Quotes About Scandal

It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.

Hollywood is a strange place if you're in trouble. Everybody thinks it's contagious.

The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.

If people are going to be cooking the books, you're in trouble.

Had Roosevelt been caught, we would have been in a lot of trouble. It would have been very embarrassing.

Some of the immediate causes of Jack Abramoff's troubles were some Indian elections that went bad for him.

We may never really know if 2004 Democratic presidential nominee and Senator John Kerry was President Obama's original choice to be Secretary of State or if he settled on Kerry after his first pick, Susan Rice, was forced out by her troublesome career and misleading statements on the Benghazi terrorist attack.

People just love rumors. They're always saying things that aren't true.

Donald Trump handles these nitwit reporters with a new and most disgraceful form of bribery.

Trump apologized for nothing, including the horrible tape, right? No apology.

With Bill Clinton, his lawyers always wanted him to say nothing about the Lewinsky scandal. Defendant Clinton had the right to remain silent. But President Clinton had a completely different need - political survival. That meant, in the end, that he needed to trumpet his supposed innocence and talk publicly to the American people.

What Clinton did with Lewinsky was despicable but was no threat to the nation. That he lied about it repeatedly and to the public is a reason for us to cease to trust him and for him to resign.

Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.

Let them say what they say. The truth is, I did not engage in corruption.

Let me tell you what the truth is... I have learned one thing in life: there is no such thing as bad press. There is not. That's a fundamental truth. The more bad things said about you, the more power they give to you.

Newspapers and magazines didn't want pictures of musicians behaving badly back then. Now, because of the Internet, that's all the media wants.

People want to hear the dirt. But this is not really anything I want to talk about.

Hollywood wants press, any kind of press.

Some members of Congress now are complaining they are underpaid. They want to propose a pay raise. You can't blame them. A lot of them took a big income hit when Enron folded.

The congressman sends out a tremendous subpoena, they want to see the e-mails, and they delete the e-mails. I can't think of anything, in terms of we're talking about, much more serious than that.

Now it seems like people want to do damage to young celebrities. They want to find them doing bad things. They encourage them.

The celebrity world can be so ugly. Everyone seems to have slept with everyone else and it's some sort of strange weird cycle. I don't want to get into that.

The Queen's Consort?' 'Yes. I once robbed him.' 'Indeed! And what did you take?' 'His virginity.