Claude Rains Quotes

Politics is the most corrupt profession on Earth, no matter where you are.

I'm very interested in how corruption works - and it's not necessarily the way one might expect.

We must rid the country of corruption, cronyism and nepotism.

All governments are more or less corrupt.

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

There's corruption in many parts of the world.

Corrupt officials are usually close-mouthed and open-handed.

If you talk about corruption, you can talk about a lot of things in life.

Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises.

Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.

Corruption exists everywhere.

Public office must not be a means to profit or become rich.

As I watched some of the Watergate hearings I kept asking myself what all these people—[John] Dean and others—were doing there in the first place. Was there really an honest job that needed doing?

The Mexican government has been corrupt for 140 years.

Good men and women come to Washington and get caught in a culture of corruption.

The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.

Things such as corruption is a big thing in the ANC.

Nothing short of a federal investigation can begin to disclose the abuses which have woven a fine web of mutually implicating relationships between businessmen and government officials.

In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.

It is awful hard to get people interested in corruption unless they can get some of it.

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

According to Kim Jong-Il's biography, they say he has been constantly accused of dishonesty, drunkenness and sexual excess. So if he lived here, he could be in Congress.

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.