Scandal Quotes - Page 14

• It's a proprietary strategy. I can't go into it in great detail.

  Bernard Madoff

  Details, Corruption, Strategy

  "Books shed light on Bernard Madoff's shady activities" by Kerry Hannon, abcnews.go.com. September 17, 2009.

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• There's some kind of a thing where when she was Secretary of State she was using her own e-mail instead of the State Department, and I thought finally, a Clinton scandal the entire family can enjoy.

  David Letterman

  Mail, Kind, Clinton

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• Even the White House is weighing in on the deflate-gate scandal. Yesterday they encouraged Tom Brady to 'be mindful of the way he serves as a role model.' And then President Obama stuffed out his cigarette and went golfing at noon on a weekday.

  Jimmy Fallon

  White, Yesterday, Role Models

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• I believe you know Jesus said "a doctor doesn't come to the healthy, but the sick, and it's not the righteous but the sinners that I've come for," so I think that that's the scandal of God's love and grace that no one is beyond redemption, and we can see that all through scripture, you know.

  Shane Claiborne

  Jesus, Believe, Thinking

  Source: medium.com

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• It's important that you think of your relationship with the world and the way you can express that world and that you not be stopped if it scandalizes or embarrasses; but you must not look for scandal or for the avant-garde as a thing in itself.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Thinking, Important, Avant Garde

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• I generally think debates within a party should not be treated as a scandal. They should be treated as a sign of strength, to be honest.

  David Brooks

  Party, Thinking, Honest

  Source: www.npr.org

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• A great deal of what is being published by writers in the religious tradition is a scandal and is actually turning people away from the church. The liberal writers who are continually accommodating and whittling down the truth of the Gospel are responsible.

  C. S. Lewis

  Religious, People, Church

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• When [ Paul Johnson] got to me he was in trouble, because I'm an old-fashioned conservative: married when I was 21, stayed married, 3 kids, live in the suburbs, no scandals, so nothing to write about. So what he did is concoct one of the nuttiest claims I've ever seen.

  Noam Chomsky

  Writing, Kids, Conservative

  Source: thefifthcolumnnews.com

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• How do I transform and be believable as Krogstad in "A Doll's House" or Sir Peter Teazle in "A School for Scandal".

  Mahershala Ali

  School, House, Dolls

  "In 'Moonlight,' Actor Mahershala Ali Found Characters He Recognized". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 16, 2017.

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• I'm not sure [Donald] Trump has had that distinction between private and public life in his head. And so, I think there's likely to be an erosion of just that standard, that different standard, consciousness, and I think it's likely we'll see what we haven't seen in the last eight years and even the last 12 or 16 of private enrichment in office and scandals where people have to resign and things like that, because just once the standards go, behavior tends to go.

  David Brooks

  Thinking, Eight, Erosion

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I changed those things that were in direct - my direct control. I mean, I - look, I'm proud of the fact that, with two weeks to go, we're probably the first administration in modern history that hasn't had a major scandal in the White House.

  Barack Obama

  Mean, Two, White

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• It's time for me to give out an award to newly elected Majority Leader John Boehner. Mr. Boehner was elected just a few days ago to reform House Republicans, who are feeling the heat from lobbyist scandals. Well, CNN found out that he rents his two-bedroom apartment from a lobbyist who had clients who had interests in legislation that Boehner sponsored. And for that, Mr. Boehner, you've just won a pair of Stephen Colbert's big brass balls.

  Stephen Colbert

  Two, Cnn, Awards

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• I'll tell you what, [Hillary Clinton] is not making America safer by her actions and because as it relates to Benghazi, as it relates the e-mail scandal, as to the number of lies and obfuscation that she has engaged in throughout the course of this investigation and lack of transparency. And specifically, she's making America weaker by telegraphing and telling our enemies that we won't even put troops or boots over there. You don't know what's going to happen down the road

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Lying, America, Numbers

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Just as the superstar pastor model can have its problems once the superstar pastor gets old or has a scandal or something, the house church model... there's a reason that the house churches of the New Testament era grew up into a more institutional faith down the road.

  Ross Douthat

  House, Church, Eras

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• I think everybody is covering their [posteriors] with the Enron scandal and it was very convenient that Sept. 11 came along to deflect the fact that they should never have been in the White House in the first place. What happened in the election was completely corrupt.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Thinking, Enron Scandal, White

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• Shortridge High School was an elitist high school. In a way it was a scandal because you could go there no matter where you lived, if you could get there. It was for over-achievers. It was for people who were going to college. So we were very special and we were hated for being ritzy.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  School, College, People

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• State Department official accused of offering 'quid pro quo' in [Hillary] Clinton email scandal.

  Donald Trump

  Offering, Email, Clinton

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The 21st Century should be India's century but from 2004 to 2014 bad ideas and bad actions have affected the country adversely. Every day was a new bad day and there were new scandals. People were furious.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Bad Day, Ideas

  Source: www.deccanchronicle.com

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• Not one single scandal that Hillary Clinton has been accused of has ever, ever been proved.

  Thomas Roberts

  Clinton, Accused, Has Beens

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Anyone who's lived their life to the fullest extent has a scandal buried somewhere.

  Rob Lowe

  Buried

  "New Again: Rob Lowe". Interview with Mike Sager, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 7, 2016.

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• Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feelings of moral superiority while asking nothing in return. With contempt you don't need to right the wrong (as with anger) or flee the scene (as with fear or disgust). And the best of all, contempt is made to share. Stories about the moral failings of others are among the most common kinds of gossip, they are a stable of talk radio, and they offer a ready way for people to show that they share a common moral orientation.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Gossip, People, Giving

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.60, Basic Books

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• An Internet rumor claims that John Kerry had an affair with a young woman. When asked if this was similar to the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, a spokesman said 'Close, but no cigar.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Rumor, Internet, Cigar

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• It's incumbent on the President to entertain. Clinton did a better job of it - and was forgiven for the scandals, incidentally. Bush is entertaining us with what I call the Republican Super Bowl, which is played by the lower classes using live ammunition.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Jobs, Class, President

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. June 12, 2003.

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• I just think it's a great world to tell stories in, to tell cool stories: money, sex, fame, and scandal. Those are great subject matters to work with.

  James Frey

  Sex, Thinking, Stories

  "James Frey’s Own Personal Jesus". Interview with Nate Freeman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 3, 2010.

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• The President's science advisor, who is a former Harvard professor named Holdren, is involved in the email scandals and covering up the fact that data has been lost, the fact that contrary opinions to the global warming crowd has been squeezed out of scientific journals ... Now this is an international conspiracy.

  Jim Sensenbrenner

  Data, President, Email

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