Ann Coulter Quotes

Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies, such a practice is frowned upon. Privileged access to the corridors of power through family connections and a kind of old boys' network, is also deemed an abuse of power, and so it is.

The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney's friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said 'Yes.'

The stimulus was a case of political patronage, corporate welfare, and cronyism at their worst.

This town was built on nepotism.

People in Washington do things that they shouldn’t do because they owe somebody.

Crony capitalism is not capitalism - it is cronyism.

The Clintons want to do big worthy things, but they also want to squeeze money from rich people wherever they live on planet Earth, insatiably gobbling up cash for politics and charity and themselves from the same incestuous swirl.

Modi government has not flouted any rule or regulation to help anyone.

I would argue that one of the issues which the public should be much more emphatic about with all politicians... is patronage, appointing people to high positions because they supported your campaign or helped you raise money.

President Junior is the mascot of crony capitalism.

Friendship is the most corrupting influence in politics.

We had less qualified trumping more qualified people just because of their political connections.

When in doubt, you bring in relatives. Nepotism is a part of my work.

People favouring their relatives more than an outsider is what the biggest fight in democracy is, let it be in film industry or politics.

Politics is a pure meritocracy. That's why Gordon Brown's cabinet had two brothers and a married couple in it. They just happened to be the best people around.

Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.

History's just been made for sale to an inside deal.

I believe that cronyism is nothing more than welfare for the rich and powerful, and should be abolished.

Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.

Honest Graft

Farmers who are legislators are the easiest to buy and seduce.

Getting an advantage at the expense of somebody else—that really is what graft is.

Those guys [congressmen] lived on the basis of getting their little tidbits and their perks.

The assumption has to be that members of Congress are, like eunuchs in a harem, physically incapable of a conflict of interest.

Government runs by clout. That's how it runs, by clout.