Cover ups Quote by Tom Petri

It isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up.

— Tom Petri

No particular scandal one can touch but it confounds the breather.

— William Shakespeare

'Scandal' has always lived in this dark place with this idea that Washington is filled with this underbelly of monsters, that if the real…

— Shonda Rhimes

The reality is that it is mainly a Republican scandal for several reasons.

— Larry Noble

You know, I really miss sex scandals. They're generally colorful. They almost never mean anything over the long run. And while they're going on,…

— Gail Collins

It is better that the truth be known than that scandal be covered up.

— Saint Augustine

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

— Cal Cunningham

The scandal's so unbelievable that I cannot repeat it here.

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

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

When I became involved with Chris Timothy, it became a truly huge national scandal. It was out of all proportion and went on for…

— Carol Drinkwater

People like scandals.

— Blanka Vlasic

I think everybody is covering their [posteriors] with the Enron scandal and it was very convenient that Sept. 11 came along to deflect the…

— Sandra Bernhard