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I myself have never covered up any related facts or lied about them.

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Shiori Yamao, policy research committee chief of the main opposition Democratic Party, referring to unusually large spending on gasoline in 2012 at a party chapter that she heads. Yamao blamed a former secretary for making inappropriate claims for gasoline costs. (Yomiuri Shimbun)

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I myself have never...

Don't you hate it when politicians use that "absolute" phrase? I recall a certain U.S. president saying saying something very similar, until the blue dress came out.

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Ah, sensei, you refer to "I have never impaled".

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Ah, sensei, you refer to "I have never impaled".

I think you meant "inhaled". The word you used has a completely different (and more disturbing) meaning.

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I myself have never covered up any related facts or lied about them.

You just did.

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