A Quote by Mike Quigley

I'm a longtime believer in the old adage that sunlight is the best disinfectant, particularly in politics.

Mike Quigley

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Mike Quigley
American - Politician
Born: October 17, 1958

Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

William O. Douglas

When you start hiding things away, that's when the darkness creeps up. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

Steve Kazee

When you start hiding things away, that’s when the darkness creeps up. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

Steve Kazee

Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and the public is entitled to know what the legal views of a Supreme Court candidate are.

Ayelet Shaked

There's that old journalism rule that sunshine is the great disinfectant - which is how reporters bust their way into meetings and such all the time. In sports, I really think winning is the great disinfectant.

J. R. Moehringer

Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge, which is democracy's great disinfectant and cure.

David K. Shipler

The old adage that polite conversation should not include talk of politics or religion is understandable because both subjects are so heavily laden with emotion that discussion can quickly turn to shouting. Blood is shed over politics, religion and the two in combination.

John C. Danforth

Citizens United said that transparency would be the disinfectant, but (c)(4)'s are warm, wet, moist incubators. There is no disinfectant.

Stephen Colbert

What modernity requires is not that you cease living according to your faith, but that you accept that others may differ and that therefore politics requires a form of discourse that is reasonable and accessible to believer and non-believer alike. This religious restraint in politics is critical to the maintenance of liberal democracy.

Andrew Sullivan

Sunshine is the best disinfectant

Louis D. Brandeis

It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.

George Washington

It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

Harold W. Dodds

come back believer in shade believer in silence and elegance believer in ferns believer in patience believer in the rain

W. S. Merwin

I'm very wary of fawning too much over heroes. There's an old adage that heroes are best kept at arm's length, and in a few instances in my life, that's been true.

W. Earl Brown

There's a writing adage that says, 'Write yourself into a corner.' My brother and I have always loved that adage.

Anthony Russo

I was an 18-year-old kid, and I was in the heart of things in Washington. My interest in American politics and, particularly, the Kennedys, began then.

Nigel Hamilton

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