Geoffrey Garin Quotes

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

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

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

We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.

The quicker we get rid of the lobby system the better for all of us. I don't think in this day and age it is tenable to have these nods and winks, and on-the-record and off-the-record briefings.

I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.

I don't think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.

We need reform. We need more transparency between those who lobby us and ourselves in the Congress.

Tom Delay is a bag man for cigarette companies.

Farm subsidies are bribes for votes.

I am willing to undergo the disadvantage in order to make certain that in the future we shall reduce the power of money in politics..

I've been concerned about ethics in government for a long time. And the problems we've had under President Trump are only indicative of the longer-term problem of the erosion of public office and government.

Politicians have been the primary hurdle to reforms, and corruption is the center of the problem.

In post-Vietnam, post-Watergate America, skeptical voters demand full disclosure of everything from candidates' finances to their medical records, and spin-savvy accounts of backstage machinations dominate political coverage.

You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip.

Washington's a cesspool of money.

People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.

The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.

What we have now is a situation where politicians get a whole bunch of money from mainly business interests. Then once they hold that office, they spend all their time in office paying back over and over again those campaign contributions through various favors and contracts and that sort of thing.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don't know now either.

The Philippines is a country in which a man of morals can't be president, in which a politician who hasn't been linked to any wrongdoing isn't assumed to be honest, but merely better at hiding his corruption.

It starts with campaign finance reform.