Character Quote by George Packer

Scandals have impacted many politicians' careers and aspirations. Some have survived, and others have fallen.

— Mercedes Schlapp

People like scandals.

— Blanka Vlasic

Public scandals are America's favorite parlor sport. Learning about the flaws and misdeeds of the rich and famous seems to satisfy our egalitarian yearnings.

— Robert Dallek

There's too many people that paint with a broad brush that we're all corrupt, we're all amoral. … And having these kinds of things…

— John Ensign

Scandals are the fertilizer of Western democracy.

— Dario Fo

The thing that I love about 'Scandal' is every character, it's not clear if they're good or bad. Everyone is both good and bad.

— Nazanin Boniadi

I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.

— Oscar Wilde

Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.

— Ouida

Audiences have become so much more sophisticated, and they're looking for different eyes and different ways to tell a story. And 'Scandal' certainly gives…

— Tom Verica

Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him.

— Walter Lippmann

When scandals proliferate, human beings become so obsessed with their rivals that they lose sight of the objects for which they compete and begin…

— Rene Girard

People love a good scandal. We love a good freakin' scandal and a good soap opera.

— Lana