Paul Manafort Quotes

New disclosures were made showing again how Hillary Clinton's pay for play works.Saudi Arabia paid Bill Clinton a lot of money to make a speech and then got an arms deal from Hillary and her State department that they were unable to get.

The lure of post-public service lobbying employment needs to be eliminated.

I didn't get a phone call from Bill Clinton before I jumped in the race ... maybe it's because I hadn't given money to the foundation or donated to his wife's senate race.

If you chose to serve in Congress or on a congressional staff, you should be barred for life from working for any company, organization, or association which lobbies the federal government.

One thing is perfectly clear: We don't need another China crony in the White House!

I understand why foreign government contributions to the Clinton Foundation could raise ethical issues should Hillary run for president.

It is impossible to figure out where the Clinton Foundation ends and the State Department begins.

You can't run this damned county any other way ... than to say politics stops at the seaboard.

For the sake of advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.

When a public official accepts a gift he dissolves the pearl of independence in the vinegar of obligation.

In 1985 five Senators had received contributions from Lincoln Savings and Loan, and had interceded on the bank's behalf with federal regulators. The same request was made of the governor who refused. You don't intervene in the regulatory process. It's law enforcement. It's like a parent ... calling the police chief to say, "Don't touch my kid." It's wrong. [The Senators' efforts delayed the closure of the bank, costing the taxpayers billions of dollars.

Members of state legislatures are owned by doctors and lawyers. That's why workers' compensation cannot be solved.

Honorariums are really dishonorariums. So long as they continue, public trust in Congress will sink even below its minimal level today.... Public officials should have only one paymaster: the Government. When the Government pays too little, the temptation to find other paymasters becomes far harder to resist.

There's no way you can depend on the Attorney General of the United States to investigate high government officials.

When you buy a Presidential candidate, you buy his party and you buy 20,000 appointees you never heard of.

Twenty years ago, outside income was a means of keeping the Congress a citizen legislature. Today, outside income is a corrupting influence.

Since the breakdown of party discipline, lobbyists have been able to pick off those members [of Congress] most strapped for cash.

Say no to politicians who sacrifice the interests of individual investors to corporate interests.

The Department of State has become a concession hunting agency for the Standard Oil Company

One of the nice things about no longer being Secretary of State is that I can actually answer your questions.

Unfortunately, public officials are largely controlled by the very corporations against which they should proceed.

Corporate power in the political process is a reality.... Why violate the law by bribing public officials when there are legal and more traditional methods of persuasion that are more effective? Among these methods are campaign contributions, advertising, lobbying, and government-business job exchanges.

Donations to political parties, candidates and elected officials should not be a means to gain personal or policy favours or buy access to politicians or civil servants…. Political parties, candidates and politicians should disclose assets, income and expenditure to an independent agency.

When the [political] clubhouse gets control of the seat of government, invariably the private interest outweighs the public interest, and corruption sets in.

And when the guy [politician] says “Yes, I took money, but it didn’t influence my vote”? Oh, come on. The company that’s giving you the money thinks it is going to influence the vote. Why else would they give you the money?