Bernadette Devlin Quotes

It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is business as usual, politics of corruption.

The biggest drawback to democracy, he explained, is that elected representatives may not consider good governance their objective and may seek to usurp the electoral process in order to satisfy their own interests—and this unfortunately tarnishes the democratic ideal.

Something that confirms all fears and many conspiracy theories about government is finding out what our elected representatives would put into law if they could.

It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

Governments are run by people. People can be bad.

More coming out about Saddam Hussein. We now know he takes Viagra and he has as many as six mistresses. No wonder Congress is reluctant to take action against this guy - he's one of their own.

When the Lord Chancellor violates the trust of his great office of state to solicit party donations from people whose careers he can control, and then says I'm not sorry, and I'd do it again no wonder the public think that power has gone to their heads.

Sometimes, the biggest sin you can commit in [Washington] DC is to tell the truth. This may not be politically correct, but I think that there was a big part of this investigation that was designed to go after people and an individual, Hillary Clinton.

If he be not impeachable whilst in office, he will spare no efforts or means whatever to get himself reelected.

People understand that the real threats to the integrity and dignity of Parliament are its elected members.

Most of us in Congress steal our speeches.

basically, the more power politicians have, the hornier they get

The great Government we loved has too often been made use of for private and selfish purposes.

The demagogue is the curse of the modern world, and of all the demagogues, The worst are those financed by well-meaning wealthy men who sincerely believe that their wealth is likely to be safer if they can hire men with political "it

Mr. Watson belongs to that school of southern Populists who honestly believe that the respectable and commonplace people who own banks, railroads, dry goods stores, factories, and the like, are persons of mental and social attributes that unpleasantly distinguish Heliogabalus, Nero, Caligula, and other worthies of later Rome.... If he got the chance he would lash the nation with a whip of scorpions

The people who I serve believe that the means by which I came to office corrupt me.

It was and is one of the evils of our state, that personal infamy is no bar to the exercise of political rights; that a man may walk out of jail and take his seat in the highest places even as a legislator.

If it were true that special favors were given to some of these people because they are my cronies, then they should still be here, and they should be wealthy. But who are these cronies? If there be any cronies in government, point them out, and we will investigate.

We have a lot of bad leaders around the world that operate in ways we would never tolerate in the United States.

Politicians remain in power although they violate the rules.

It is impossible to deny that people in power face more temptations than ordinary citizens.

What type of politics is the Congress practising, wherein its leaders commit the sin of looting money meant for the welfare of pregnant women and poor children?

Some people in India want to increase corruption and dishonesty in the name of caste.

I have taken advantage of my husband, to the extent that I even got HBO to do a documentary with me.