Corruption Quotes

747 quotes by 574 authors

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
The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police. — Julian Assange
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
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
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
The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means. — Georges Bernanos
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. — Ambrose Bierce
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
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. — Aesop
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
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. — Jacob Bronowski
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
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
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist. — Edmund Burke
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay. — Amos Bronson Alcott
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
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
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
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
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. — Noam Chomsky

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