P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Some of the immediate causes of Jack Abramoff's troubles were some Indian elections that went bad for him.

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

We need 50 more Jack Abramoffs.

Hillary Clinton turned the State Department into her private hedge fund. The Russians, the Saudis, the Chinese - all gave money to Bill And Hillary and got favourable treatment in return.

With Jack Abramoff under indictment, a number of readers have suggested that now he might flip and try to offer the feds some figures higher up the food-chain.

Behind every corrupt politician are 10-20 corrupt businessmen.

It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought.

Corruption is the principle source of financing political parties..

You can’t have a corrupt lobbyist if you don’t have a corrupt Congressman or staff member…. It’s a team effort.

Tom Delay is a bag man for cigarette companies.

We do have endemic corruption, but most of it is not political.

I don't know why we need so many more prisons when the crooks seem so happy in the Senate.

Organized crime has a corrupting influence on all Bulgarian institutions including the government, parliament and judiciary. In an attempt to maintain their influence regardless of who is in power, organized crime figures dominate all the major political parties. As these figures have expanded into legitimate businesses, they have attempted—with some success—to buy their way into the corridors of power….

The Trump administration is shaping up to be one of the most corrupt since the Gilded Age.

Modi is shielding and encouraging fraud-accused persons such as Gali Janardhan Reddy and Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy. He is encouraging fraudsters, both directly and indirectly, and thereby helping open floodgates for corruption and frauds.

Where the grifter is shameless, the grafter shrinks from exposure, which could only endanger the racket. He is greedy but not creatively ambitious. He toils in mundane self-dealing, insider trading, bribe taking, witness tampering, and other forms of workaday corruption.

The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

I reiterate my proposal of creating life sentences for politicians who make deals with organized criminals. They deserve the maximum penalty because a politician that makes deals with criminals - I've said it, and I repeat it - is no longer a politician but just another 'capo.'

There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.

Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence.

About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because organized crime and politics were the same thing in Boston.

Political corruption is endemic all over this country, in some places worse than others, right? On crime, you have all the major American cities where the crime rates at different points in their histories, have spiked dramatically.

Too often, they play to whatever group is the loudest down at City Hall, and they buy them off, essentially.

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