Quotes About Corruption

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because organized crime and politics were the same thing in Boston.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.

Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.

There they are. See no evil, hear no evil, and...evil.

If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Politics is made up of two words: "Poli," which is Greek for "many," and "tics," which are bloodsucking insects.

Economics and politics are the governing powers of life today, and that's why everything is so screwy.

Since politics — until recently — has been a man's world, men, as a whole are responsible for its corruption.

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Concerning politics: "The American media is like a watchdog who has developed an affection for the burglar."

As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.

Does anyone need yet another politician caught with his pants down and money sticking in his hole?

Now the sole remedy for the abuse of political power is to limit it; but when politics corrupt business, modern reformers invariably demand the enlargement of the political power.

Politics don't exist, actually. It's just a cheap business. Economics is what makes politics.

Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.

In U.S. politics, 'compassion' means giving money and privileges to well organized interest groups at everyone else's expense.

PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.