"The day will come when another and more pure & virtuous legislature, will make null & void this sale of birthright" : the Yazoo Land Fraud
"If I were to name this, I would call it the will o' wisp treason" : the Aaron Burr conspiracy
"Mr. Sumner, I have read your speech twice over carefully. It is a libel on South Carolina, and Mr. Butler, who is a relative of mine" : the caning of Charles Sumner
"Have those men dismissed by 3 o'clock this afternoon or shut down the bureau" : Grant administration scandals of the 1870s
"Do you believe this man is crook? If He is a crook, convict him" : the Teapot Dome Scandal
"I am the only candidate inspected by the United States government and found to be 100 percent pure" : William "Wild Bill" Langer
"Nobody sat down in front of me with a suitcase of money" : Spiro Agnew
"I am not a crook" : the Watergate Scandal
"Money talks in this business, and bullshit walks" : the Abscam Scandal
"I have been in government long enough to know that you don't have to ask the question explicitly to know what the message is" : the Savings & Loan Scandal
"I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not" : the Iran-Contra Affair
"All he was worried about was Jack. Jack has to get his next big check" : Jack Abramoff and influence peddling
"Everybody's trying to get me. It's unfair. Now everybody's saying I'm going to be impeached" : 2016 Russian election enterference.
