Quotes About Corruption

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

Politics never takes a holiday in Chicago.

Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit

Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.

Politics has become unbelievably and unfortunately way too much about how much money is involved rather than what kind of ideas are involved.

We all joke about Congress but we can't improve on them. Have you noticed that no matter who we elect, he is just as bad as the one he replaces?

Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.

It gave dirty politics a bad name.

Paper money will invariably operate in the body of politics as spirit liquors on the human body. They prey on the vitals and ultimately destroy them

There's a tendency, especially among academics, to see politics as deeply dirty and deeply egotistical.

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Politics is the shadow cast on society by big business.

A politician... one that would circumvent God.

Politics is never about the people. It's about money. And wars. And how many heads you can step on and bodies you can step over. And I'm just not that kind of person.

Big Business and Politics are twins, they are the monsters who kill everything, corrupt everything.

Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.

Barack Obama said today that politics has become too gummed up by money and influence ... and then he had to leave to attend a fundraiser.

The mixing of politics and business not only is detrimental to politics, as is frequently observed, but even much more so to business.

The Democrats and the Republicans are equally corrupt where money is concerned. It's only in the amount where the Republicans excel.

I have always noticed in politics how often men are ruined by having too good a memory.

Experience has taught that politics is a game played by conmen and hypocrites.

It was as dark as the inside of a cabinet minister.

Money is the original sin in politics and I am not sinless.