Scandals Quotations

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.

The problem was with Bill Clinton, the scandals and rumored scandals, the incubating ones and the dying ones never ended. Whatever moral compass the president was consulting was leading him in the wrong direction. His closets were full of skeletons just waiting to burst out.

I would say that during my lifetime, one of the worst political scandals in Sweden was absolutely what happened surrounding the affair of the submarines in Swedish waters in 1982, where there were supposed to be Russian submarines close to Stockholm. And the military of Sweden never got one up.

Ever since the infamous quiz show scandals of the 1950s, the feds had insisted that TV game shows be honest - or that at least they didn't cheat. So as a 'Dating Game' bachelor, I didn't know what I was going to be asked. The other bachelors and I were required to concoct our answers in real time.

Manufactured scandals prohibit public servants from doing the job they were elected or appointed to do.

Watching 'Scandal' is a fun and exciting guilty pleasure, which is how I imagine most real scandals start out.

We're going to reform Washington, ... After years of Republican scandals and abuses of power, it's a big task. But the American people are demanding change.

We're moving beyond that -- the market's almost immune to the scandals now.

There does seem to be a spate of scandals these days. It seems to be heavier than it's been for a while.

We shall study and obtain credible evidence against those mentioned in these scandals and in the absence of the attorney general moving on time to charge them, we shall bring private prosecution.

Liberals did well, and not only in the 'Michael Moore' precincts, but also in a lot of areas where their scandals should have hurt them more.

Many of the scandals sweeping over Capitol Hill are the product of loose ethics enforcement in Congress. No one is watching because the ethics committees too often act like lap dogs rather than watchdogs.

Many Nevadans have contacted me in the past several weeks to express their concerns over scandals that have plagued politicians from both political parties, from Washington, D.C., to Carson City. The voting public is concerned that there is not enough transparency in Nevada's political process.

Since the scandals have occurred people are looking for money managers who go the extra mile with corporate governance.

Nope, no sex scandals yet. But I am open to offers!

One of the monologues describes a 16-year-old girl's experience of rape by an older woman as salvation. In light of the sex scandals in the Catholic Church, it is not only insensitive but offensive for a Catholic institution to perform a play that presents rape as healing for the victims.

I don't think that Paul Martin is home-free at all, ... The list of scandals is growing ever larger.

Italy had one of the biggest corporate scandals of all time, America had the biggest corporate scandal of all time. So I think the idea of talking about and pointing a finger at corporate scandals is always going to be fair game in terms of subject matter.

It is an emerging economy, and as a result there will be scandals. What I think is important is that these scandals stress-test the system and tell us where the deficiencies are.

While the equity market and accounting issues and corporate scandals are weighing on the economy, it is still fundamentally sound. The recovery process hasn't been derailed. We still think the economy is going to grow at about a 3.5-percent pace in the second half -- fast enough to keep the Fed from easing, but not fast enough to cause them to tighten this year.

We can win because it is time for a change, time to move forward, time to get beyond the scandals and investigations and corruption.

We've had big scandals all across the world.

We don't have enough questions in question period, ... We have to pick and choose which scandals to bring up.

The people behind Goldenberg and Anglo Leasing scandals or land grabbing would be free to confess publicly and return whatever property they stole from Kenyans.

We worked through the government scandals and closed a few contracts in the fourth quarter of 2004.

The declines were largely due to lack of confidence. Worries over weak corporate governance, brokers' scandals and an equity oversupply weighed on the bourses.

With all the scandals and miscellaneous B.S. we've gone through the last few years it's just nice to have a steady rock like coach Willingham.

We cannot afford one more day in which the governor is preoccupied with these scandals at the expense of a focus on creating jobs, reforming education, and moving Ohio forward,

The United Nations' greatest fear is that average Americans will no longer tolerate these international scandals and demand that America withdraw from the international organization.

These scandals don't have very much impact on public opinion because opinion couldn't be much worse. They just reinforce what the public already believes.

Thanks to the Internet in general and social media in particular, the Chinese people now have a mechanism to hold authorities accountable for wrongdoing - at least sometimes - without any actual political or legal reforms having taken place. Major political power struggles and scandals are no longer kept within elite circles.

Scandals aren't over. Something shows up in March, around the 12th or the 18th. I see a man in Parliament with his head hung low, apologizing for something.

The mysteries and scandals of the Kremlin are nothing compared to the mysteries and scandals of the Bolshoi.

And there's a lust in man no charm can tame Of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame; On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly, While virtuous actions are but born and die

This is going to be one of the biggest scandals that has hit Washington in more than a decade.

This is going to be one of the biggest congressional scandals ever.

This in my view is too little in the light of the volume of the scandals. The scandals are bigger than can be resolved by the resignation of three people.

They are bowing out of the greatest ethics scandals we have ever seen.

There's a lot more attention being given to board leadership than there was a couple of years ago. We've seen with the corporate scandals and crisis in investor confidence an increased attention to the monitoring function of the board.

Accounting is a hot domain with the number of accounting majors up nationwide. I think the recent scandals have brought a new level of attention to the accounting profession as gatekeepers and custodians of social interest.

It is really freezing a governor's administration. It's very damaging. These scandals always are.

It's time to save the U.N. from its own scandals and mismanagement. It's time for U.N. Reform with teeth.

It makes sense there would be a letdown after impeachment. People are tired of scandals and want peace and quiet.

It's quite possible that of all the scandals and disturbances that the Times has gone through, this is the worst.

Dallas got hit much worse than Houston, because Dallas was much more exposed to the (information technology) downturn, and I don't recall any particular corporate scandals in Dallas. The scandal for Dallas was the high-tech bubble.

Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.

I hope that we can let go of the anger and the passions and some of the divisions that have consumed us in recent times, because the independent counsel law is not about sex scandals and spin doctors and mud throwing,

I don't think either one of them understands the consequences of the scandals that have hit Washington.

This is one of those things that strikes to the core of real people; it is something that they understand. There are some scandals that people do not understand. I don't know if people understood Iran-Contra. But this, involving losses in a fund for injured workers, goes to their pocketbooks.

You usually see guys make more money in endorsements as they get older even if their skills are diminishing. By then they're known quantities, not just to the public but to corporations. These corporations are very risk-averse, and they like to know that they can trust these guys. Athletes who have already had long careers without scandals are safer, whereas a 23-year-old is seen as more likely to get into trouble.

A lot has changed between 2004 and 2006. President Bush is not nearly as popular. There are scandals in Washington. The war in Iraq is lingering on. And there are other policy problems. So it may very well be that Republicans will look to social issues, and phenomena like the marriage amendments, as being especially important in an environment where they don't have as many things going for them.

The current scandals in Washington should remind us just how far we have strayed from the vision of limited government the Founders handed down to us. So long as government grows more powerful, money will find its way to Washington to attempt to influence it.

All the data security scandals this year have underscored how important it is for consumers to monitor their credit reports regularly to detect possible identity theft,