#scandal

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#dead #disturbs #novelty #originality #repels

Nope, no sex scandals yet. But I am open to offers! ↗

— John Cusack

#i #i am #offers #open #scandals

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

— Larry Flynt

#any #get #involved #scandal #time

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. ↗

— Paul Weyrich

#appointing #bench #constitutional #decades #federal

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. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#after #bible #changed #continued #everything

Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease. ↗

— Robert Cecil

#consisted #disease #scandal #venereal #virtue

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. ↗

— Chris Chocola

#ago #because #broke #could #did

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

— David R. Gergen

#historically #hubris #know #marred #scandal

We've seen the hubris. And now we're seeing the scandals. ↗

— David R. Gergen

#now #scandals #seeing #seen

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

#countries #deplorable #examples #few #human