People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous.
[Benjamin Franklin's life was:] ... one continued insult to good manners and decency.
Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.
No one's going to admit they're in favor of adulterers, although it may not be a group unfamiliar to the Senate. There have been some remarkably lecherous people in the Senate over the years.
When New Hampshire's Senate defeated a bill that would decriminalize adultery:
I stepped on a land mine named Jayson Blair.
Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
To compare Whitewater to Watergate is a travesty.
Because of an adulterous affair I shall leave office in November.
Bank of America is to sweetheart loans and Democratic Party payoffs as Paula Deen is to sugar and bacon grease.
I could not lose [his gubernatorial race] unless I was caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy.
The Gentlemen of England serve under the greatest cad in Europe.
A little scandal is an excellent thing; nobody is ever brighter or happier of tongue than when he is making mischief of his neighbors.
I find it hilarious when Obama's hand gets caught in the cookie jar
Joe Kennedy is one of the biggest crooks who ever lived.
People like scandals.
People are saying: 'the Argentina uniform should not be stained.' Forget about it. The Argentina uniform is already pretty stained.
What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next century
Every time you open the paper now, there seems to be another celebrity getting arrest for masturbation. First, it was Peewee Herman and then George Michael. If masturbation's a crime, I should be on death row.
The United Nations is a mess, riddled with scandals. In fact, the U.N. itself is a scandal.
A Fellow who has deserved to be hang'd by all Laws human and divine, for his Conduct in private Life, will spring up into an important Champion at the Head of a Party.
I don't believe in gutter politics. I don't believe in gutter journalism.
Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
I'm drawing the gossip surrounding the celebrity, or the image the celebrity tries to push on us.
Anthony Weiner is a crafty and worthy adversary - an unrepentant lefty who is usually a savvy media player.
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.