Quotes About Corruption

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

We got a lot of politicians up there on Capital Hill. Ain't it funny how they prosper while the country stands still?

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Politics and church are the same. They keep the people in ignorance.

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can't remember what the second one is.

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.

Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?

Steal a little and they throw you in jail Steal a lot and they make you king.

I don't have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.

There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse.

After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

America has the best politicians money can buy.

Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.

The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended to produce a very unhealthy condition.

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

I think the big problem is you have a vicious cycle of wealth and power in America that's just gotten completely out of control and you've seen it in politics.

I cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government.

Under every stone lurks a politician.