Dirty Business Quotes

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

Music as a business is a dirty thing.

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

Politics is an ugly and thankless role.

Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility, and the young should not only shun it, but by the most thorough culture relieve themselves from all temptation to indulge in it. It is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are country neighborhoods in which it rages like a pest. Churches are split in pieces by it. Neighbors are made enemies by it for life. In many persons it degenerates into a chronic disease, which is practically incurable. Let the young cure it while they may.

Politics is a dirty business, but if you do not do politics, politics will be done to you.

It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business.

The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan? This business must be stopped. It's a dirty business to produce such a horrible device.

[Wiretapping is] a dirty business…. [Espionage] has been employed by every tribe and state since the beginning of history.

I wouldn't depend on the Justice Department for investigative purposes, nor would I approach the Attorney General's office for information if I were you …. It is my conviction that the man would go to any lengths to protect himself and his friends—and make no mistake about it, the people we are after are friends of the Attorney General. Harry Daugherty has had a hand in every dirty piece of business which has come out of the Harding administration. There is every reason to believe that, at the very least, Daugherty is one of the men who knows the whole sordid story of the oil leases—and there is enough evidence to warrant the suspicion that he himself might have profited from them