Strom Thurmond Quotes

Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again it's the system - there are lots of nice, well-meaning people there. But it's a sleazy place. And politics is all about doing favors.

They were both obnoxious, drunk with their power …. they were the hatchet men of the Nixon administration, the killers, the psychopaths in residence

When you start attacking cronyism and people's political interests, it gets nasty.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions, and consequently of no use to a good king or a good ministry; for which reason Courts are so overrun with politics.

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

I've been able to see some very impressive people that are in politics, and I've been able to see a lot more people that are much less impressive that I don't know if I'd want to spend my life working with. When I see sort of how the sausage is made, it's not very pretty.

The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland.

There's not a self-regulating group of nice fair-playing people in politics. There are a lot of dodgy people in politics.

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

I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves.

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

There is this concept of politics as a dirty game.

No matter how you rearrange President Obama's inner circle, it still looks, smells and tastes like a rotten Chicago deep-dish pizza.

The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos and they sit back and they make deals. And they say okay, 'I'm going do this: France, you're getting the pipelines.'

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

Politics was just about as dirty in those days as it is now.

Either force or corruption has been the principle of every modern government.

The Mexican government has been corrupt for 140 years.

Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.

All governments are more or less corrupt.

In Washington, every closet has a revolving door.

Banana republics are run on cronyism.