[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance…

You can't lose with the Stuff I use!

— Reverend Ike

Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of…

— Ayn Rand

To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid for silence,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think if people give you their time and they haven't got any money then they deserve to get something. Not so that you…

— Nick Broomfield

The enemy's spies who have come to spy on us must be sought out, tempted with bribes, led away and comfortably housed. Thus they…

— Sun Tzu

The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man.

— Henry David Thoreau

I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.

— Francis Bacon

How is a magician to exist without books? Let someone explain that to me. It is like asking a politician to achieve high office…

— Susanna Clarke

The best thing you can do for the planet is to stay home.

— Gary Snyder

What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices—more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe. What I’m…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Bribe is such an ugly word. I prefer extortion. The X makes it sound cool.

— Bender (The Cartoon Character

“Bribe cartographers to remove us from the atlas.”

— Melancton Hawks

There's a property in Panama where Trump has collected somewhere around $30 million just from selling his name to this property - it's somewhere…

— Naomi Klein

There are not many companies in China that dare to say in public, 'We don't offer bribes', or companies that operate only by market…

— Wang Jianlin

The median family of four ... paid $4,722 in federal taxes last year. That's enough to pay for a new curtain for the secretary…

— Alan Bock