D.C. is more corrupt than Hollywood. It really is.

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority,…

— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

The Democrats and the Republicans are equally corrupt where money is concerned. It's only in the amount where the Republicans excel.

— Will Rogers

Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America.

— Charles Edward Merriam

Chicago's been under the grip of the corrupt and broken political machine for as long as everybody's memory.

— Lori Lightfoot

What astonishes many of us is not so much that human nature is fundamentally corrupt; we are astonished rather that it does not behave…

— Morton Irving Seiden

The problem is that when you grow absolutely certain that all authorities are corrupt, then that would include the Palestinian authorities as well.

— Elia Suleiman

Corruption hates what is not corrupt.

— Paul Park

The Islamist camp is infused with a righteous indignation, as the forces of old, corrupt and rotten Egypt unite to try and drive them…

— Crispin Blunt

I have so many positive points. I am not corrupt, I am competent.

— Tamilisai Soundararajan

“It’s so easy to lose faith and become lost in all of the politics of the world. That’s why we need the arts. To…

— Kamand Kojouri

“Interacting with a corrupt government judge is futile.”

— Steven Magee

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming.”

— Oscar Wilde

If the Russians masterminded fraud for 40 years at the highest state level in sports, operating behind the scenes to corrupt sports, what else…

— Bryan Fogel

Burn a Bush cause for peace he no push no button. Killing over oil and grease, no weapons of destruction, How can we follow…

— Common

I think everybody is covering their [posteriors] with the Enron scandal and it was very convenient that Sept. 11 came along to deflect the…

— Sandra Bernhard