continue to worry about the reputations of men who are accused of sexual wrong-doings. -- Jessica Valenti
I couldn't add my talent, which is prodigious, to a defense of someone even accused of hurting a child. -- Lynne Stewart
I started writing serious books so late because I knew Id be accused of riding on my fathers coattails. -- Thomas Steinbeck
If you start pandering to young people, you're going to get accused of simply giving people what they want. -- Brian Williams
I started writing serious books so late because I knew I'd be accused of riding on my father's coattails. -- Thomas Steinbeck
Jews have been circumcising their boys for thousands of years, and suddenly we are accused of tormenting our children. -- Charlotte Knobloch
I like to be human and not lose myself in becoming a mannequin, which people in showbiz are accused of. -- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

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