Villaraigosa Scandal Quotes

Everybody knows that L.A. is known for its addiction to the single-passenger automobile, the gridlock, the congestion on the freeways. ~ Antonio Villaraigosa

Don't let the Monday morning quarterbacks stop you from being bold. You've got to set a high bar. ~ Antonio Villaraigosa

I'm not looking for a battle with anybody, neither the council nor our labor partners. ~ Antonio Villaraigosa

I know that my heart and my family are here in California, not in Washington, D.C. ~ Antonio Villaraigosa

My kids and I are spending time together. And we're enjoying that. Family is important; I was gone a lot in the 20 years of public service. ~ Antonio Villaraigosa

Some critics say I spent too much time on politics. I don't put much stock in the critics. ~ Antonio Villaraigosa

You all know I love L.A., but tonight I really love L.A., ~ Antonio Villaraigosa

We're not a homogeneous party, anymore than the Republicans are. But we are a party that I think has a plan to take us forward. ~ Antonio Villaraigosa

I've made no secret that although I loved being a legislator, I particularly loved being a chief executive. ~ Antonio Villaraigosa

Too many Californians are struggling to make ends meet, pay the bills, and send their kids to college. They are looking for progressive leaders in Washington who will fight for them, like Senator Boxer has done for over 20 years. ~ Antonio Villaraigosa

How you are perceived is over a continuum of time. So I just keep on working. I've kind of always seen that as the antidote. Just keep on working. ~ Antonio Villaraigosa

Every president, Democrat or Republican, every Congress, has gotten behind the idea that we have to invest in our highways, our bridges, our roads, our airports. The idea that now this is somehow a partisan issue, it boggles the mind. ~ Antonio Villaraigosa

I say to people that Los Angeles is a city of America's hope and its promise. It's a city where we come from every corner of the Earth here to make the American dream happen. ~ Antonio Villaraigosa

Expose not the secret failings of mankind, otherwise you must verily bring scandal upon them and distrust upon yourself. ~ Saadi

I want to be known as the mayor who happens to be Latino who made a difference. I ran to make a difference. ~ Antonio Villaraigosa

Nothing moves more quickly than scandal. ~ Livy

The fact is this is a great country because we've always embraced immigrants. The fact is we have every right to enforce our borders and to protect them, but we also need to provide a pathway for citizenship. ~ Antonio Villaraigosa

Actually, as president of the Conference of Mayors, we passed the Simpson-Bowles plan as a template, as a template, as a frame work for moving forward and the president has done the same. ~ Antonio Villaraigosa

The fact is, when you hear the Republican candidates on immigration, when you see them and hear them talk about contraception, mammograms, abortion, and not the economy, it's clear to me they're moving farther and farther away from the mainstream. ~ Antonio Villaraigosa

I don't want to describe either Governor Mitt Romney or the Republicans as stupid, but I will say this - if you look at their platform, the 2012 platform, it looks like it's from another century and maybe even two. It looks like the platform of 1812. ~ Antonio Villaraigosa

I have decided not to run for the U.S. Senate and instead continue my efforts to make California a better place to live, work, and raise a family. We have come a long way, but our work is not done, and neither am I. ~ Antonio Villaraigosa

The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come ... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here. ~ Antonio Villaraigosa

I've always said that L.A. is the city of America's future. It is to the world what London was in the 19th century and New York in the 20th because of the growth of the Pacific Rim countries. We're the portal to the emerging world. ~ Antonio Villaraigosa

Lebedev: ... There'll be a scandal, the tongues of the whole district will buzz with gossip, but it's better to go through a scandal, isn't it, than to destroy yourself for your whole life. ~ Anton Chekhov

Again, if I was going to call Romney and the Republicans stupid, I'm certainly not going to call the Democrats and President Obama stupid. ~ Antonio Villaraigosa

I believe that the mayor of the most diverse city anywhere in the world has to be a uniter, has to be someone that's comfortable in every community, has to be someone that represents all of us. ~ Antonio Villaraigosa

I believe in family values, and I believe that we all ought to be able to have a family and marry if you want to. I don't think the government should be in that business of denying people the fundamental right to marry. ~ Antonio Villaraigosa

he fought hard against corruption in all forms, especially with the Canal Ring (every scandal during this time seems to have the word "ring" attached to it, much like every scandal since Watergate has "gate" attached to it.) ~ Michael Rubbinaccio

Scandal is only human. ~ Jerry Saltz

The Democrats and Republicans need to come together. I've criticized Democrats for their unwillingness to address entitlement reform and Social Security and Medicare. Republicans, on the other hand, never saw a tax that they liked, even when it meant closing tax loopholes. They don't want to in any way support any revenue enhancements. ~ Antonio Villaraigosa

The Enron scandal calls into question the integrity of the entire capitalist system, which previously we assumed was based on honest, straightforward greed. ~ Joel Achenbach

As an early-and-often chronicler of Chicago-on-the-Potomac, I am amazed at the stubborn and clingy persistence of President Barack Obama's snowblowers in the media. See no scandal, hear no scandal, speak no scandal. ~ Michelle Malkin

There are teachers' unions around the country realizing they want to improve standards of the profession, improve the quality of their profession, and ultimately attract the best and the brightest to their profession. The vast majority of teachers are dedicated and committed. ~ Antonio Villaraigosa

When I ran the first time in 2001, they called me 'The Latino Mayor.' By the time I left in 2013, with a 58 percent approval rating, half the people liked me, half the people didn't. I was everybody's mayor. There was never any criticism that I was just for one group. ~ Antonio Villaraigosa

My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child. ~ Antonio Villaraigosa

In fighting scandal, the key is not to overreact. ~ Dick Morris

Nothing satisfies the craving of most women so much as scandal. ~ Emma Goldman

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

I'm excited about Los Angeles because I believe in her. I believe in her destiny. I think that the fact that we have so many different people from so many parts of the world is a big reason why L.A. is the city of America's promise. ~ Antonio Villaraigosa

Yes, she was a scandal.
Her brother simply didn't know it.
"I fell in the Serpentine today."
"Yes, well, that doesn't usually happen to women in London. But it's not so much of a scandal as it is a challenge. ~ Sarah MacLean

In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal. ~ Edward Abbey

We should even go beyond doing what is required in order to avoid scandal. ~ Saint Basil

The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all. ~ Moliere

The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal. ~ Ovid

In no small part I think all of us kind of look in the mirror and feel good or not feel good about the person we seen in the mirror in no small part because of the jobs we have. ~ Antonio Villaraigosa

Glory is a scandal. Let me state once & for all: I do not wish to be civilized. ~ Arthur Cravan

A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal ~ Roger L'Estrange

Happy is he who causes a scandal ~ Salvador Dali

Let me be clear - no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We are all accountable for our actions. ~ Antonio Villaraigosa

The big scandal was when I was in seventh grade and I modeled a bathing suit. Everybody freaked out! ~ Jennifer Morrison

Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved. ~ Larry Flynt

Abortion is a worse moral scandal than priests sexually abusing young people. ~ George Pell

If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal? ~ George Bancroft

Poverty is a scandal of our times because it CAN be changed. ~ Catherine Marshall

I've dodged bullets but there's no scandal in my life. ~ Hector Elizondo

Everything's a scandal. Dying's a scandal. But we all do it. ~ Don DeLillo

Curiosity engenders both science and scandal. ~ Mason Cooley

The weirdest thing about Hillary Clinton's email 'scandal' is finding out some of our senators still don't use email. ~ John Legend

It always takes a scandal to bring about reform. ~ Sal Albanese

In my youth I hoped to do great things; now I shall be satisfied to get through without scandal. ~ Walter Bagehot

I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal. ~ George Stevens

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

We know that second terms have historically been marred by hubris and by scandal. ~ David Gergen

It's better to have died a small child than to be a politician who gets caught in a scandal during a slow news month. ~ Lewis Grizzard

Then, if to make your ruin more,
You'll peevishly be coy,
Die with the scandal of a whore
And never know the joy. ~ John Wilmot

The scandal's so unbelievable that I cannot repeat it here. ~ Marion Zimmer Bradley

An aesthetic movement with a revolutionary dynamism and no popular appeal should proceed quite otherwise than by public scandal, publicity stunt, noisy expulsion and excommunication. ~ Cyril Connolly

Any truth creates a scandal. ~ Marguerite Yourcenar

God is a scandal, - a profitable scandal. ~ Charles Baudelaire

One day, I want enough money to be at the center of a corruption scandal. ~ Gil A. Waters

Every scandal has its road kill: the pedestrians who stumble into the headlights of the oncoming 18-wheeler. ~ Bill Dedman

The Iraqi Free Press, which did not exist 18 months ago because there was no such thing as the Iraqi Free Press, broke a story about the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal, which could potentially turn out to be the largest scandal in history. ~ Chris Chocola

It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all. ~ Moliere

All too many journalists seem to mistake scandal mongering for tenacious investigation, and far too many aspire to make themselves the story. ~ Laurie Garrett

To most women art is a form of scandal. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

So much of what I say gets sensationalized and journalists have to report on scandal because that's what people are hungry to read about. ~ Megan Fox

To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin. ~ Moliere

Sales of George Orwell's 1984 have skyrocketed. It's true. So the fallout from the (NSA spying) scandal is worse than we thought. It's forcing Americans to read. ~ Conan O'Brien

For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise . The scandal of men is everlasting; even then does it survive when you would suppose it to be dead. ~ Plautus

Unfortunately, WorldCom is not the only company caught up in this kind of accounting scandal. The impact this will have on the general public is yet to be seen. ~ Bennie Thompson

For now the poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins the scandal and the cry. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

An Internet rumor claims that John Kerry had an affair with a young woman. When asked if this was similar to the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, a spokesman said 'Close, but no cigar.' ~ Jimmy Fallon

What was the scandal? I fell in love with this girl, married her. We have been married for almost 15 years now. ~ Woody Allen

In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief. ~ Lord Chesterfield

In a recent interview, Howard Dean admitted that he used to drink and smoke pot. So, now all he needs to put him over the top is a sex scandal. ~ David Letterman

Despite the Brian Williams lying scandal, NBC News led in the ratings last week. Although I should note the figures were reported by Brian Williams. ~ Conan O'Brien

A boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks. A girl does the same
scandal. ~ Katharine Hepburn

He exclaims, "Happy is the one not scandalized by me." There will be throughout Christian history a tendency of Christians themselves to choose Jesus as an alternative scandal, that is, a tendency to lose themselves and merge into the mob of persecutors. For St. Paul, consequently, the Cross is the scandal par excellence. I would observe that the symbolism of the traditional cross, the crossing of the two branches, renders visible the internal contradiction of the scandal. The ~ Rene Girard

A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop. ~ Nicolas Chamfort

A God who did not abolish suffering-worse , a God who abolished sin precisely by suffering-is a scandal to the modern mind. ~ Peter Kreeft

(Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe. ~ Blaise Pascal

Scandal is the sport of its authors, the dread of fools, and the contempt of the wise. ~ William Benton Clulow

The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence. ~ Moliere

If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia. ~ Ron Fournier

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

A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings. ~ Thomas Fuller

There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty. ~ George Farquhar

Forty years after the greatest scandal of the American presidency, Elizabeth Drew's account in Washington Journal remains fresh and riveting, instructive and evocative. Her afterword on Nixon's post-Watergate life is equally compelling. ~ Tom Brokaw

Scandals never stop an administration unless the media wants them to stop an administration, which means that no scandal is ever gonna stop Obama. ~ Rush Limbaugh

My wife and I have our date nights. We love the Showtime shows like 'Shameless,' 'Homeland' and 'House of Lies.' And of course, 'Scandal' is high on the list; you've got to do 'Scandal.' ~ Glynn Turman