Han Fei Quotes

Karnataka was known for its good governance. After the BJP came to power, they laid the foundation for bad administration.

It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts.

The worst thing for a politician is to try and cling to power by every possible means, and focus only on that.

Governments are run by people. People can be bad.

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

More coming out about Saddam Hussein. We now know he takes Viagra and he has as many as six mistresses. No wonder Congress is reluctant to take action against this guy - he's one of their own.

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

If he be not impeachable whilst in office, he will spare no efforts or means whatever to get himself reelected.

The People will have unfounded Power. And the People are extremely addicted to Corruption and Venality, as well as the Great. I am not without Apprehensions from this Quarter.

There is no horror, no cruelty, sacrilege, or perjury, no imposture, no infamous transaction, no cynical robbery, no bold plunder or shabby betrayal that has not been or is not daily being perpetrated by the representatives of the states, under no other pretext than those elastic words, so convenient and yet so terrible: “for reasons of state.”

National security is like that vague term Executive privilege. Both terms have been abused; both concepts have been damaged; they've been used as shields for secrecy.

Aging leaders have put their own survival ahead of their reason for being and above that of the institution they serve.

No state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.

basically, the more power politicians have, the hornier they get

In a free government, the few, finding their schemes and views of interest borne down by the many, to gain the power they cannot constitutionally obtain, always endeavor to get it by cunning and corruption, conscious at the same time that usurpation, when once begun, the safety of the usurper consists only in grasping the whole.

When a man once gets a start holding office, it is nearly always necessary to finally choke him off.

I believe that every leader has a right to implement his own policy. But when I see things that are done that are not right - abuse of power, wrong approaches, wrong strategies, making use of foreign consultants, including those discarded by other countries - I feel that I have to have my say.

Nixon clearly broke laws. He clearly believed he needed to stay in power to protect the country. But he recognized that he was breaking the law, and he tried to cover it up.

Shaktikanta Das being appointed as RBI Governor is wrong. He has worked closely in corrupt activities with P. Chidambaram and even tried to save him in court cases.

Even God can't save Tamil Nadu if Jayalalithaa comes back to power again.

It is impossible to deny that people in power face more temptations than ordinary citizens.

To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.

Beware the abuse of Power. Both by those we disagree with, as well as those we may agree with

Modi is a disgrace to the prime minister's post.