Bought Quote by Bill Dedman

“In Montana in the 1890s, as in the United States in the 2010s, the laws were loose enough to allow men of means to…

— Bill Dedman

Montanans elected me to the Senate to do away with shady backroom deals and to make government work better.

— Jon Tester

“Money bought access. But the Second American Revolution had happened, people began taking the Constitution seriously again, and the practice of renting and buying…

— Jack McDevitt

Robert Torricelli, a powerful fund-raiser who helped raise more than $100 million for the Democratic party, took inappropriate gifts from a businessman, including an…

— Jon Stewart

I don't think it's bribery; I think it's extortion. Bribery, you know, is when the person that's giving the money does it voluntarily. What…

— John McCain

“There's probably no one so easily bribed, but he lacks even the fundamental honesty of honorable corruption. He doesn't stay bribed; not for any…

— Isaac Asimov

Long before Wesley Snipes decided he didn't need to pay the IRS, Willie Nelson was dodging the tax men.

— Shawn Amos

For any politician who didn't enter office a wealthy man, nothing says 'I take bribes' like a Rolex watch.

— Timothy Noah

“You will hear everlastingly, in all discussions about newspapers, companies, aristocracies, or party politics, this argument that the rich man cannot be bribed. The…

— Garry Wills

“The U.S. Senate presented the most powerful obstacle to any progressive reform. Because senators at the time were elected by state legislatures rather than…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

The structure of private campaign finance has essentially pre-corrupted our politicians, so that they can't even recognize explicit bribery because it feels the same…

— Zephyr Teachout

“(Jefferson) was deeply suspicious of Hamilton's assumption plan (by which the nation would assume responsibility for the states' individual war debts.) He feared this…

— Jay Winik