Bribes Quotes

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A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it. — John le Carre
When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive. — Miguel de Cervantes
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 government… — Ayn Rand
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 will… — Sun Tzu
Reason, on the contrary, assures us, that as in so great a number, a fit representative would be most likely to be found, so the… — James Madison
American Hustle shows the FBI making real-life bribes to Washington politicians. I know, because as your U.S. senator, I turned them down. — Larry Pressler
Bribes and boy bands. Thatâ€™s all you need to be a babysitter. — Mindy Kaling
Congress, 535 commoditized temple monkeys pawing through the ruins of America in search of bribes. The bicameral whorehouse on Capitol Hill works like a vending… — Fred Reed
Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of… — Marsilio Ficino
How is a magician to exist without books? Let someone explain that to me. It is like asking a politician to achieve high office without… — Susanna Clarke
If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more. — Barbara Tuchman
Oh, it doesn't work at all. That's the problem! It's an endless, halting parade of inspections, bribes, and nonsense-but if you're aboard a Texas vessel,… — Cherie Priest
That is a society editor, sitting there elegantly dressed, with his legs crossed in that indolent way, observing the clothes the ladies wear, so that… — Mark Twain
I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision. — Francis Bacon
There are two parties involved in every corrupt transaction, typically a government official and a business person. Yet those who pay bribes are often depicted… — Lynda Chalker, Baroness Chalker of Wallasey
Japan has a low crime rate, unless you count the fact that approximately every fifteen minutes the entire Cabinet gets indicted for taking bribes. — Dave Barry
What, shall one of us, That struck for the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers--shall we now Contaminate our fingers with… — William Shakespeare
It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where… — Jack Cade
If we want to do more than just end mass incarcerationâ€”if we want to put an end to the history of racial caste in Americaâ€”we… — Michelle Alexander
Until the nineteen-seventies, Western countries paid little attention to corruption overseas, and bribery was seen as an unpleasant but necessary part of doing business there.… — James Surowiecki

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