Quotes About Corruption

Half of Japan still couldn't tell the difference between crime and politics.

Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.

The Afghan government is as corrupt as a prostitute with a law degree.

People who give money in large amount in politics are basically not altruistic.

Will Rogers once said it is not the original investment in a Congressman that counts; it is the upkeep.

Hell is full of high court judges.

We will meet our challenges head on and we will do it by rejecting the politics of mediocrity and corruption. You voted for change; I intend to deliver it. ... I will govern as a reformer.

Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now.

Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.

Anyone who does not understand the utter cynicism of politics does not understand politics.

I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.

All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spitoons.

Rome had senators too, and that is why it declined.

Corruption of politics has nothing to do with the morals, or the laxity of morals, of various political personalities. Its cause is altogether a material one.

There aren't many idealists in politics.

It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself.

A man never stoops so low as when he rises to the challenge of politics.

There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.

When politics is elevated over business, economic disaster follows.

I looked up the word POLITICS in the dictionary, and it's actually a combination of two words: poli, which means 'many,' and tics, which means 'bloodsuckers.'

I think the world of politics is pretty sleazy.

The tendency of the UN and its major supporters is to think good intentions and mild to rampant corruption are as good as actual results.