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

Peter Utley
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Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

Oscar Wilde
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People love scandal. It seems now that's the only time the NHL gains anyone's attention. -Sean O'donnell
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He won't be as powerful as he once was. He will have been tainted by scandal.

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

Bob Fertik
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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
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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
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

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

Werner Franke
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Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather. -Anna Jameson
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We know that second terms have historically been marred by hubris and by scandal.

David R. Gergen
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Scandal, intrigue...a very prominent family.

Terry Hammond
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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
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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
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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
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Royal watchers in Britain are set on scandal. -David Flint
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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
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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
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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
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How could there ever be a touch of scandal connected with a governor who was so low-key and such a gentleman?

Tom Fitzpatrick
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This is a military and executive scandal.

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

Karol Beck
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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
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Any time you have anything that smacks of scandal, it hurts all of us. -Joel Hefley
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