“My hands are clean, but not because I wasn't prepared to bloody them.”
Han Tzu aka Hot Soup
Ender's Game series, Shadow of the Giant (2005)
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“If I wasn't writing poems, I'd be washing my hands all the time.”

Clark, Speech to the Indian Chiefs at Cahokia (1778) http://www.kdla.ky.gov/resources/KYGRClark.htm

“Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.”
Source: Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome

Milner, Frank (ed): The Stuckists Punk Victorian, p. 21. National Museums Liverpool, 2005.

In Republican presidential debate, Orlando, Florida, 21 October 2007 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/21/us/politics/21debate-transcript.html?pagewanted=3
2000s, 2007

Ruthe Stein (April 25, 2006) "Matt Dillon dishes on 'Factotum's' private parts", San Francisco Chronicle, p. D1.

He waved his hand wildly into the black night. 'Out there, west. You wasn’t there, so you wouldn’t know. Now I was. Palestine Police from the end of the war till we packed up. That was the East. You was in India, and that’s not the East any more than this is. So you know nothing about it either. So you needn’t be talking.'
Fiction, Time for a Tiger (1956)