• from a NYT article on Pakistan:
  

Politicians have shown remarkable chutzpah in rejecting the charges of dishonesty over meeting a parliamentary requirement of a bachelor’s degree.

“A degree is a degree,” said Nawab Aslam Raisani, the chief minister of Baluchistan Province and an ally of President Asif Ali Zardari. “Whether fake or genuine, it’s a degree. It makes no difference.”

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Even the federal minister of education, Sardar Aseff Ahmed Ali, played down the seriousness of falsified degrees, saying that “public representatives should not be sent back home merely on the basis of this small mistake.”