Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.
Quotes about whitewash (14 Quotes)
Our founders insisted on checks on presidential power to protect our nation's legacy of liberty. The Senate Intelligence Committee must transcend party politics and insist on facts, not rhetoric. The American people deserve the truth, not a whitewash by their elected representatives. Our security and liberty are far too important to be sacrificed in order to protect a president that has hidden from Congress and the public his decision that he need not follow the laws that protect the rights of ordinary Americans.
The Speaker is not listening to the American people they have unequivocally said they want an independent commission to find out the truth. They do not want a partisan whitewash of what went wrong in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina,
(The ruling is) a victory of history over hate, ... Today's decision definitely places Irving where he belongs -- not as a historian, but as a leading apologist for those who seek to whitewash the most heinous crime in human history.
There will be no whitewash in the White House.
There can be no whitewash at the White House.
The only self-incriminating investigation that is considered valid is a plea of 'guilty as charged'. Since that will not be said concerning the Katrina debacle, the proposed process becomes a 'whitewash' or at least a 'light gray wash' and will not be seen as credible.
a whitewash committee hearing.
They've taken so long and their initial forthright defense suggests it will be a whitewash. We would be very surprised if there was anything other than a slap on the wrist. If they were serious then they would have done more by now. It does not take two months to start a formal investigation.
Democrats contended that Republicans cannot be trusted to run an impartial investigation. After the flood comes the whitewash, ... The job of this Congress is not to run interference for the Bush administration.
This is the usual whitewash. This is really appalling. For years, they have given us all their reasons why an international trial will threaten American justice. And now it looks good to them.
This a whitewash. There's nothing in here which gives any information on what the coroner and pathologist did in this case.
After the flood comes the whitewash, ... The job of this Congress is not to run interference for the administration.
Our mother did not want them to take Ritchie's name and whitewash it and they didn't. She liked it.