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We will not be able to move past this scandal as a nation until there is full independent investigation of all that has gone wrong in our detention and interrogation policy, and all the persons found responsible for these shameful policies are held accountable,

Fears about the next scandal seem to have eased. It's not very exciting, but it's a period where a lack of news is almost good.

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

Things like this just wear you out. It's frustrating because every two months we seem to have a scandal around here, and then the people involved decide they won't talk to the media. That leaves the rest of us, who aren't involved, to have to answer for them publicly, and it's not a whole lot of fun. But, hey, some guys are just selfish. They don't think about anybody else.

The scandal is not what's illegal. It's what's legal.

The scandal is about video games. But we could be talking movies or television programs.

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

Presidents Truman and Nixon left office under dark clouds of scandal and with abysmal levels of support, but with the passage of time, both have been reassessed far more positively.

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.

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

The mutual fund scandal is a bigger deal than anyone thinks right now. There's real turmoil in the mutual fund world. You don't take down a fund group like Putnam without creating a tremendous amount of angst and uncertainty.

After having his hand in nearly every bad Bush policy decision and nearly every scandal that has consumed the Bush White House, it is not surprising that Karl Rove was demoted this morning.

deeply grieved by the fact that priests and religious have themselves caused such suffering and scandal among the young.

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.

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

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.

Your impact fee has been written by the development industry. It's a scandal of monumental proportions.

This is the first time that normal citizens had a chance to speak on the biggest and most widespread political scandal in Wisconsin history. They resoundingly said that this was a profound violation of the public trust.

This past week's good news for reformers is likely to continue in the weeks and months to come. Record campaign fundraising (see Schwarzenegger's bid to raise $120 million in the California gubernatorial race) and the continued stench of national scandal will lift reform efforts in Washington DC and across the country this year and beyond.

There was a time when it would be a great scandal if you announced you were going to be an actor.

There remains some risk. If turmoil in the equity markets should continue, that would impact consumer sentiment and consumer behavior. No one really knows what will happen. There can be a second wave of scandal from other companies. I can't dismiss that possibility.

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

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.

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

It's a scandal that is still unfolding, ... many criminal and civil cases that will be announced in the months to come.

It was a scandal when I did French 'Playboy' in 2008, though I was never actually nude in it. I think it's really funny that I'll have a cover of 'Playboy' to show my grandkids.

I totally underestimated the degree with which people just get sick of 24-hour-a-day talk television and talk radio, the degree to which this whole scandal just became sort of disgusting by sheer repetition,

It's all very well to say one scandal shouldn't set back the field, but Hwang's team was the field. If his results are false, then after seven years of attempts worldwide, no one has succeeded in getting even the first step in 'therapeutic cloning' to work on a practical scale. At what point do legislators stop throwing away good money after bad?

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

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.

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.

TALKATIVE persons easily step into scandal mongering. Too much talk and a tongue addicted to scandal are twins; they work together and in unison.

Sullivan took a company that was really scandal ridden, and he has opened it up. On the other hand, will he pull off all sorts of new major products like Greenberg did? It's really hard to say.

It will take a couple of weeks for people to properly assess the impact of the scandal in Japan. The key is how widespread is it.

This is information that should have been released a long time ago, and it's a scandal that it hasn't been.

Once again, the City Council's stability has been rocked and a scandal falls on City Hall.

the fall-out from the Oil-for-Food scandal has dogged all our lives for the last year, often gave us the feeling that we were on an inexorable downward slope.

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.

I hope there's a tinge of disgrace about me. Hopefully, there's one good scandal left in me yet.

I hope that the investigations into the scandal would not net just the small fish but also the sharks. This was the hour of those who claimed to be fighting corruption to prove themselves,

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

I'm not sure you can have an event like that anymore. When we made the film, as you can see, we had dial phones, there was no Internet, there was no cable, there was no computerization of our culture, and so one event like this -- one scandal -- could command that kind of attention.

If people don't think this is interesting, then political scandal just ain't what it used to be.

If you look at the big picture, I think the whole THG, designer drug scandal is a good thing for the sport, ... Every time someone gets caught I see that as a positive, because it is an effort to clean up the sport. We really have to look at drug use in sports, whether track and field or any other sport, just like you would look at crime in society. To think it is going to stop completely would be foolish and unrealistic. It is never going to happen. Just like with criminals in society, you are always going to have people who are raised with poor morals or who don't feel confident in their ability to go out and be successful without cheating someone else.

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.

In the world of celebrity, there is one universal law: if there's a scandal or death, Al Sharpton will be there.

In some respects, it's the most damaging and difficult mess for baseball since the White Sox scandal in 1919.

In Washington, task forces work like Tylenol: they reduce the symptoms of scandal while leaving the substance untouched.

In the case of scandal as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief

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

Can the prime minister tell us why this Liberal culture of waste and scandal is only stopped once it is actually exposed publicly?

The media is Obama's scandal condom.

The United Nations is a mess, riddled with scandals. In fact, the U.N. itself is a scandal.

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

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

The business pages of American newspapers should not read like a scandal sheet.

Abortion is a worse moral scandal than priests sexually abusing young people.

Scandal is only human.

The big scandal was when I was in seventh grade and I modeled a bathing suit. Everybody freaked out!

It's an article of faith in Tinseltown: when liberals get mired in scandal, it's because they are tragically flawed; when conservatives get in trouble, it's because they are evil.

The scandal happened and I made the best of it. I kind of feel like in the end it was a blessing.

What a scandal, if I die. Yeah, I'm gonna kill myself, get a little headline news.

Scandal breeds hatred; hatred begets division; division makes faction, and faction brings ruin.

I am absolutely clear that the scandal of junk food served every day in school canteens must end. So today I can announce that I will ban low-quality reprocessed bangers and burgers high in fat, salt and sugar being served in schools, from next September.

I am pleased that Secretary Thompson has acknowledged the growing scandal over the Medicare drug bill and has pledged an independent inquiry into the misconduct,

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.

Her charges are completely false. It's a misleading attempt to shift the focus off her involvement in the largest congressional bribery scandal in history.

He banged on the side of the carriage. "Thomas! We must away at once to the nearest brothel. I seek scandal and low companionship.

Are you implying that shreds of my reputation remain intact?" Will demanded with mock horror. "Clearly I have been doing something wrong. Or not something wrong, as the case may be." He banged on the side of the carriage. "Thomas! We must away at once to the nearest brothel. I seek scandal and low companionship.

The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.

The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.

To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.

If there is anything material and we're not reporting it, we'll be breaking the law. We don't break the law.

Let's redefine scandal. Scandal is not who's dating who. Scandal is 1.2 million people living in tents in Haiti.

Starlet sex scandal. Giant squid involved.

I've been left alone, even by the paparazzi, because what sells is sex and scandal. Absent that, they really don't have much interest in you. I'm still married, still working, still happy.

Any truth creates a scandal.

Every popular zillion dollar sport has its share of personal scandals around the sport and its leadership.

It's time to save the U.N. from its own scandals and mismanagement. It's time for U.N. Reform with teeth

Like many another romance, the romance of the family turns sour when the money runs out. If we really cared about families, we would not let 'born again' patriarchs send up moral abstractions as a smokescreen for the scandal of American family economics.

I have a saying: the scandal isn't what's illegal, the scandal is what's legal.

Silence kills scandal.

Curiosity engenders both science and scandal.

A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop.

The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind.

So much of what I say gets sensationalized and journalists have to report on scandal because that's what people are hungry to read about.

Through Clinton and Monica, Clinton and Hillary, the scandal, the impeachment, Iraq, Bruce and Demi, Ellen and Anne, I have remained consistently and nauseatingly adorable. I have, in fact, been known to cause diabetes.

The failure to invest in our public transportation and public life, I think, is a scandal and a shame, and it should be a national embarrassment.

I am struck the whole litany of people, especially of that era, who were involved in some scandal or another. Some of it was sexual. Some of it was more financial. And it was just all concentrated in a lot of people all at once.

The French Revolution printed money because they didn't have any, so they just printed it, and this was a revolutionary step which of course we are still reaping the huge consequences of today. It struck me that this was beginning to happen...there had been scandals where shares had been printed.

For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise . The scandal of men is everlasting; even then does it survive when you would suppose it to be dead.

When I started out, it was considered very wrong to change an image. There were scandals if someone inserted a sky into a war picture or something. Now it's all about that.

So fruitful is slander in variety of expedients to satiate as well as disguise itself. But if these smoother weapons cut so sore, what shall we say of open and unblushing scandal, subjected to no caution, tied down to no restraints?

Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.

This home secretary will forever be associated with the scandal of releasing prisoners on to the streets.

Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.

If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?

Unemployment is bigger than a political party. It is a national danger and a national scandal.

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.

Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.