Bribe Quote by Michael Parenti

“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

The Founding Fathers were truly some of the most gifted thinkers in history. They understood that power could be used to corrupt.

— Trish Regan

The rich and the well-born, according to the Federalist Papers, was greatly feared by the founders.

— John Jay Hooker

“After a series of campaign scandals involving secret donations from the newly rich industrial barons in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Progressives…

— Jane Mayer

Indeed, bribery, favoritism, and corruption in a great variety of forms were rampant not only in politics, but in all levels of society.

— David McCullough

Politics is corrupting the American judicial system in much the same way the judicial system was corrupted in Nazi Germany.

— Benjamin Carson

The core of the concept of a bribe is an inducement improperly influencing the performance of a public function meant to be gratuitously exercised.

— Peggy Noonan

“In Montana in the 1890s, as in the United States in the 2010s, the laws were loose enough to allow men of means to…

— Bill Dedman

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

— Dean Phillips

The federal government views the Constitution as its enemy.

— Andrew Napolitano

The American Constitution was designed to make it hard to have too much government.

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“The Congressmen and Senators themselves had seen to it that bribery was the only way of doing business with them. Frequently they would introduce…

— Hugh Brogan