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Quotes About Corruption

The Three Branches of Government: Money, Television, and Bullshit
~ P. J. O'Rourke
There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.
~ Charles Bukowski
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
~ Will Rogers
Give me a man who steals a little and I can make money
~ Sam Giancana
There is no idol more debasing than the worship of money.
~ Andrew Carnegie
One can buy anything with money except morality.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Work harder, work longer, and earn less because the mafia needs your money.
~ Gerald Celente
It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.
~ Robert Byrd
Language is a virus, money is a nasty disease.
~ Jonathan Barnbrook
Money is the root of all evil. Yeah, money is the root. It's not racism and "this-ism" and "that-ism"; it's our thirst and hunger for money. And that's where all the bodies are buried.
~ Ice Cube
Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.
~ Robert H. Jackson
I think that money is the root of all evil. I've seen it happen.
~ Kato Kaelin
I see a government completely out of control, and money is number one. Integrity isn't even on the map.
~ Neil Young
The air is dirty because of the electricity monopolists. They have powerful money lobbyists.
~ Sam Wyly
When sincerity fails, the offer of money usually works.
~ Mark Fuhrman
Washington is a pool of money surrounded by people who want some.
~ David Brinkley
It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament.
~ Lewis H. Lapham
More people are bribed by their own money than anybody else's.
~ Jonathan Daniels
Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.
~ Matt Taibbi
Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no accountability in soft money. None.
~ Zach Wamp
That most delicious of all privileges - spending other people's money.
~ John Randolph of Roanoke
Washington is dominated by big money.
~ Bernie Sanders
Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.
~ Bill Bradley