Corruption Quotes
747 quotes by 574 authors
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Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
— Richard Armour
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The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police.
— Julian Assange
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You can't take money from the taxpayers out of the treasury to give it to pay off your political donors. That's corruption to do that.
— Michele Bachmann
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He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is…
— Samuel Adams
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It's not just spending, it's not just taxes, it's not just corruption, it is progressivism, and it is in both parties. It is in the…
— Glenn Beck
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The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
— Georges Bernanos
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless assaults on Israel,…
— Conrad Black
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We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
— Aesop
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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than…
— David Brin
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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
— Jacob Bronowski
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Big government conservatives are spending trillions and wasting billions. Republicans are no longer the party of fiscal conservancy, but the party of runaway spending and…
— Sherrod Brown
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This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to…
— James L. Buckley
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
— Edmund Burke
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A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money -…
— Eric Cantor
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In 2004, I wrote 'What We've Lost,' a book about the Bush administration. It sold only reasonably well, in part, I think, because the book…
— Graydon Carter
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Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to…
— Saul Alinsky
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Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog…
— John Jay Chapman
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
— Noam Chomsky
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