Pernicious Quotes

What we're hearing now is some politicians contradicting their own statements and making a play for political advantage in the middle of a war, ... The saddest part is that our people in uniform have been subjected to these cynical and pernicious falsehoods day in and day out. - Dick Cheney

These arrests are good news, but the government still has a long way to go in reducing this terrorist threat. When the FBI lists a particular group or groups as the nation's number one domestic terrorist threat, we are clearly dealing with something far more serious and far more pernicious than small groups of misguided pranksters. - Sterling Burnett

There is a pernicious influence grabbing hold of our children... These boys spoke of a particular video game, and a character in that video game. That should chill us all. - John McCain

There are flaws in the way politics is reported in this country today and we should do something about it... Radio and television coverage of politics doesn't see its role as a mission to explain, but to destroy, in a pernicious culture in which journalists pit themselves against politicians. - Tim Allen

The saddest part is that our people in uniform have been subjected to these cynical and pernicious falsehoods day in and day out. - Dick Cheney

The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do? - Ernestine Rose

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent. - Edward Dahlberg

State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should be overcome. - Noam Chomsky