"In every government on earth is some trace……" — Thomas Jefferson

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• Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of… — 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.… — Michele Bachmann
• He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Sherrod Brown

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