We never search for scandal, but we use it if it cries out to excess.

Peter Utley

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

Oscar Wilde

People love scandal. It seems now that's the only time the NHL gains anyone's attention.

Sean O'donnell

He won't be as powerful as he once was. He will have been tainted by scandal.

Richard Semiatin

It is a scandal in our minds that four years after 9/11, we have not yet set aside radio spectrum to insure that police, firefighters and emergency medical technicians can communicate reliably during any kind of attack or any kind of major disaster.

Thomas H. Kean

At best, it's a distraction; at worst, it's damaging. It will feed the mistaken notion that [the abuse scandal] is about the behavior of priests and not the behavior of bishops. Gay seminarians didn't hire and transfer and cover for child-molesting priests. It was bishops who did that.

David Clohessy

The wiretapping really changed things. I think we're one moderate-level scandal away from a large outcry for impeachment.

Bob Fertik

I've decided not to talk about the athletes and their involvement in the BALCO scandal. In most cases these athletes are good people, who came from good families and they've already suffered greatly.

Victor Conte

That's absolutely correct. The district is traditionally a Republican district and it would take something unusual to shift them out of that column. A scandal-ridden congressman is the major hope for Lampson.

Harvey Kronberg

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Henry Fielding

When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive scandal.

Saint Ambrose

The current sleaze scandal is potentially very, very damaging indeed for the government, because the real serious allegations are not now about individual MPs [members of Parliament] -- they're about the conduct of the government...

Rodney Barker

This scandal has the potential to have a huge effect on K Street for decades. It will not only further shape people's opinions about lobbying but could also lead to reform.

Alex Knott

This is worse than in the GDR and more brutal than the BALCO scandal.

Werner Franke

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

Anna Jameson

We know that second terms have historically been marred by hubris and by scandal.

David R. Gergen

Scandal, intrigue...a very prominent family.

Terry Hammond

What bothers people the most about corruption is not the fouling of the process but the impact on real things — energy prices, the Iraq war and Medicare reform. Those are 'facts' that upset people the most. The corruption scandal is all about energy, Iraq, and the prescription drug mess — the dominant issues for the public.

James Carville

I think everybody is covering their posteriors with the Enron scandal and it was very convenient that Sept. 11 came along to deflect the fact that they should never have been in the White House in the first place. What happened in the election was completely corrupt.

Sandra Bernhard

The sexual abuse of children by priests is an especially grave and repugnant evil, ... It is a scandal which has evoked entirely justified outrage. The sexual abuse of children by priests is totally in conflict with the church's mission and with Christ's compassion and care for the young.

Sean Brady

Royal watchers in Britain are set on scandal.

David Flint

This whole scandal is incredible given the scope of collusion that has to be involved. Even if it's a minor error or data was exaggerated to get the research to market, it's still likely that this will turn out to be not just a bad apple, but a poisoned apple.

Glenn Mcgee

However, I'm disappointed that he isn't trying to find out how this scandal was allowed to happen, ... I think we need a thorough, broad and independent investigation so that we can restore baseball's credibility.

Henry A. Waxman

Bush is smart. I don't think that Bush will ever be impeached, 'cause unlike Clinton, Reagan, or even his father, George W. is immune from scandal. Because, if George W. testifies that he had no idea what was going on, wouldn't you believe him?

Jay Leno

How could there ever be a touch of scandal connected with a governor who was so low-key and such a gentleman?

Tom Fitzpatrick

This is a military and executive scandal.

Mark Rosenbaum

Boeing is taking this whole corporate governance thing very seriously, ... They're proving to their prime customer -- the government -- that they have really taken this [scandal] in the most serious way possible by firing the CFO and the CEO resigning.

Nick Fothergill

This is not a doping scandal, because I have never taken drugs and I never will.

Karol Beck

There's always going to be some type of scandal. It's just the nature of people. When you have so much at stake, people are going to use anything in their power to try to win. That's what this is all about.

Tony Fabrizio

Any time you have anything that smacks of scandal, it hurts all of us.

Joel Hefley

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

Phyllis Mcginley

When this is all over, this will be bigger than any (government scandal) in the last 50 years, both in the amount of people involved and the breadth to it. It will include high-ranking members of Congress and executive branch officials.

Stan Brand

The promotion of the Defense Agency to ministry status has been a issue for a long time. Following the scandal we must first make a new start at the Defense Agency and win public understanding.

Fukushiro Nukaga

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

Ambrose Bierce

This is a scandal and a big scar on the image of Germany.

Sara Bloomfield

In case there is any misunderstanding the DA would like to point out how this latest scandal involves the ANCYL.

Ian Davidson

The market tends to skim profits. Important people may be involved in the scandal and some skeletons may fall out of their closets, so before the dust settles the market should not rise much.

Celso Cenise

[And finally, from the department of] Be Careful What You Say on TV Because When You're Caught in a Massive Accounting Scandal They'll Dredge Up the Tape, ... I think that overall investor confidence is increasing every day.

Richard Scrushy

[Cunningham] will have the fake drug scandal hung around his neck in the fall, as well as the institutional discrimination that goes on in excluding minorities from juries.

Dan Wyde

It is a downright disgrace. Russia is the only country that has reacted to the caricature scandal in such a manner.

Igor Yakovenko

The leadership of both houses of Congress are now operating under a cloud of scandal, impropriety, and the possibility of illegality.

Marty Meehan

In the vast majority of races around the country, there is no question who is going to win. Absent an indictment or scandal or $1 million in the bank, it's awfully difficult to unseat an incumbent.

Larry Makinson

We look forward to this partnership, to get to the bottom of, to resolve this scandal.

Bernard Parks

It seemed almost impossible that he would leave that clinic alive, ... But with Diego you never know if within 15 minutes some enormous scandal will appear with catastrophic results.

Carlos Gardel

The market is scared with the embezzlement scandal. Volume was ridiculously small. If it continues like that tomorrow, the market may tumble.

Marcos Basaglia

Impunity in the killing of journalists remains the intolerable scandal of our times that can no longer be ignored by the international community.

Aidan White

I'm not sure we will ever have the privilege of voting on a nominee who is more intelligent than John Roberts, ... His integrity is beyond reproach as well. There's been no hint of any scandal.

Gordon Smith

He's still going to be in the news. His name is still going to be present, keeping ethics and scandal alive.

Linda Fowler

This is a big event. With all that's going in sports these days -- the lacrosse scandal, steroids and gambling -- we seek to have this be a positive influence.

Randy Shepherd

This has long ceased to be just a scandal about sex abuse. It's a scandal about abuse of power and trust, and a breech of faith with people.

Tom Roberts

Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.

Robert Cecil

Public investors used to accuse listed firms of cheating and manipulating in a scandal. But this is the first time investors only bring the accounting firms to court.

Tu Yong

You see a big scandal like Gary and think it's everywhere, it's rampant. It's not here in Bedford, not here in Mitchell, and I want to clarify that right now.

Jamie Harris

The more there is scandal and corruption in Washington, the better it is for McCain ... so he's at a high point right now.

Chuck Todd

It's rare that we get blindsided this way. In this era of Sarbanes-Oxley, governance is a front-burner issue. I just hope that the scandal doesn't become more widespread.

Scott Black

EXCOMMUNICATION, n. This 'excommunication' is a word In speech ecclesiastical oft heard, And means the damning, with bell, book and candle, Some sinner whose opinions are a scandal -- A rite permitting Satan to enslave him Forever, and forbidding Christ to save him. Gat Huckle.

Ambrose Bierce

Anytime you have anything that even smacks of scandal, I think it hurts all of us.

Joel Hefley

I understand that the House has individuals that are not going to pass any DGIF bills this year based on the scandal.

Sen. Steve Newman

Sovereignty is still an issue really important for Quebec. More than ever, especially with what happened with the sponsorship scandal.

David Page

The Nam Cam scandal is the mother of all corruption scandals.

Carlyle Thayer

Athletes are under the microscope, and it's a risk for advertisers to spend millions on someone who could get embroiled in scandal.

Bob Dorfman

Scandal is merely the compassionate allowance which the gay make to the humdrum. Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.

Hector Hugh Munro

Voters believe Lula when he said he didn't know about the corruption. What people had to know about the scandal is already out there and the probe isn't bringing any new facts out.

Cristiano Noronha

It's kind of like a low-grade fever. It's not like people are running around saying, 'Oh, my goodness, the former governor is on trial.' We all know that. We've been living with this scandal for seven years now.

Cindi Canary

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

Why not look instead for evidence of cowardice, secrecy, and dishonesty -- the traits displayed by so many bishops which magnified the crisis into a public scandal?

Francis Debernardo

It was a game of chicken at this point. The husband had entered his guilty plea. He knew the government didn't want to prosecute her because it would require them to show their hand. That would hurt them in their case against the big fish they're hoping to convict in the overarching scandal.

Orin Snyder

They're acting like the target of a scandal, .

Glenn Reynolds

Everybody gets religion after a scandal, at least for a while. There are a lot of ethics rules in the House and Senate. The problem is that there either aren't enough rules or the enforcement has been insufficient.

Jan Baran

We're going through a phase in history where the only thing that can stop poker from being the most popular form of gambling (slots excepted) is a big scandal.

Howard Schwartz

A scandal like this can have huge repercussions. This could lead to a new day on K Street.

Roberta Baskin

It's not only justice, it's poetic justice. The corruption scandal broke the back of his supporters.

Peter Kornbluh

Would be a scandal and a disgrace.

Sidney Blumenthal

We want police to clarify the facts behind the scandal so it will not happen again.

Kazuo Kitagawa

When the U.N. found itself being attacked for scandal and irresponsibility, one way to establish responsibility was to stand up to this institutional bias against Israel.

Abraham H. Foxman

Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too?

Arundhati Roy

She was, for all her lifelong love affair with motion pictures, a reporter first. She would skewer her best friend on the greasy spit of scandal if circumstances warranted it.

Paul O'neil

I think it's been a scandal to a certain degree so far, but whether it will end up being a full-blown one, I don't think so. And I don't think it should be.

Dick Button

[Moreover, retired athletes are more likely to steer clear of scandal.] They don't do stupid things for the most part, ... What has been the biggest problem area for the endorsement business lately is people you thought were upstanding citizens doing something stupid.

Paul Swangard

While there's no excuse for this scandal, it is no surprise that Boston, a seat of academic, political and cultural liberalism in America, lies at the center of the storm.

Rick Santorum

I think there is still quite a level of public anger with the government over this scandal.

Jay Hill

[But sooner or later, in a hard-bitten capital consumed in scandal, war and competition with rising powers like China, might the royal family ever be considered irrelevant and thus dropped from the dinner list?] That could happen, ... But I hope not in my lifetime. I was born dreaming of monarchies. I want to die that way.

Letitia Baldrige

I think the MSI scandal will keep Edgar out of the race. You want to talk about that? Believe me, we'll talk all about that.

Mike Jacobs

One thing I congratulate everyone on is the great explosion which has occurred in Washington's Black House and the very important scandal which has gripped leaders of America.

Ayatollah Khomeini

There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

George Farquhar

There is still some risk of new twists in the scandal so no one wants to keep positions for the weekend.

Celso Cenise

The scandal helps people become aware of (skating). And once they're aware of it, they're hooked.

Dick Button

It is clear that Bob Taft and his friends throughout state government are so caught up in this scandal that they are no longer paying attention the very real challenges facing Ohioans.

Chris Redfern

This is the scandal that is probably bigger than the other ones.

Joe Monahan

An indictment is just the first step in the ever-evolving scandal involving Abramoff and the GOP Leadership. Now, Rep. Ney has some explaining to do. Given that Rep. Ney knew enough about SunCruz, Adam Kidan and Gus Boulis to insert comments about them in the Congressional Record, the House ethics committee should find out what else Rep. Ney knew about Abramoff's illegal activities.

Melanie Sloan

Beijing should authorize a full and impartial investigation into the involvement of local authorities in the blood scandal and hold those responsible accountable.

Brad Adams

There's a lot of hype regarding how much the blogosphere has grown, and it has, and a lot of it is legitimate blogs with real content. But there's a scandal under the surface.

Mike Graves

The scandal isn't greed in the nonprofit sector. The scandal is under-investment in our own organizations. We're not ready to respond to the uncertainties out there.

Paul Light

The quality of the institution was getting better. The scandal will set it back. This is the tragedy.

Dr. Norman Edelman

The corruption at the UN didn't begin with the Oil for Food scandal and it certainly doesn't end there. The United Nations is nothing more than bureaucracy piled atop waste, wrapped in fraud, covered with abuse -- all of it funded by American taxpayers who foot 22 percent of UN dues -- more than any other nation. We also pour billions of dollars more into the coffers of its related agencies.

Oliver North

Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.

Benjamin Rush

He was able to put them on the trail of the truth to find out just exactly what was going on in this scandal.

Robert Dallek

It was a scandal. The truth is he (the referee) had his mind set against us - this was a desired elimination.

Francesco Totti

The states who prevented a force being deployed are an international scandal... an international disgrace, ... How can I tell them the Security Council doesn't see... doesn't listen... doesn't care.

Emma Bonino

Tonya and Nancy was the first completely insane scandal that took over the country.

Elizabeth Searle

That was a huge scandal, ... quite the glamour girl, and [Reynolds] was pigtails and gingham shorts.

Elayne Rapping

We're facing a very tragic situation. Our Holy Father wishes to speak with us about [the scandal], and we're anxious to hear what he has to say.

Edward Egan