N. Chandrababu Naidu Quotes

When a member of Congress has a leadership PAC, he can be legally bribed by making donations to the PAC because when the member of Congress retires or is voted out of office, he is allowed to use the leadership PAC money that remains for his and his family’s personal expenses.

If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.

Corruption is the principle source of financing political parties..

No politician ever admits where all his money comes from.

It is now clear that giving to a candidate’s PAC is equivalent to giving to his campaign; the leaders of the PAC are, for all practical purposes, are the campaign’s bag men.

Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them.

Saddam Hussein's trial would not be public since he could name countries and persons whom he gave money.

We have to get rid of the constant fundraising that happens inside the Congress. Before, political parties used to raise money; now, individual members are raising money through the DCCC and the RCCC. It is absolutely corrupt.

Actually criminal sanctions that are given could be up to five years for violating the rules and regulations under the campaign finance reform. This is like the Alien and Sedition Act of years and years ago, decades ago.

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

They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. They have loaded the nation, the state, the county, and the city with debt.

A figure who receives money from abroad for his political work, and thus serves some foreign interest, cannot be a politician in Russia.

The AFL-CIO giving money to the Democratic Party has all the appearances of dinosaurs mating.

When the legislature is corrupted, the people are undone.

If you're on Banking or the Finance Committee, you don't even have to open your mouth. They'll throw money at you over the transom.

In many cases they [members of congress] go outside their district [to raise money.] They in effect trade policy positions for money. Then they go back to their districts and use the money to run campaigns on a nonpolicy basis.

A politician taking campaign money from gamblers in Nevada is like one taking campaign money from the auto people in Michigan. Gambling is our legal business.

We need 50 more Jack Abramoffs.

The spree of big money campaigning—and the corruption that goes with it—seems guaranteed to worsen …. Campaign money handlers will keep pushing the limits wherever and however they can—and the integrity of our electoral system will pay the price.

Abramoff did not own me, but we did engage in the culture of corruption together.

There will be more [political] scandals. There is too much money around …. It is legal for an American subsidiary corporation owned by the Chinese Army to make a major contribution to an American political party.

Formerly, in every campaign, national, state, or local, the office-holders were assessed all round, as a matter of course. The party committees, after consultations with the heads of departments, notified office holders outright what amount--usually about two per cent of their salary -they would be expected to pay; and at the appointed day they marched up, paid, and got their receipts.

The endless money chase has given the appearance of corrupting government.

At a time when concerns about the conduct of judicial elections have reached a fever pitch, the court today unleashes the floodgates of corporate and union general treasury spending in these races.

The use of billions of dollars to fund election campaign and pay lobbyists to author legislation is not politics. It is legalized bribery.