Scandal Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• I am not surprised that the president of the United States called this a phony scandal. I'm not surprised Secretary Clinton asked, "What difference does it make?" I'm not even surprised that Jay Carney said Benghazi happened a long time ago. I'm just surprised at how many people bought it.

  Trey Gowdy

  Trust, Bad Ass, Usa

  "Gowdy: Why Does the Media Not Care About Benghazi?". www.realclearpolitics.com. May 18, 2014.

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• The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest. Yet it is largely a result of minimum wage laws. We regard the minimum wage law as one of the most, if not the most, anti-black laws on the statute books.

  Milton Friedman

  Teenager, Book, Social Unrest

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• The times talk to us of so much poverty in the world and this is a scandal. Poverty in the world is a scandal. In a world where there is so much wealth, so many resources to feed everyone, it is unfathomable that there are so many hungry children, that there are so many children without an education, so many poor persons. Poverty today is a cry.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Poverty, World

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• In my youth I hoped to do great things; now I shall be satisfied to get through without scandal.

  Walter Bagehot

  Funny, Youth, Great Things

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• At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my sleepless intriguing mind. I had the idea that there, among criminals, were people to fight: clever, vigorous, crafty fellows. Later I realized that it was good that I did not become one, for most police cases involve misery and wretchedness-not crimes and scandals.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Clever, Fighting, Ideas

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• The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery.

  Seymour Papert

  Teaching, Discovery, Benefits

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• If you want good behavior, don't pay on a commission basis. Our judges aren't paid so much a case. We keep them pretty well isolated with a fixed salary. Judges in this whole thing have come out pretty well - there have been relatively few scandals.

  Charlie Munger

  Judging, Salary, Want

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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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• Scandal is only human.

  Jerry Saltz

  Humanity, Humans

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• Scandals never stop an administration unless the media wants them to stop an administration, which means that no scandal is ever gonna stop Obama.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Media, Want

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• The UN Commission on Human Rights, whose membership in recent years has included countries - such as Libya and Sudan - which have deplorable human rights records, and the recent Oil-for-Food scandal, are just a few examples of why reform is so imperative.

  John Linder

  Country, Rights, Years

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• Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Race, Gossip, Lovers

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• English people have seen me get through scandals.

  George Michael

  People

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• Movies such as 'Citizen Kane' and 'The Front Page' portrayed an era when driven newspapermen would do anything to get a story. The U.K.'s rough-and-tumble Fleet Street remains something of a throwback to that era, as demonstrated by the recent phone-hacking scandal - which led to the demise of yet another century-old paper, the 'News of the World.'

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Phones, Stories, Demise

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• Another scandal for Hillary Clinton - they're saying she used a private email address when she was secretary of state, which means the government couldn't archive and preserve her emails. Then Obama said, 'Don't worry, we saw them. We see everyone's emails.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Mean, Government, Worry

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• Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Love, Past, Race

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• Not only is the Kyoto approach to global warming wrong-headed, the climate change establishment's suppression of dissent and criticism is little short of a scandal. The IPCC should be shut down.

  Nigel Lawson

  Kyoto, Criticism, Climate

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• Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feeling of moral superiority while asking nothing in return.

  Jonathan Haidt

  People, Giving, Feelings

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.60, Basic Books

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• We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.

  Elyn Saks

  Motivation, Inspiration, Jail

  "A tale of mental illness — from the inside". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June, 2012.

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• Matt Drudge's role in the Monica Lewinski scandal] strikes me as a new and graphic power of the Internet to influence mainstream journalism. And I suspect that over the next couple of years that impact will grow to the point where it will damage journalism's ability to do its job professionally, to check out information before publication, to be mindful of the necessity to publish and broadcast reliable, substantiated information.

  Marvin Kalb

  Jobs, Couple, Impact

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• If we don't take the necessary measures, famine will be the scandal of this century.

  Bruno Le Maire

  Century, Famine, Ifs

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• Big scandal on the new 'Survivor' series. The white, the black and the Hispanic teams were caught cheating off the Asian team.

  Jay Leno

  Cheating, Team, White

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• I saw a guy being really abusive to his girlfriend. She was asking people to help, but no one would. When he grabbed her, I tried to separate them, but he turned on me. I punched him and knocked him down. It wasn't a scandal; I was just doing what anybody should.

  Timothy Hutton

  Girlfriend, People, Guy

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• The plea agreement negotiated by Janet Reno's Justice Department with Nora, Gene and Trisha Lum is a hoax. It allows two key players in the campaign finance scandal to plead to lesser offenses and effectively concludes a serious investigation that, if taken to a conclusion, could have seriously affected the Clinton Administration's claim that it committed no illegalities in the campaign finance scandal. Nora Lum was a close confidant of Ron Brown and remains close to John Huang. Trisha Lum, her daughter, worked for Brown at the Commerce Department and worked on trade missions.

  Larry Klayman

  Daughter, Taken, Player

  "Two Democratic Fund-Raisers Charged In Campaign Money Probe" by Terry Freiden, www.cnn.com. May 21, 1997.

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