Quotes About Corruption

Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics.

The meanest and most hateful thing about money is that it even gives one talent.

I wouldnt want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.

Love of money is the mother-city (metropolis) of all evils.

Speech doesn't corrupt. Money corrupts, and money isn't speech.

What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even confers talent. And it will do so until the end of the world.

Money has a certain kind of amnesty.

People can so easily be tempted by slackness... and by money.

Money in politics is a huge issue.

Printing currency for foreigners to buy is the best racket a government can get into.

I don't take PAC money. I don't take special interest money.

[Yahya Khan] thought of nothing but acquiring beautiful cars, building beautiful homes, making friends with bankers, and sending money abroad.

Money doesn't talk. It screams.

Big Money politicians do not have a new form of entitlement. They do not own our votes.

The elected officials should be working for the voters who elected them. Money corrupts the process. Why would you be giving a candidate money unless you expect something in return?

Secret bank accounts are for laundering dirty money. Heads of state at the UN should put an end them. That would be the best way of tracking down the drug traffickers.

Where's there's money involved, there are no good guys.

Money, so they say, is the root of all evil today. But if you ask for a rise it's no surprise that they're giving none away.

Surely there never was so evil a thing as money, which maketh cities into ruinous heaps, and banisheth men from their houses, and turneth their thoughts from good unto evil.

How can a bureaucrat or a politician be trusted if he says loud words for the sake of Russia's good while trying to take his funds, his money abroad?

The democratic process is supposed to be one person one vote, but it turns out that money is talking louder than the votes.

Money has much more power down the ballot.

The smaller the office, the more power individuals with big money have.

Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians take it out