Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Putin sought to keep Ukraine weak through corruption.

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

We have the best government that money can buy.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

There’s no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, ‚The government’s corrupt,‘ and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with ‚what can I give‘ spirit.

A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP. It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to Americans a doctrine which is as old as mankind – the doctrine of racial division, the doctrine of racial prejudice, the doctrine of white supremacy.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges.

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

If the American people don’t love me, their descendants will.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen’s faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.

Corruption is just another form of tyranny.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Only Americans can hurt America.

To me, ideology is corrupt; it’s a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you’re an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you’re religious, there’s a mystery left there.

Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It’s a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia.

I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

Richard Nixon was an evil man – evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.

Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

The American people abhor a vacuum.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It’s self-defense. It’s patriotism.

The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

The term ‚the American Left‘ is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn’t really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.

The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

We’ve become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy. I think that’s been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards to the American political system that I’ve ever seen in my life.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

I’m sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.

I think the American people, with some justification, think that most politicians live in la-la land.

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.