Scandal Quotes - Page 8

• The SEC now is 3500 chickens, and we need to get some foxes in there.

  Harry Markopolos

  Needs, Foxes, Corruption

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• I don't know how I could have been more explicit. I gave them a roadmap and a flashlight, but they didn't go where I told them to go, they didn't look where I told them to look, they didn't tell the people I told them to call.

  Harry Markopolos

  People, Looks, Corruption

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• Surely I'm not the only person to ask the obvious question: How different, really, is Mr. Madoff's tale from the story of the investment industry as a whole?

  Paul Krugman

  Different, Stories, Corruption

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• All one great big lie.

  Bernard Madoff

  Lying, Corruption, Bigs

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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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• Corruption is a cancer that steals from the poor, eats away at governance and moral fibre and destroys trust.

  Robert Zoellick

  Cancer, Moral, Corruption

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• I've found that wherever there is one cockroach in plain sight, many more are lurking behind the corner out of view.

  Harry Markopolos

  Sight, Views, Cockroaches

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• A super-sized fraud of this magnitude was bound to happen given the lack of regulation of these off-shore entities.

  Harry Markopolos

  Regulation, Corruption, Given

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• I have ... spoken to the heads of various Wall Street equity derivatives trading desks and every single one of the senior managers I spoke with told me that Bernie Madoff was a fraud. Of course no one wants to take an undue career risk by sticking their head up ... The fewer people who know who wrote this report the better. I am worried about the personal safety of myself and my family.

  Harry Markopolos

  Senior, Wall, Careers

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• The business pages of American newspapers should not read like a scandal sheet.

  George W. Bush

  Pages, Corruption, Newspapers

  "The sins of the CEOs". "The Religion Report" with Stephen Crittenden, www.abc.net.au. August 7, 2002.

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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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• Despite the Brian Williams lying scandal, NBC News led in the ratings last week. Although I should note the figures were reported by Brian Williams.

  Conan O'Brien

  Lying, Nbc, News

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• For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise . The scandal of men is everlasting; even then does it survive when you would suppose it to be dead.

  Plautus

  Men, Enemy, Doe

  Titus Maccius Plautus (1852). “The Comedies of Plautus”, p.277

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• Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.

  Larry Flynt

  Trying, Get Involved, Involved

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• Longevity conquers scandal every time.

  Shelby Foote

  Time, Conquer, Longevity

  Shelby Foote (1992). “Jordan County: A Landscape in Narrative”, Vintage

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• Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

  Pope Francis

  Men, Focus, Risk

  "Pope Francis on gay marriage, unmarried mothers ... and journalists". www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2013.

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• In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Camouflage, Narrative

  "Cubes! The Horror!". nymag.com. April 1, 2012.

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• The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did you mistake eleven for ten? were you too late to dress? and did you sit up beyond the usual hour? If a novel produces these effects, it is good; if it does not -- story, language, love, scandal itself cannot save it. It is only meant to please; and it must do that or it does nothing.

  Sydney Smith

  Mistake, Writing, Dinner

  Sydney Smith (1848). “The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith: Three Volumes Complete in One”, p.343

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• Modern transcendental idealism, Emersonianism, for instance, also seems to let God evaporate into abstract Ideality. Not a deity in concreto, not a superhuman person, but the immanent divinity in things, the essentially spiritual structure of the universe, is the object of the transcendentalist cult. In that address of the graduating class at Divinity College in 1838 which made Emerson famous, the frank expression of this worship of mere abstract laws was what made the scandal of the performance.

  William James

  Letting Go, Spiritual, College

  "The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature". Book by William James, 1902.

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• Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy! Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!

  Marquis de Sade

  Heart, Unique, Smoking

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• Are you implying that shreds of my reputation remain intact?" Will demanded with mock horror. "Clearly I have been doing something wrong. Or not something wrong, as the case may be." He banged on the side of the carriage. "Thomas! We must away at once to the nearest brothel. I seek scandal and low companionship.

  Cassandra Clare

  May, Sides, Reputation

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• Most lives are not distinguished by great achievements. They are measured by an infinite number of small ones. Each time you do a kindness for someone or bring a smile to his face, it gives your life meaning. Never doubt your value, little friend. The world would be a dismal place without you in it. (tweaked version of a passage from Scandal in Spring)

  Lisa Kleypas

  Kindness, Spring, Numbers

  Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Scandal in Spring”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  People, Morality, Sin

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• These White House scandals are not going away anytime soon. People in Kenya are now saying he's 100 percent American. That's how bad it's gotten.

  Jay Leno

  White, People, House

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