Quotes About Scandal

Southern California is the land of crazy crimes.

Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.

But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.

At least Barrera didn't stick the envelope into her panties.

The mob guys know it. They know that you bribe a politician only once. After that, you blackmail him.

The cartel has bought the White House. We've crossed the border now.

This could blow up in everybody's faces, this could be worse than Watergate, worse than Iran-Contra, worse than the little blue dress.

The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.

Ms. Davenport loves being in on student drama. She calls it having her finger on the pulse, but really, she's just a gossip. If you give her an opening, she'll burrow in for as much dirt as she can.

What are you thinking about so hard? Are you still stressing over your sex tape?" "It's not a sex tape if you're not having sex in it!" "Calm down, Lara Jean. I'm sure Peter's grandstanding did the trick and people will leave it alone. They'll be on to the next thing." "I hope you're right," I say. "Trust me, there'll be someone or something new to obsess over by next week.

Here the system is creating an industry around the drug issue when it does nothing to stop the corrupt military that moves the drugs, and the big banks that are all in cahoots with the President and the big shots in the Congress.

In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.

It's amazing to me that people have any interest in such a low-level sex scandal. If I were sleeping with a congressman, maybe, but I'm a nobody and the people I'm writing about are nobodies.

Mrs. Caillaux bought a gun, practiced with it at the gunsmith's shop, then went to the editor's office and fired six times. In her testimony, offering an unintended metaphor for what was soon to befall Europe, she said, "These pistols are terrible things. They go off by themselves." She

I think Rome at its worst had nothing on Chicago during those lurid days.

Pamela's husband, Randolph, newly minted member of Parliament, missed the birth. He was in London, in bed with the wife of an Austrian tenor, whose monocled image appeared on cigarette trading cards.

Everyone in L.A. knew that Spade was a big-league, serial pussy hound. L.A. County was a veritable body dump of his exes.

En ese momento, la sede de la FIFA pasó de ser el hogar del fútbol a convertirse en una tienda delictiva de lavado de dinero.

It was an era of expansion, but also of plunder. Bribery secured public contracts and the contractor then overcharged the state,

This is some next-level Lance Armstrong bionic shit going on.

My God, I'm here to help these people screw the President of the United States.

Tongues wag and stories circulate with electrifying efficiency.

They were telling me 'pills'! That was going to keep them happy – they could go to bed at night and sleep, knowing the Princess of Wales wasn't going to stab anyone.

Just as I opened the door from the boys' floor, I stumbled onto Mr. Farrow and that freakishly unhot witch from downstairs, Mrs. Singer. Together. Standing at the landing on the tenantless girls' floor. They were kissing, and it wasn't one of those innocent oh-hello-you-frosty-and-cadaverous-old-hag-from-downstairs-so-nice-to-see-you-this-afternoon pecks on the cheek, either.