Scandal Quotes - Page 5

In today's regulatory environment, it's virtually impossible to violate rules ... but it's impossible for a violation to go undetected, certainly not for a considerable period of time.

Bernard Madoff

Today, Impossible, Environment

"15 Most Loathsome People of 2008". Article by Allan Uthman, Ian Murphy, www.alternet.org. January 30, 2009.

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I live in a zoo I run scandals with savages

Cam'ron

Running, Zoos, Savages

Song: Down And Out, Album: Purple Haze, 2004

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It looked incredibly credible!

Nicola Horlick

Corruption, Credible

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My aim was to make money for the bank. You lose track of the amounts involved when you are engaged in this kind of work.

Jerome Kerviel

Track, Kind, Making Money

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CALUMNUS, n. A graduate of the School for Scandal.

Ambrose Bierce

Graduation, School, Graduates

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.31, University of Georgia Press

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President Bush and his administration have tried to pull the wool over our eyes and distract the public from this possibly illegal domestic spying scandal.

Ellen Tauscher

Eye, President, Wool

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If you look at the British royal family and take away the scandals and the goofy stuff that's going on, people love to have this king to look up to - the royals are like celebrities.

Kevin J. Anderson

Kings, People, Looks

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Let's redefine scandal. Scandal is not who's dating who. Scandal is 1.2 million people living in tents in Haiti.

Olivia Wilde

People, Dating, Haiti

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What a scandal, if I die. Yeah, I'm gonna kill myself, get a little headline news.

Elton John

Suicide, News, Littles

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I've taken all the scandals back and made them part of my story and my music.

Demi Lovato

Taken, Stories, Made

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I've dodged bullets but there's no scandal in my life.

Hector Elizondo

Bullets

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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As an early-and-often chronicler of Chicago-on-the-Potomac, I am amazed at the stubborn and clingy persistence of President Barack Obama's snowblowers in the media. See no scandal, hear no scandal, speak no scandal.

Michelle Malkin

Persistence, Media, President

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As so often happens with Washington scandals, it isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up.

Tom Petri

People, Cover Ups, Trouble

"Reaction to CIA leak indictments", www.cnn.com. October 28, 2005.

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I think it'd be disgraceful if a chap wasn't allowed to have a bit of fun in Las Vegas. The real scandal would be if you went to Vegas and you didn't misbehave in some trivial way.

Boris Johnson

Fun, Real, Thinking

"Prince Harry dumped by model girlfriend after naked pictures emerge". www.mirror.co.uk. August 26, 2012.

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I am deeply Catholic and always will be, but I'm no longer a member of the church. I left in 2003 because of the sex abuse scandal.

Julianna Baggott

Sex, Catholic, Abuse

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Celebrity poverty, that's the hidden scandal in Blair's Britain. You can't help but worry for them. A girl I knew developed X-ray eyes for celebrity sorrows. She taught me to read the subtext of the down-market celebrity interview, she knew all the Hollywood codes, and followed the deep backgrounds.

Peter York

Girl, Eye, Worry

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A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

Pope Francis

Mother, Heart, Love Is

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It's me. I'm the thing that needs to be fixed. I'm the thing that needs to be handled. I'm the scandal. And the best way to deal with a scandal is to shut it down.

Olivia

Needs, Way, Fixed

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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.

Ginny Brown-Waite

America, Greatest Fear, Average

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Reagan survived the Iran-Contra scandal because the elements of it that were illegal (aiding anti-communist Nicaraguans) were popular and the things that were unpopular (arming the Iranians) were quite legal.

David Frum

War, Iran, Elements

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When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck.

Simon Newcomb

Prayer, Men, Knives

Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.

Moliere

Secret, Sin, Offence

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Sales of George Orwell's 1984 have skyrocketed. It's true. So the fallout from the (NSA spying) scandal is worse than we thought. It's forcing Americans to read.

Conan O'Brien

Nsa, Politics, Fallouts

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The thing I love so much about the UN, is that they're so obviously corrupt. It's not like the Oil-for-Food scandal was even hard to discover, it was almost a parody of corruption. The behavior of the delegates in New York is comically corrupt as well. The amazing thing is that there are still people who want to give the UN MORE power, and to become a real world government... Sigh

John Hamill

New York, Real, Oil

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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.

Louis J. Freeh

Skeletons, Waiting, Dying

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