Stephen Harper Quotes

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

The American people might have a criminal syndicate running their government.

The reality is I believe there has never been in the history of our White House such an unscrupulous pair as what I witnessed in this White House.

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

President Bush has urged people to get back to normal and today Congress announced that they are accepting bribes again.

Bob Torricelli, Democrat member of the Senate, was basically about to be thrown out of office on corruption charges, and he went to the floor of the Senate to deny everything. And we juxtaposed his denials with an attorney from someone in an action against Torricelli who was listing all of the gifts and all the bribes that Torricelli had been given and offered in exchange for policy considerations on the Senate floor. So he's on the Senate floor denying it.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany.

We have seen enough criminality on the part of government. It is hypocritical to make this allegation against me. They have narrowed the public sphere of influence.

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

This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.

And Oliver North was really a good soldier, up to the last moment, shoving memos into the shredder and defending the policy to the end.

People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.

I have never been bribed as a Prime Minister.

It was accountability that Nixon feared.

D.C. is more corrupt than Hollywood. It really is.

Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.

Palestinians are painfully aware that their government is rife with corruption.

It's hard to tell whether [Attorney General] Janet Reno is engaged in a cover-up or she's merely incompetent.

As much as Americans like to talk about local control, so many state and local governments are still so corrupt and uninspired.

The history of governments is one of the most immoral parts of human history.

The Mexican government has been corrupt for 140 years.

State and local government are more corrupt and less efficient than the federal government.

You roll back the stones and you find the slithering things of the world of Richard Nixon.

A government, … protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.