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Quotes About Scandal

Benghazi is not a scandal; Benghazi was a tragedy.
~ Alan Colmes
Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.
~ Laura Moser
Holder's Justice Department is not the shield of justice, it has become the shield for Obama's political transgressions.
~ Wayne LaPierre
Polanski is a great example of a person whose personal life clearly has been just fraught with scandal and transgression and criminal acts. And yet, in 'Rosemary's Baby,' I think he's made one of the crowning feminist statements in film.
~ Karyn Kusama
The shipbuilders felt they should come in on some of it, too. They built a lot of ships that made a lot of profit. More than $3,000,000,000 worth. Some to the ships were all right. But $635,000,000 worth of them were made of wood and wouldn't float! The seams opened up—and they sank. We paid for them, though. And somebody pocketed the profits.
~ Smedley D. Butler
Goodness me, someone's been rumour-mongering for all he's worth, eh?
~ Sophie Hannah
Her palace shimered with onyx, garnet, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue.
~ Stacy Schiff
An apparently good way to get more information about religious group would be through the media. In actual fact, it's probably the worst. Why? Because what makes hot news stories are things like controversy, opposing views, harm, blood, sex, big names, big money, scandal, ect.
~ Stan Koehler
Corruption should be investigated. I wont be First!
~ State Brian Kemp
No one had seen anything of Urk since he had gone galloping out into the night carrying Meriam, the hired girl. It was generally assumed that he had drowned her and then himself. Who cared, anyway?
~ Stella Gibbons
Coward! Liar! Libertine! Who were you with last night? Moll at the mill or Violet at the vicarage? Or Ivy, perhaps, at the ironmongery?
~ Stella Gibbons
Since I am a man, my heart is three or four times less sensitive, because I have three or four times as much power of reason and experience of the world -- a thing which you women call hard-heartedness. As a man, I can take refuge in having mistresses. The more of them I have, and the greater the scandal, the more I acquire reputation and brilliance in society.
~ Stendhal
Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.
~ Bob Woodward
Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.
~ Sherwood Smith, Crown Duel
The best calumnies are spiced with truth.
~ George R. R. Martin
A 'penchant for telling the truth' can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor's wife.
~ Sydney J. Harris
Bill Clinton is a liar, a perverted kind of a guy anyway, and he is always stroking black folks rather than telling them the truth.
~ Tucker Carlson
where there's government subsidy, there is always corruption.
~ Michael Connelly
the most likely place that elected politicians ran afoul of the law was in the area of money.
~ Michael Connelly
Headless Body in Topless Bar.
~ Michael Connelly
Trance:Formation of America,) has also been buried by the mainstream media, although they have had little option but to at least run one story that tells us just how vast this network is. The headline was Massive Pedophile Ring Busted; 230 Kids Saved. It was about an Internet pedophile ring with up to 70,000 members. It was one of those subjects the legacy media simply could not avoid, and yet there is no serious follow-through.
~ Michael Knight
The U.S. financial markets had always been either corrupt or about to be corrupted.
~ Michael Lewis
If mere scandal could have destroyed the big Wall Street investment banks, they would have vanished long ago. This woman wasn't saying that Wall Street bankers were corrupt. She was saying that they were stupid.
~ Michael Lewis