America Quote by Fred Reed

We handed the most important belongings of our people - the railroads and the banks - to aliens who 2000 years ago had turned…

— Julius Streicher

Congress, the legislative stone in America's urethra.

— Jon Stewart

“Five hundred and thirty-five members of Congress plied their trade near here in various buildings named after long-dead politicians. They, in turn, were surrounded…

— Grand Central Publishing

“Lobby—a peculiar institution for bribing, bulldozing, and corrupting the legislators who were supposed to represent the people's interests.”

— Jack London

What type of politics is the Congress practising, wherein its leaders commit the sin of looting money meant for the welfare of pregnant women…

— Smriti Irani

“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.” — Alexis De Tocqueville”

— D.R. Bell

When I arrived in Washington I witnessed firsthand the corrupting influence of money in our politics.

— Dean Phillips

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

— Publius Cornelius Tacitus

I've seen Congress do some remarkable things within a short period of time.

— Anthony Foxx

In a bureaucracy, they shoot the bull, pass the buck, and make seven copies of everything.

— Charles E. McKenzie

“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