Dark place Quote by Shonda Rhimes

The Countrywide scandal is a lesson for anyone who tries to downplay the significance of crony capitalism, which moves far beyond perks and favors…

— Tom Fitton

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.

— Tom Petri

I think that scandal and intrigue and all of those sort of things that occur behind closed doors - whether it's on the Hill…

— Judy Smith

Watching 'Scandal' is a fun and exciting guilty pleasure, which is how I imagine most real scandals start out.

— Donna Brazile

“When the people elected a president like this one, who ran a campaign like the one he ran, it was hard to imagine what…

— Orson Scott Card

Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again it's the system - there…

— Esther Dyson

In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.

— Jerry Saltz

What Andrew Cuomo said is, truly, a scandal. It's a scandal if he actually thinks it - that those who hold conservative views on…

— Peggy Noonan

Corruption is no stranger to Washington; it is a famous resident.

— Walter Goodman

There's really a fundamental political corruption problem that put Washington completely out of touch with the people.

— Cal Cunningham

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

— Lana

I don't think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.

— Beau Willimon