“If someone claims the incident was pre-planned, I completely refute this. What happened was an accident. It is unfortunate.”

— Mahesh Sharma

On the 2015 Dadri mob lynching, as quoted in " Dadri lynching: Mob murder an accident, arrested youths too will get justice, says Mahesh Sharma http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/dadri-lynching-union-minister-mahesh-sharma-meets-victim-family-insists-it-was-accident/" The Indian Express (3 October 2015)

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Indian politician 1959

Philip B. Crosby (1926–2001) Quality guru

Philip B. Crosby (1995), Reflections on Quality.

“In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens you can bet it was planned that way.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States

There are no records of Roosevelt having made such a statement, and this is most likely a misquotation of the widely reported comment he made in a speech at the Citadel (23 October 1935):
: Yes, we are on our way back — not just by pure chance, my friends, not just by a turn of the wheel, of the cycle. We are coming back more soundly than ever before because we are planning it that way. Don't let anybody tell you differently.
Misattributed

“There were incidents and accidents
There were hints and allegations…”

Paul Simon (1941) American musician, songwriter and producer

You Can Call Me Al
Song lyrics, Graceland (1986)

“Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.”

Thornton Wilder book The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Source: The Bridge of San Luis Rey

“I don’t plan things. As a rule I prefer to see what happens.”

Saul Leiter (1923–2013) American photographer

Saul Leiter: The Quiet Iconoclast (2009)

“What I don't like from the president's administration is this sort of, 'I'll put my boot heel on the throat of BP.' I think that sounds really un-American in his criticism of business. I've heard nothing from BP about not paying for the spill. And I think it's part of this sort of blame-game society in the sense that it's always got to be someone's fault instead of the fact that sometimes accidents happen. I mean, we had a mining accident that was very tragic and I've met a lot of these miners and their families. They're very brave people to do a dangerous job. But then we come in and it's always someone's fault. Maybe sometimes accidents happen.”

Rand Paul (1963) American politician, ophthalmologist, and United States Senator from Kentucky

on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and 2010-05-05 explosion at Massey's Upper Big Branch mine
reference to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar telling CNN on 2010-05-02, "Our job basically is to keep the boot on the neck of British Petroleum."
2010s

“He (Salman) may not be media savvy, he may be involved in some unfortunate incidents, but Salman at heart is one of the nicest guys I know in the industry, and even outside it. He is constantly being misrepresented in the media and being made a target just because he happens to be a celebrity.”

Preity Zinta (1975) film actress

Quotes from Preity about other stars
Source: [apunkachoice.com, Preity on Salman, http://www.apunkachoice.com/scoop/bollywood/20061020-2.html, 16 November, 2006]