Quotes About Bribery

To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.

Only criminals want to use cash.

A bag of dragons buys a man's silence for a while, but a well-placed quarrel buys it forever.

It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had.

More people are bribed by their own money than anybody else's.

Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life.

Washington's a cesspool of money.

Laws go where dollars please.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

I never bought a man who wasn't for sale.

We have the best Congress money can buy.

As to the power which money gives, it is that of brute force, it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet, and of the bribed press, tongue and pen.

On 18 December 1772, the directors of the East India Company were summoned to the Houses of Parliament. There they were fiercely examined by General John Burgoyne's Select Committee, which had been set up to investigate EIC abuses in India, and particularly accusations of embezzlement and bribe-taking. Charges of corruption were levelled against several EIC servants

in total around £1,238,575 was given by Mir Jafar to the Company and its servants, which included at least £170,000 personally for Clive. In all, perhaps £2.5 million was given to the Company by the Murshidabad Nawabs in the eight years between 1757 and 1765 as 'political gifts'. Clive himself estimated the total payments as closer to 'three million sterling'.

Upon the exposure of his bribery, it is reported he said, "I should have paid more.

growing. It's growing daily." He detailed the large sums of hush money

Just as the United States had managed to largely get rid of the problem of political corruption by making the bribery of legislators effectively legal (it was redefined as "lobbying")

If bribery is good enough for Congress, it's good enough for me.

Nothing corrupts a politician quite as much as friendship. Good politicians don't bribe; they make us like them.

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.

Honesty stands at the gate and knocks, and bribery enters in.

You could not bribe honest people, but bad people would accept bribery.

Even I realized that money was to politicians what the eucalyptus tree is to koala bears: food, water, shelter, and something to crap on.