Mike Quigley Quotes

Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence.

The real cost of corruption in government, whether it is local, state, or federal, is a loss of the public trust.

There's some criminals that wear badges. Guess what? There's some criminals that work in the media. There's some criminals that are football coaches. There's some criminals that are politicians. There are criminals that work in churches.

My job is to not take for granted when somebody says, 'Oh, this is all just a made-up, phony scandal,' or, 'What this person did put the U.S. government at risk.'

As Members of Congress, we should not be using public office for private gain.

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.

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

The new political gospel: public office is private graft.

PUBLIC SERVANT: Persons chosen by the people to distribute the graft.

Sex scandals, while embarrassing, are far less depressing than financial corruption. I would way rather have an important elected official who patronized prostitutes than one who spent $60,000 of the taxpayers’ money on sushi and lobster.

New York is having awful corruption scandals. The charges involve politicians acting in such an insanely stupid way, it shatters our longstanding confidence that taking money was the one thing they know how to do well.

I initiated the State's investigation of Governor Blagojevich and have prosecuted public officials, including a sitting democratic state representative and democratic State's Attorney.

Corruption is when a politician uses public funds to deliver pistachio ice cream to his home and transfer garden furniture to his Caesarea villa, then requesting that the expenses be covered for the water in his pool and fights to get a private jet.

The Trump administration is shaping up to be one of the most corrupt since the Gilded Age.

New York... where people come for their Ph.D. in corruption.

Modi is shielding and encouraging fraud-accused persons such as Gali Janardhan Reddy and Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy. He is encouraging fraudsters, both directly and indirectly, and thereby helping open floodgates for corruption and frauds.

We encourage whistleblowers to come forward in instances where the government is a victim.

The day corruption charges are levelled against me, I would retire and sit at home.

Right here at home, we have seen what happens when a politician breaks that public trust, when they are dishonest and corrupt.

Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.

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

Corruption exists everywhere.

We do many things at the federal level that would be considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector.

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.

The American people might have a criminal syndicate running their government.