Scandal Quotes - Page 12

• You know, I really miss sex scandals. They're generally colorful. They almost never mean anything over the long run. And while they're going on, the people who actually keep the government running are let alone to go about their business. Good old sex scandals.

  Gail Collins

  Running, Sex, Mean

  "The Sequester App". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. March 06, 2013.

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• Through Clinton and Monica, Clinton and Hillary, the scandal, the impeachment, Iraq, Bruce and Demi, Ellen and Anne, I have remained consistently and nauseatingly adorable. I have, in fact, been known to cause diabetes.

  Meg Ryan

  Iraq, Adorable, Causes

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• Damning, with bell, book and candle / Some sinner whose opinions are a scandal. / A rite permitting Satan to enslave him / Forever, and forbidding Christ to save him.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Book, Forever, Atheism

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.73, University of Georgia Press

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• It always takes a scandal to bring about reform.

  Sal Albanese

  Reform

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• by the general love of scandal and detraction in Dublin, one might reasonably imagine they were all to feed themselves through the holes which they had made in the characters of others.

  Laetitia Pilkington

  Character, Gossip, Dublin

  Laetitia Pilkington (1997). “Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington”, p.264, University of Georgia Press

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• The weirdest thing about Hillary Clinton's email 'scandal' is finding out some of our senators still don't use email.

  John Legend

  Email, Use, Clinton

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• Now my poor hometown is being castigated as the center of an IRS scandal. Humble workers at the Cincinnati office targeted Tea Party groups and other conservative organizations for special scrutiny when those groups applied for tax-exempt status. There's no conceivable excuse for that. It was deeply, deeply wrong.

  Gail Collins

  Party, Humble, Organization

  "The Taxman Cometh". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. May 15, 2013.

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• In the Enron scandal, whistleblower Sherron Watkins is now calling herself Enron Brokovitch. She testified Ken Lay was duped by the other executives. Oh, yeah. When is the last time you got duped and made $100 million?

  Jay Leno

  Enron Scandal, Calling, Whistleblowers

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• I'm worried about John Kerry, he's so confident now that he's already planning his White House sex scandal.

  David Letterman

  Sex, White, House

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• A lot of issues need to be swept under the carpet---and poof, along comes SARS. Whether or not its appearance was coordinated, up front, to coincide with these scandals and tragedies in Iraq, one thing is for sure. SARS has been used as a smokescreen to keep the global public diverted and in fear.

  Jon Rappoport

  Issues, Iraq, Tragedy

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• I see you've decided to take my advice after all, Richard." Lady Wendall's amused voice said from somewhere above and behind him. "Marrying your ward is *exactly* the sort of usual scandal I had in mind: I wonder it didn't occur to me before.

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Voice, Advice, Mind

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• I wrote a book called ‘Dancing The Dream’. It was more autobiographical than Moonwalk, which I did with Mrs. Onassis. It wasn’t full of gossip and scandal and all that trash that people write, so I don’t think people paid much attention to it, but it came from my heart. It was essays, thoughts and things that I’ve thought about while on tour

  Michael Jackson

  Dream, Book, Writing

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• The source known as Deep Throat provided a kind of road map through the scandal. His one consistent message was that the Watergate burglary was just the tip of the iceberg.

  Bob Woodward

  Tip Of The Iceberg, Maps, Messages

  "Readers recommend: songs about scandal" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2015.

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• In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war.

  John Yoo

  War, Light, Law

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• It was the old New York way...the way people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than "scenes", except those who gave rise to them.

  Edith Wharton

  New York, People, Disease

  The Age of Innocence ch. 33 (1920)

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• Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages

  Elias Canetti

  Machines, Hostage

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• You and me-we've whored together. We've fought together.And I still dunna understand how ye always seems to know where the money is hidden and the liquor is stored and the scandals are richest.' It's a gift.

  Christina Dodd

  Together, Liquor, Stills

  Christina Dodd (2008). “Into the Shadow: Darkness Chosen”, p.12, Penguin

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• These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that's a scandal when we have so many riches and resources to give to everyone. We all have to think about how we can become a little poorer.

  Pope Francis

  Thinking, Giving, World

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• If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia.

  Ron Fournier

  Mean, Victory, Faces

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• Pointing fingers, trying to catch each other in scandal does not bring honor to this House.

  Mark Foley

  House, Honor, Trying

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• They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.

  William Congreve

  Tea, Ancient, Gallery

  'The Double Dealer' (1694) act 1, sc. 1

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• The Enron scandal continues. The U.S. Senate has announced they are going to subpoena Ken Lay and make him testify. Apparently Lay received the subpoena this morning and then, out of habit, immediately shredded it.

  Conan O'Brien

  Morning, Enron Scandal, Habit

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• Yes, she was a scandal. Her brother simply didn’t know it. “I fell in the Serpentine today.” “Yes, well, that doesn’t usually happen to women in London. But it’s not so much of a scandal as it is a challenge.

  Sarah MacLean

  Brother, Challenges, London

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• Scandal has a thousand stringers; good news doesn't know the editor's phone number.

  William Raspberry

  Phones, Editors, Numbers

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• Bad Influence, which is an early movie of mine that I'm very fond of. It was an unhappy experience when that picture got released, because it coincided with that ridiculous Rob Lowe videotape scandal.

  Curtis Hanson

  Unhappy, Ridiculous, Influence

  Source: www.avclub.com

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