28 Quotes filtered by Scandal
I hope that people know me well enough and realise that I would never do anything to harm the country or anything improper. I never have. I think most people who have dealt with me think I am a pretty straight sort of a guy.
Tony Blair
After the Ecclestone affair.
Category: Corruption & Sleaze
What do these rumours amount to? They amount to the fact that a Minister is said to be acquainted with a particularly pretty girl. I should have thought that were a matter of congratulation rather than enquiry.
Reginald Paget 20/03/1963
On the Proumo affair.
Category: Sex Scandals
The people do not mind fornication but they loathe adultery.
Ramsay MacDonald 13/07/1936
On the abdication of Edward VIII
But he couldn't have had the time!
Selwyn Lloyd
On John Profumo's affair with Christine Keeler
Category: Sex Scandals
They who are of the opinion that money will do everything may well be suspected to do everything for money.
Marquess of Halifax
Category: Corruption & Sleaze, Money
A great Party is not to be brought down because of a squalid affair between a woman of easy virtue and a proven liar.
Lord Hailsham 13/06/1963
On the Profumo scandal
Category: Conservative Party, Sex Scandals
I am notorious. I will go down in history as another Lady Hamilton.
Mandy Rice-Davies 1963
Category: Sex Scandals
The Government is attempting a cover-up.
Richard Nixon 1948
On the Alger Hiss case
Category: Corruption & Sleaze
I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I have never put my hand in your pocket.
Spiro T Agnew
Agnew was later indicted on tax evasion charges.
Category: Corruption & Sleaze
The unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism.
Edward Heath 15/05/1963
On a payment by Lonrho to Tory MP Duncan Sandys.
Category: Corruption & Sleaze, Capitalism
I must tell my Hon. Friend Miss Janet Fookes) that although I have always been attracted to her I have never actually dared ask her whether she would go to bed with me.
Nicholas Fairbairn 25/01/1985
Category: Sex
All the poison that my Hon. friend (Edwina Currie) suggests I would happily take rather than be spread eagled on the floor of the House by her.
Nicholas Fairbairn 14/01/1985
Category: Sex
I said there had been no impropriety...that was not true and I misled you and my colleagues and the House.
John Profumo 23/03/1963
Category: Sex Scandals, Truth
There was no impropriety whatsoever in my acquaintance with Miss Keeler.
John Profumo
Category: Sex Scandals
I am always on the job.
Margaret Thatcher 1984
Interview on Aspel & Co, explaining that she lived above the shop at Downing Street
Category: Sex, Foot in Mouth
What do you think of those two then?
Margaret Thatcher
To male advisers, while holding up Page 3 of The Sun in front of them
Category: Sex
Jesus Christ, Peter, what a misjudgement.
Tony Blair 2000
Alleged remark of Tony Blair to Peter Mandelson as the row over his house purchase loan from Geoffrey Robinson unfolded.
Category: Corruption & Sleaze
I do not under any circumstances discuss my relations with the ladies. I am a gentleman, not a hairdresser.
Alan Clark
Discussing his diaries
Category: Sex
