Complicit Quotes

While a strong presence on our southern border is imperative, the border cannot be secured unless we enforce our internal laws and stop ignoring the open complicity of U.S. companies and foreign nations to promote illegal activities. - Elton Gallegly

What our case is saying is that these companies gave their knowing support to the apartheid regime, either through lending money or breaking sanctions. They were aiding and abetting it, and yet none of them have admitted their complicity. - Tristen Taylor

We think that the answer is love and care at the end of life and not eliminating patients. This turns (care) 180 degrees and asks doctors to be complicit in something we find morally offensive. - Dan Kennedy

We Southerners are complicit in defining our region by what is peculiar about it. - Phil Morrison

We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al Qaeda for 9/11 or any operational act against America. Period. - George Tenet

This is either a snub to Mbeki or an indication South Africa is complicit. - David Coltart

This is a piece of real evidence to back up the gut instinct many of us have that the denials of complicity we are hearing from E.U. member and candidate states cannot be relied upon. - Sarah Ludford

The United States does not torture. We've said this numerous times in numerous venues. We follow law. The report cites no evidence of any secret prisons or any evidence that the United States was complicit in torture. - Fred Jones

The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with disaster. - Susan Sontag

The pope has long promised to lead the church in coming to terms with some of its sins on the occasion of the Jubilee. For him, it's the culmination of many years of work, as a pontiff who lost a lot of his Jewish friends during the horror of the Holocaust and questioned the complicity of his own faith as a result. - David Van Biema