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In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war.
Author:
John Yoo
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Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men.
Author:
William Wycherley
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The source known as Deep Throat provided a kind of road map through the scandal. His one consistent message was that the Watergate burglary was just the tip of the iceberg.
Author:
Bob Woodward
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Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.
Author:
Bob Woodward
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Absent scandal, a federal judge can serve for decades on the bench, underscoring the importance of appointing judges who have a proper understanding of their constitutional role.
Author:
Paul Weyrich
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The United Nations is a mess, riddled with scandals. In fact, the U.N. itself is a scandal.
Author:
Ginny Waite
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We never search for scandal, but we use it if it cries out to excess.
Author:
Peter Utley
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Let's not overlook, though, what we do know about the campaign finance scandal, and the fact the Chinese were involved in our presidential campaign and our congressional campaigns.
Author:
Fred Thompson
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You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.
Author:
Elizabeth Taylor
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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.
Author:
Ellen Tauscher
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I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal.
Author:
George Stevens
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Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films.
Author:
Douglas Sirk
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The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal.
Author:
Pierre Salinger
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Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
Author:
Benjamin Rush
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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?
Author:
Arundhati Roy
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I hope there's a tinge of disgrace about me. Hopefully, there's one good scandal left in me yet.
Author:
Diana Rigg
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This anniversary serves to help remind the American people that, in the wake of one of the greatest political scandals and misuse of power in our history as a nation, scandal produced important reforms that served this nation well for two decades.
Author:
Elliot Richardson
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I also had to work through the violation of my date rape, my unhealthy relationships with men, my anger toward the people involved in the scandal, and those who exploited me afterwards.
Author:
Donna Rice
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A month after the scandal broke, I tried to go back to work at the pharmaceutical company after a leave of absence. But because of all the publicity and resulting pressure and stress, I finally resigned.
Author:
Donna Rice
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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.
Author:
Tom Petri
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It isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up.
Author:
Tom Petri
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In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.
Author:
John Osborne
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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.
Author:
Simon Newcomb
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It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
Author:
Moliere
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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.
Author:
Phyllis McGinley
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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.
Author:
John Linder
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Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.
Author:
Karl Kraus
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People here in Los Angeles are disgusted now about a sex scandal involving Arnold Schwarzenegger. Apparently for seven years, he carried on a sexual relationship with his own wife.
Author:
Craig Kilborn
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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.
Author:
Ayatollah Khomeini
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Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
Author:
Anna Jameson
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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.
Author:
Timothy Hutton
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Some day, someone will do something wrong and there will be a scandal to report in the paper. When that happens, we will address it honestly and openly and try to deal with it as quickly and as fairly as we can, and keep moving the city forward.
Author:
John Hickenlooper
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The scandal happened and I made the best of it. I kind of feel like in the end it was a blessing.
Author:
Jessica Hahn
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We know that second terms have historically been marred by hubris and by scandal.
Author:
David Gergen
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A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.
Author:
Thomas Fuller
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When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled.
Author:
J. Fulbright
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Longevity conquers scandal every time.
Author:
Shelby Foote
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Pointing fingers, trying to catch each other in scandal does not bring honor to this House.
Author:
Mark Foley
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
Author:
Larry Flynt
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That's what Major League Baseball's steroid scandal was all about, the hidden harm in competitive sports that sends the wrong message to the young.
Author:
Suzanne Fields
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
Author:
Henry Fielding
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There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
Author:
George Farquhar
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There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
Author:
George Farquhar
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It's amazing to me that people have any interest in such a low-level sex scandal. If I were sleeping with a congressman, maybe, but I'm a nobody and the people I'm writing about are nobodies.
Author:
Jessica Cutler
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They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.
Author:
William Congreve
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The Iraqi Free Press, which did not exist 18 months ago because there was no such thing as the Iraqi Free Press, broke a story about the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal, which could potentially turn out to be the largest scandal in history.
Author:
Chris Chocola
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Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.
Author:
Nicolas Chamfort
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Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.
Author:
Robert Cecil
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So after the Lewinsky scandal, everything changed, and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time, which were social, to moral issues of our time that were very personal. I have continued that relationship up until the present.
Author:
Tony Campolo
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The scandal's so unbelievable that I cannot repeat it here.
Author:
Marion Bradley
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This stuff on enemy combatants, the Bush Administration has fought like a tiger to avoid having to produce any evidence to a judge to show why somebody is locked up in perpetuity. Another example of that is the torture scandal.
Author:
James Bovard
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Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
Author:
Josh Billings
