Top 150 Scandal Quotes

My favorite cast member of ‘Scandal’ is Josh Malina.

Every writer has compressed time and procedure, and used clarifying dialogue. That’s not a scandal: it’s a legitimate dramatic technique.

I’m obsessed with ‘Scandal.’ I love, love, love it. I’ve gotten to meet all of the cast at this point, and they’re all so, so nice.

Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.

I’ve really gotten to play a lot of different things, starting with ‘Southpaw.’ For ‘Spotlight,’ I got to play this amazing journalist, Sacha Pfeiffer, who worked at the ‘Boston Globe’ when they broke the story about the sex scandal in the Catholic Church.

Russian hacking of the DNC is a problem, not a scandal.

The Clinton Foundation scandal raises a larger question: How can we trust Hillary Clinton with running our nation if she cannot even successfully manage her own foundation?

My job is to not take for granted when somebody says, ‘Oh, this is all just a made-up, phony scandal,’ or, ‘What this person did put the U.S. government at risk.’

The resignation of the British home secretary, Amber Rudd, over the Windrush scandal marks an important moment for independent, investigative journalism, demonstrating how it can hold power to account in order unequivocally to change people’s lives for the better.

To go straight to ‘Scandal’ and get to play the larger-than-life guy who has the page-long rants and gets drilled in the leg with blood flying everywhere, it was a blast. It’s really been a nice counterpoint after the first season of ‘The Carrie Diaries.’

Benghazi is not a scandal; Benghazi was a tragedy.

After the success of ‘Empire’ and ‘How to Get Away with Murder’ and ‘Scandal’ and ‘Power’ and ‘Black-ish’, which all had characters that were genuine, authentic, and had the language of real people, I found myself coming into pilot season and every network just wanted to have their version of one of those shows.

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

Every scandal has its road kill: the pedestrians who stumble into the headlights of the oncoming 18-wheeler.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that’s a scandal when we have so many riches and resources to give to everyone. We all have to think about how we can become a little poorer.

Even before the Windrush scandal, it was clear Britain’s immigration system was in desperate need of reform.

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.

As an early-and-often chronicler of Chicago-on-the-Potomac, I am amazed at the stubborn and clingy persistence of President Barack Obama’s snowblowers in the media. See no scandal, hear no scandal, speak no scandal.

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?

God bless ABC. They are my knights in shining armor. I love their content. Just as a person, I’m a huge fan of ‘Scandal,’ I still love ‘Grey’s Anatomy,’ and ‘Resurrection’ looks amazing.

If your response to a problem or scandal isn’t genuine, followers will sense it. And remember, by saying nothing, you’re saying something.

We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It’s a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.

My view is I should have been Miss Massillonian, and I wasn’t. I think the reason I wasn’t was because I was black. Frankly, I was told later I should have been. But they were afraid if they elected a black girl as Miss Massillonian, it would have been a scandal.

Shows like ‘Empire,’ ‘Black-ish,’ ‘Scandal,’ and ‘How to Get Away With Murder’ are expanding viewers’ perspectives on what people of color can be like. They’re showing more range. They’re showing more diversity within diversity.

It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.

Back when I first started with Scandal, I felt like I had to carry a lot of the weight because it was up to me to sell those songs.

Sociologists well understand that chaos at home causes violent behavior, educational failure and social alienation among children. Yet, many of us in America stay far, far away from this topic. That in itself is a national scandal. Bad parenting is gravely harming this nation.

The movie ‘Scandal Makers’ did so much better than I had thought. During that phase of my career, the people around me warned me that whatever goes up could always come back down.

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.

Republicans just don’t get that their idea of scandal is not what the average American thinks is a serious scandal.

The scandal isn’t that refugees want to come to the United States. It’s that Trump is abusing these aspiring Americans and closing our doors to them.

People were laughing at us and we knew it was our fault. The scandal caused us a lot of pain but I guess it made us face reality.

Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

It was a beauty contest in the ’80s. If they played two women back to back on the radio, it was almost a scandal.

In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.

I think Hillary Clinton’s probably going to be indicted, is my guess. So anything she can do to deflect from her email scandal and other scandals which are coming down is probably good for her.

William Andrews Clark was caught in a bribery scandal during a campaign for the U.S. Senate – he was said to describe the Montana legislators this way: ‘I never bought a man who wasn’t for sale.’

The biggest scandal I was ever involved in was – in high school, at a basketball game, I shot and scored for the other team.

For all of the diversity in ‘Scandal,’ no one else would be sitting in a room wearing a T-shirt and chains and call a Southern white Republican president a ‘boy.’ And it’s those kinds of things that Rowan has the freedom to say that nobody else could say within the confines of the show.

You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal.

‘Scandal,’ I sort of experienced the ascent and the transition from a modest start to a full-blown hit.

The Democrats’ obsession with scandal is out of touch and decadent. People want substance, not scandal.

My color is black. And black, if it’s worn right, is a scandal.

The Teapot Dome scandal seemed to epitomize the administration of the president at the time, Warren G. Harding, although Harding himself was not implicated in that particular scandal.

The trouble with progress is that it tends to happen slowly and quietly. It’s not necessarily going to shout about itself, or make the nightly news like a disaster or a scandal would.

I worked for a newspaper in Europe for, I lived in Europe for about seven years, so I worked in this sort of a yellow journalism kind of a thing, it was like a scandal sheet.

It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.

My mother’s rules had to do with feminine deportment, so I never played hard enough to break a toy or muddy my dress. My father’s rules had to do with never shaming the family by even a hint of scandal, and not providing business rivals with an opportunity to kidnap me or throw acid in my face.

I think role models exist, but they usually don’t get the light because people like scandal.

You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal.

What Andrew Cuomo said is, truly, a scandal. It’s a scandal if he actually thinks it – that those who hold conservative views on abortion, gun rights and marriage are extreme, anathema and have no place in the state.

I love ‘Scandal.’ It’s my favorite show – it’s really – the only one I really watch.

The Japanese covet important symbols – their heroic past as enshrined in Yasukuni, the Imperial family which has never been sullied by scandal.

I like that show ‘Ray Donovan’ – I’m obsessed with that. He’s in Hollywood, he’s some kind of a fixer, but he’s also kind of a thug. And ‘Scandal,’ the D.C. one with Kerry Washington.

My mother’s rules had to do with feminine deportment, so I never played hard enough to break a toy or muddy my dress. My father’s rules had to do with never shaming the family by even a hint of scandal, and not providing business rivals with an opportunity to kidnap me or throw acid in my face.