Plausible Deniability Quotes

What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, but only what is supported by hard evidence rigorously and skeptically examined. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

There are some things I don’t tell the President. It’s better if he doesn’t know.

I’d learned a long time ago that you can’t prove a negative. You can prove that you did something, but it’s the devil to prove you didn’t do something.

I'd rather wonder than get answers I couldn't live with.

I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, there's no way you can prove anything!

I think there must be safety in numbers. If you f - up enough times, they forget which one you really did. They start thinking, "Well, nobody can be that bad."

I believe in the dull lie - make your story boring enough and no one will question it.

The surest way to keep a secret is to make people believe they already know the answer.

It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.

It's nothing. A school project. My go-to answer for anything. Staying out late? School project. Need extra money? School project.

I never have been in Bernie Fine's hotel room in my life.

One thing you may be sure of, I was not a party to covering up anything.

He pivoted, gaze following me as I crossed to the shower and turned on the cold water, so it would drown out our conversation without steaming up the room. Great," he muttered."Now they're going to think we're showering together. Maybe we can just tell them we were washing off the crawl space dirt and trying to conserve water.

I have nothing to do with Russia. To the best of my knowledge no person that I deal with does.

If that comes up, I'll just confuse them.

It's no surprise that hackers working for North Korea, Iran's mullahs, Vladimir V. Putin in Russia, and the People's Liberation Army of China have all learned that the great advantage of cyberweapons is that they are the opposite of a nuke: hard to detect, easy to deny, and increasingly finely targeted.

I never seen no shootin'. I only know what I heard and what I read. I had no involvement.

When it comes to the Russia investigation, President Trump would be wise to review Scandal 101: Plausible deniability is your friend.

I want to make it clear that I honestly answered every question put to me during the so-called Iran-Contra hearings. But if they didn't ask me about something, I wasn't about to reveal things that would put other people in jeopardy.

There is simply no plausible construction of the known evidence that leaves out Novak either providing a proffer through his lawyer of what he would say if he testified or having testified directly.

To those who don't want the truth about Kennedy's assassination to become known, the very repetition of a charge lends it a certain credibility, since people have a tendency to believe that where there's smoke, there's fire.

How could I darling? He was never at the front.

I didn't say I was running, did I?

If the cops didn't see it, I didn't do it!

You can't accuse me of having said anything if I'm not there to say anything.