Mark Twain Quotes

Today, there is a large scale corruption in Gujarat.

There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought.

For any politician who didn't enter office a wealthy man, nothing says 'I take bribes' like a Rolex watch.

The Philippines is a country in which a man of morals can't be president, in which a politician who hasn't been linked to any wrongdoing isn't assumed to be honest, but merely better at hiding his corruption.

Whether I'm reading a national publication or one of my local Chicago newspapers, I don't need to turn too many pages before I stumble upon another scandal. Not only do ethics violations deteriorate the public trust, but they also disrupt and undermine legitimate debate and policy.

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.

Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.

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

Political scandal has become devalued. There are so many of them.

The three things a Tammany leader most dreaded were in the ascending order of repulsiveness, the penitentiary, honest industry, and biography

A Vote for Davis & Bryan is a Vote Against Special Privilege. Remember Tea-Pot Dome.

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

Corruption is when people in public office use that public office for private or selfish ends. This is one of the most central debates in the last 40 years in law, what is corruption.

I look at the corruption in Albany and we cannot accept that.

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

If a politician takes a bribe to do what he thinks would have been best for the public anyway, he still goes to jail. If he's president, under a Constitution that refers to impeachment specifically for 'bribery,' as well other 'high crimes and misdemeanors,' he should still be removed.

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

You show me a politician with his heels ten feet in the air, and by Judas priest, Ill show you an honest politician.

Does anyone need yet another politician caught with his pants down and money sticking in his hole?

Keep your hands clean and pure from the infamous vice of corruption, a vice so infamous that it degrades even the other vices thatmay accompany it. Accept no present whatever; let your character in that respect be transparent and without the least speck, for as avarice is the vilest and dirtiest vice in private, corruption is so in public life.

American politicians do anything for money... English politicians take the money and won't do anything.

One year ago, on this occasion, I called your attention to the abuses that had crept into the distribution of our public funds, and I urged you and pleaded with you that, so far as the Church and its membership were concerned, we do not soil our hands with the bounteous outpouring of funds which the government was giving unto us. I renew that plea now. My brethren and sisters, for the sake of the government which we love, for the sake of the government which we believe was divinely inspired, be honest with it. Be honest, just ordinarily gold honest. That is all I ask.

The Judas of the West has closed the contract and will receive the thirty pieces of silver. . . . Was there ever witnessed such a bare faced corruption in any country before?

[Senator]Torricelli [D-NJ] will leave public office with just the clothes on his back, a Rolex watch and other assorted jewelry, a TV set, a couple of racks of Italian suits, some Jets tickets, a grandfather clock and three paper sacks filled with small, unmarked bills.

No money changed hands, of course.