Smear Quotes

If bitter party name-calling turns people off then smear politics just destroys all credibility in the aims of politicians, the role of political parties and the political process itself.

When I begin, theoretically and practically I can smear anything I want on the canvas. Then there’s a condition I have to react to, by changing it or destroying it.

I invent by analogy. I thought, ‘It’s commonplace that you can mix colors, smear them together to get new emerging colors. Likewise, you can mix radio waves to get new frequencies.’ So, I wondered, ‘Why can’t you mix sound to get new sounds?’

I know politics is emotionally brutal; I’ve already had experience with the reality of smear campaigns, so I understand there will not be a path of roses laid before me.

The natural gas industry has worked long and hard to smear Josh Fox, the director of ‘Gasland,’ and has failed.

Do you know people on the Right who are tolerant of people who are for gay marriage and are pro-choice? I actually do, plenty of them. When there is a disagreement, I see way more people on the Right… more often willing to agree to disagree rather than to de-friend or to smear.

We shouldn’t have someone working in the Oval Office trying to discredit and smear a private individual who’s just speaking their mind about an important issue facing the country. That is not going to move our nation forward.

Being respected by people on both sides of the aisle is really important to me – even in an age when giving a hearing to ‘both sides‘ is considered a smear in some corners.

Liberal members of Congress and their media allies are furious with Attorney General William Barr because he blew up the Mueller report smear job before it was out of the box.

Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics.

You can’t smear acrylics, you know, it dries too fast.

My business affairs are entirely proper, and no amount of smear, rumour or innuendo will alter that fact.

I don’t particularly want to smear myself into a hillside.

I acknowledge the right of the authorities and the press to satisfy themselves as to whether I am the anthrax mailer. This does not, however, give them the right to smear me and gratuitously make a wasteland of my life in the process. I will not be railroaded.

It isn’t hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.

My theory on smear pieces is try and win ’em over.

Will they attack us? Yes. Will they smear our backgrounds and distort our records? Undoubtedly. Will they lie about us, harass our families, namecall to try to intimidate us? They will. There’s nothing safe about it. But is it worth it? Well, let me ask you. Is freedom worth it? Is America worth it?

Conservatives may worship Adam Smith‘s ‘invisible hand,’ but for Obama, the helping hand comes in large measure from the public, not the private sector. To call this ‘socialism‘ is to do violence to the word and to the concept. To call it ‘un-American‘ is a smear.

I would borrow my mom‘s red Borghese lipstick and smear it on like a clown!

Every morning, I take a deep breath and then go online to discover what new insult or smear has been thrown in my direction. Whether it’s tweets, blogposts or comment threads, the abuse is as relentless as it is vicious.

You don’t smear somebody as a racist when there is obviously nothing there.

Mainstream America, in the long run, will always stand for highly qualified, impartial judges and for a fair process and for senators who do their jobs and vote – not who unfairly smear good men like Judge Alito.

Looking back, Mr. Trump‘s exploitation of the term ‘fake news‘ to smear journalists was the single most consequential thing he did during the transition period. He built the scaffolding for his supporters to reject any and all information that wasn’t Trump-approved.

There is no need to smear my name or to defame my character for the sake of news.

President Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he’s offering is more of the same. That’s not good. Look at the economy. It’s stagnating. And so, what they’re now going to try and do is bring this campaign down to little things, distractions, distortions, smear, fear, anger, frustration.