"Our form of democracy is bribery, on the…" — Gore Vidal
"Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale."
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Honesty stands at the gate and knocks, and bribery enters in.
— Barnabe Rich
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I don't think it's bribery; I think it's extortion. Bribery, you know, is when the person that's giving the money…
— John McCain
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But there will be no justice, there will be no government of the people, by the people, and for the…
— John Jay Hooker
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You could not bribe honest people, but bad people would accept bribery.
— Anne Holm
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Do not accept gifts; [because] that is bribery.
— Umar
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There is no trick of a magician or spell of a witch doctor, no drug or mesmerism or bribery or…
— Mike Mason
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A government with all this mass of favours to give or to withhold, however free in name, wields a power…
— John Stuart Mill
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The President of the United States would be liable to be impeached, tried, and upon conviction of treason, bribery, or…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by…
— Propertius
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I have tried my hand at bribery, blackmail, and deceit. And I've served time for everything, cept beggin on the…
— Bob Dylan
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Tis gold Which buys admittance--oft it doth--yea, and makes Diana's rangers false themselves, yield up This deer to th' stand…
— William Shakespeare
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