Quotes About Corruption

The role of money in politics is terrible, particularly when you're running for president. You get a handful of billionaires who can basically buy the White House.

You roll back the stones, and you find slithering things. That is the world of Richard Nixon.

The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.

Paralysis of leadership is due in part to the unseen grip of the special interests.

I think it's a terrible system, but money in politics is like water running downhill -- it finds its way.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions, and consequently of no use to a good king or a good ministry; for which reason Courts are so overrun with politics.

The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.

The senator...was a smart man who had made his way in life with a single-mindedness oblivious to any of those stumbling blocks known as conscience, sworn oaths, justice, duty...

Most politicians lie for the same reason a monkey swings by his tail, which is to say because he can.

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy "Dear Jack: Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide."

Party-spirit . . . which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

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

You can't separate desperate politicians from violence and trouble.

oh, what a democracy MY PRIME MINISTER IS CORRUPT

If a politician wins in a dirty way at election, he will sat in position and works with corruption.

Where justice if negotiable, filthiness becomes delectable

Money is the mother's milk of politics.

There is so much wrong with the world. (tanta stat praedita culpa)

Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.

Power will be maintained by the groovy guy or gal who gets the most media coverage for his sleaze. Naturally, his friends in various businesses will do okay, too.

The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.

The dirty alliance between religious preachers and possessors of power brought the boon of prisons, gallows, knouts and above all such theories for the mankind.

Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, . . . its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote.

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.