Jonathan Turley Quotes

In Washington's highly politicized world, the greatest risk is not that a program will perform poorly, but that a scandal will erupt. Scandals are front page news, while routine failure is ignored.

Washington is a cesspool of non-accountability.

One thing I congratulate everyone on is the great explosion which has occurred in Washington's Black House and the very important scandal which has gripped leaders of America.

Louisiana showed up at the top of a study of political corruption that calculated the number of convictions per capita. Georgia came out as worst on a corruption risk report from the State Integrity Investigation, which measured factors like accountability, transparency and ethics enforcement.

In my experience in Washington, when people refuse to come clean, it is usually because they are hiding dirty laundry.

As so often happens with Washington scandals, it isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up.

Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

Washington's a cesspool of money.

People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.

Everyone needs to understand that my work addresses existing problems, and one of the crucial problems in Russia today is corruption.

If it takes talking about unpleasant truths to change Washington, then so be it.

I don't think we've asked the right questions, the tough questions, at the right time, in Washington.

I'm the only honest person in Washington.

Unfortunately, in American politics there are no standards for shame.

I would love to do an unauthorized biography about Congress... It's like a secret society up there.

It was accountability that Nixon feared.

Surely we don’t want the President to lie, we don’t want our senators to lie, we don’t want our congressmen to lie. But sometimes they do.

There will be scandals. There will be scandals. And then maybe we can reform again.

The real scandal in Washington is not what is against the law. It is what is not against the law.

To have you turn your searchlight on Washington politics is better than anything our guardian angel could do for us—on earth at least.

In Washington, and wherever two or more politicians may gather, he who does not get caught has ‘character’ and he who gets caught has none..

What we've seen in government for so often is that people have been shady - about their roles, hiding things, not releasing things.

Show me a supposedly 'unfixable' problem in Washington, and I'll show you the political corruption standing in the way.

The career politicians down in Washington don't want to be held accountable.