Abraham Lincoln Quotes

I never will ascribe to this government [Liberal Party] such wrongdoing as mere stupidity will explain.

I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today.

A thief is more moral than a congressman; when a thief steals your money, he doesn't demand you thank him.

These Yankee politicians are the lowest race of thieves in existence.

This is what life is like with the Clintons. It is one scandal after another, and you never know what's coming next. They use the system to enrich themselves.

It makes me mad to see people in government serving themselves at our expense.

The Clintons engage routinely in corrupt practices, mixing their political power with their nonprofit work to make themselves rich, while not standing up for the little guy.

Donald Trump is an archetypal grifter. Using the presidency to promote your golf courses, hotels, and real estate business is grifting. So is getting people to pay a premium for buildings with your name in big, gold letters. Licensing your name is what every grifter dreams about.

To be sure, the Trump administration is shot through with corruption.

Ed Rogers is a career insider who has personally enriched himself off of what he decries.

The negative effects of greedy politicians have haunted the north-east for years; it's very apparent.

The Solyndra scandal occurred because of people with money who have influence and power.

It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is business as usual, politics of corruption.

I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.

Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.

True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister, to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement.

Have I given any symptoms of an avaricious disposition? Have I obtained any grants from the crown since I have been placed at the head of the treasury? Has my conduct been different from that which others in the same station would have followed?

The theory is that election to Congress is tantamount to being dispatched to Washington on a looting raid for the enrichment of your state or district, and no other ethic need inhibit the feeding frenzy.

The investigation has shown, let us hope, privilege at its worst. The trail is one of dishonesty, greed, violation of law, secrecy, concealment, evasion, falsehood, and cunning. It is a trail of betrayals by trusted and presumably honorable men--betrayals of a government, of certain business interests and the people who trusted and honored them; it is a trail showing a flagrant degree of the exercise of political power and influence, and the power and influence of great wealth upon individuals and political parties; it is the trail of despoilers and schemers, far more dangerous to the well-being of our Nation and our democracy than all those who have been deported

Any politician that can’t take people’s money and then turn around and screw them, doesn’t belong in the business.

Bill Clinton is the most corrupt, the most amoral, the most despicable person I've ever seen in the presidency.

The boss of all bosses operates like a shifty-eyed precinct captain on the make ... These are activities on would expect of a small-time ward heeler, not a figure of such influence and stature.

We have a cancer within, close to the Presidency, that is growing. It is growing daily.

I don't think that anybody is worse than a public official who sells his office and corrupts others.

The Reagan people want four more years, but the way they're going some of them will get ten to twenty.