Quotes About Scandal

There's a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame.

Hiro and Chuck grab the closest thing they can find to a corner table. Hiro buttonholes a waiter and surreptitiously orders a pitcher of Pub Special, mixed half and half with nonalcoholic beer. This way, Chuck ought to remain awake a little longer than he would otherwise. It doesn't take much to make him open up. He's like one of these old guys from a disgraced presidential administration, forced out by scandal, who devotes the rest of his life to finding people who will listen to him.

He's like one of these old guys from a disgraced presidential administration, forced out by scandal, who devotes the rest of his life to finding people who will listen to him.

GENERAL FRINK: Madame Chairwoman, if I may? ATKINSON: Proceed. FRINK: With all due respect, Senator Villesca, it's not like taxpayer money has never been used to hire prostitutes before. I know you're aware of that.

six degrees of Monica Lewinsky

More girls were killed in the last 50 years, precisely because they were girls, than men killed in all the wars in the 20th century. More girls are killed in this routine gendercide in any one decade than people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the 20th century. The equivalent of 5 jumbo jets worth of women die in labor each day... life time risk of maternal death is 1,000x higher in a poor country than in the west. That should be an international scandal.

Gossip is one thing, hurtful gossip is completely another, and even in high school we weren't THAT mean.

You know how gossip is. It's the toxic waste of small town

We often get impeachment inquiries or moves for impeachment inquiries on one president or another, and it doesn't go anywhere.

There is nothing more disgraceful for any sportsperson than to be accused of murky stuff like match-fixing or spot-fixing.

It's naive of anyone to think there is no corruption in football because it's everywhere.

Whenever any actress works with an actor again, more than once, people start linking their names.

My very first magazine cover was the National Enquirer.

In the early 1990s, Khodorkovsky made a fortune by attracting government deposits to his bank and speculating against the collapsing ruble. His bank, Menatep, was the largest holder of government funds, and much of the profit he made as a banker came at the government's expense.19 Khodorkovsky used his banking business to expand into other sectors, purchasing the Yukos oil company at a knock-down price in 1995 through a scandal-plagued privatization scheme.

Look, Madeline, Lady Gertrude said, everyone's gaping at you! I know. The future duchess stared straight ahead, her shoulders stiff, her back straight. Never had Remington seen a woman less comfortable with her own distinction. Never had he enjoyed the success of his own plan quite so much. The ton adored only one thing more than a romance, and that was a scandal. He had- and would- give them both. Maybe it's because of your hair, he murmured. Madeline shot him a glare.

The corporal was not having sex with the congressman in a minefield.

In the very recent past, we have seen the Church of Rome befouled by its complicity with the unpardonable sin of child rape, or, as it might be phrased in Latin form, no child's behind left.

The whole point about corruption in politics is that it can't be done, or done properly, without a bipartisan consensus.

One feels almost laughably heavy-footed in pointing out that Mrs. Clinton's prim little book, It Takes a Village, proposes sexual abstinence for the young, and that the president was earnestly seconding this very proposal while using an impressionable intern as the physical rather than moral equivalent of a blow-up doll.

An ideal scandal is the one that reveals to us what our leaders really think of us; the fools they take us to be and the ease with which they get away with things.

When priests go bad, they go very bad indeed, and commit crimes that would make the average sinner pale.

Heinous Fuckery, most foul!

They don't cover what to do with a dead hooker. That's a whole different program. Political science, I think.

In business, as in politics, the public is ever so tolerant of those who slime.