Corrupt Politics Quotes

In these our cowardly times, we deny the grandeur of the Universal, and assert and glorify our local Bigotries, and so we cannot agree on much. In these our degenerate times, men bent on nothing but vainglory and personal gain- hollow, bombastic men for whom nothing is off-limits if it advances their petty cause- will claim to be great leaders and benefactors, acting in the common good, and calling all who oppose them liars, envious, little people, stupid people, stiff, and, in a precise reversal of the truth, dishonest and corrupt. ~ Salman Rushdie

Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country. ~ Bob Barr

In the hands of corrupt citizens democracy gives rise to a corrupt nation. ~ Abhijit Naskar

The corrupt begat corruption. ~ Steven Magee

Politics, it's all corrupt! ~ Steven Magee

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics. ~ Will.i.am

To befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business & corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

Nothing was as it seemed in Leo Koretz's make-believe world of mysterious syndicates and Panamanian oil fields. Accounts written long after his death added fresh layers of myth and distortion, but I was determined to learn the truth about a larger-than-life figure who rarely, if ever, told the truth. The real story of the man who pioneered and mastered the Ponzi scheme, is so gripping – and, at times, so incredible – that it needs no embellishment. And it's a story woven into the fabric of the corrupt politics and gang warfare that plagued Chicago in the 1920s. ~ Dean Jobb

The government of my country snubs honest simplicity but fondles artistic villainy, and I think I might have developed into a very capable pickpocket if I had remained in the public service a year or two. ~ Mark Twain

I deeply believe - and not just as a matter of politics, but even as a matter of morality - that matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm. They're moral decisions for individuals to make for themselves. And the last thing we need is government intruding into those personal decisions. ~ Tim Kaine

We all cry out that the world is corrupt,
and I fear too justly,
but we never reflect, what we have to thank for it, and that itis our open countenance of vice, which gives the lye to our private censures of it, which is its chief protection and encouragement. ~ Laurence Sterne

There is no difference between religion and politics. Both involve lies and fanatical beliefs that generaly defy logic ... Just like rock climbing. ~ David Schuller

Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values. ~ Jose Ortega Y Gasset

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

Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement. ~ Ronald Reagan

If children could vote, Jesse Jackson would be our next president. ~ Fred Allen

Membership of a larger group is not an identity. Being Asian is not an identity. Being gay is not an identity. Being deaf, blind, or wheelchair-bound is not an identity, nor is being economically deprived. ~ Lionel Shriver

He knew there were two kinds of truth in this world. The truth that was the unalterable bedrock of one's life and mission. And the other, malleable truth of politicians, charlatans, corrupt lawyers, and their clients, bent and molded to serve whatever purpose was at hand......The weight and guilt of possibly having made a horrible mistake so long ago was lifted.
It was Bosch who felt like the man proven innocent and released from a cage. ~ Michael Connelly

Politics is about a lot more than winning and losing. I think politics at its best is about compromise, shades of grey and about issues. ~ Matt Taibbi

Just because the Masses agree, doesn't make it True! ~ Somya Kedia

Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people. ~ Ted Cruz

All the systems which explain so precisely why the world is as it is and why it can never be otherwise, have always called forth in me the same kind of uneasiness one has when face to face with the regulations displayed under the glaring lights of a prison cell. Even if one had been born in prison and had never seen the stars or seas or woods, one would instinctively know of timeless freedom in unlimited space.

My evil star, however, had fated me to be born in times when only the sharply demarcated and precisely calculable where in fashion.... "Of course, I am on the Right, on the Left, in the Centre; I descend from the monkey; I believe only what I see; the universe is going to explode at this or that speed" - we hear such remarks after the first words we exchange, from people whom we would not have expected to introduce themselves as idiots. If one is unfortunate enough to meet them again in five years, everything is different except their authoritative and mostly brutal assuredness. Now they wear a different badge in their buttonhole; and the universe now shrinks at such a speed that your hair stands on end. ~ Ernst Junger

Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws. ~ Bob Dylan

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

I have learnt from the politics of my great country, Nigeria that there is nothing wrong with the heads of states, but there is something wrong with the state of the heads. ~ Ogwo David Emenike

I have made it quite clear that a unified Ireland was one solution that is out. A second solution was a confederation of two states. That is out. A third solution was joint authority. That is out-that is a derogation of sovereignty. ~ Margaret Thatcher

What does it matter who is ruler of a realm that no longer exists? ~ Krishna Udayasankar

A very small number of non-Christians, including those with radical anti-Christian agendas, have been able to control and manipulate the civil politics of America with little or no opposition. ~ Rick Scarborough

Unjust rule does not last forever. ~ Seneca The Younger

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether. ~ Lord Byron

President Obama recently said that his day is all about politics, so in the mornings he likes to watch ESPN. So if you get the feeling he's repeating himself every half hour, that's where he learned it from. ~ Jimmy Fallon

There's nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague. ~ Alan Clark

People are fed up with the politics where candidates just rip each other apart and then the voters lose in the end because no one really knows what anybody stands for. ~ Dennis Kucinich

How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics? ~ William Butler Yeats

Control over the production and distribution of oil is the decisive factor in defining who rules whom in the Middle East. ~ Christopher Hitchens

Enter the candidates on horseback: While military leaders can sometimes be dangerous in politics, our best generals and admirals embody the democratic values and leadership skills for which the country is yearning. ~ David Ignatius

I had a new idea on the way to this meeting this morning, but that doesn't mean we should put it in the platform. ~ Michael D. Barnes

[A]s it is impossible that any man endowed with rational faculties, and being in a state of freedom, should willingly agree, without some motive of love or friendship, absolutely to sacrifice his own interest to that of another; it becomes necessary to impose upon him, to persuade him, that his own good is designed, and that he will be a gainer by coming into those schemes, which are, in reality, calculated for his destruction. And this, if I mistake not, is the very essence of that excellent art, called the art of politics. ~ Henry Fielding

The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place. ~ John G. Diefenbaker

How does a guy like Bart afford a boat like this? Does bigotry pay that well? ~ Mark M. Bello

O, how easy it would appear to be to live in simplicity and love, and yet how difficult it is for our corrupt hearts to live in love! ~ John Of Kronstadt

He asks how the evil is to be remedied. I tell him that there seems to be little chance for avoiding the extremes of despotism or anarchy; that the only ground of hope must be the morals of the people, but that these are, I fear, too corrupt. ~ Gouverneur Morris

The sanction of force stands behind the medley of personal orders and regulations of Martial Law. The sanction of the people's consent stands behind the hierarchy of laws. In one situation, the population is regimented into acquiescence. In the other, the population voluntarily establishes a contract with Parliament. For this reason, one is called a regime and the other, a government. Martial law rests on the sanction of force and not on the sanction of law. ~ Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

The invasion of Iraq was illegal from the start. ~ Walter Cronkite

Consensus politics means that you cannot afford to give the many-headed beast, the public, anything to vote against, for voting against is what gargantuan pseudodemocracy has to come down to. ~ Germaine Greer

Decisions to cut aid for the terminally ill, for the elderly, for dependent children, for food stamps, even school lunches, are being made by men with full stomachs who live in comfortable houses with two cars and umpteen tax shelters. None of them go hungry to bed at night. ~ Audre Lorde