Don Nickles Quotes

The endless money chase has given the appearance of corrupting government.

The cold grasp of corruption shackles the District of Columbia.

In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.

In 2004, I wrote 'What We've Lost,' a book about the Bush administration. It sold only reasonably well, in part, I think, because the book was a horrific downer, an unrelenting account of the administration's actions, bungles, deceptions, half-truths, untruths, and downright corruptions.

If people are going to be cooking the books, you're in trouble.

Any crooked bookkeeper's books are balanced.

The investigation has shown, let us hope, privilege at its worst. The trail is one of dishonesty, greed, violation of law, secrecy, concealment, evasion, falsehood, and cunning. It is a trail of betrayals by trusted and presumably honorable men--betrayals of a government, of certain business interests and the people who trusted and honored them; it is a trail showing a flagrant degree of the exercise of political power and influence, and the power and influence of great wealth upon individuals and political parties; it is the trail of despoilers and schemers, far more dangerous to the well-being of our Nation and our democracy than all those who have been deported

… massive waste, fraud and abuse

All governments are more or less corrupt.

With money we will get partisans, with partisans votes, and with votes money, is the maxim of our political pilferers.

It is too early to tell where Mobutu will draw the line between corruption and the ‘normal’ use of payments and patronage to facilitate operations.

I believe there is nothing which can be done to restrain these frivolous Presidential expenditures because Mobutu has apparently risen in soufflé-like grandiloquence…. to call his attention to the dangers of this type of thing … would be to incur instant wrath…. It is the most serious problem facing Congo at present time and the fault is that of the President [Mobuto] and the uncontrollable spending is coming from him.

They spend us into the dirt and lie like crazy, and, my gosh, I have never seen an opponent who just lies like he's taking a drinking of water like Terry McAuliffe. It is nothing to him.

Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them.

Right here at home, we have seen what happens when a politician breaks that public trust, when they are dishonest and corrupt.

One of the biggest curses from which India is suffering - I do not say that other countries are free from it, but I think our condition is much worse - is bribery and corruption. That really is a poison.

What we've seen in government for so often is that people have been shady - about their roles, hiding things, not releasing things.

Corruption is found everywhere. I admit there is some corruption in my staff - not me.

Jyoti Basu is the biggest fraud, cheat, and con man in West Bengal.

If I were living in France, I'd vote for Jacques Chirac, despite the fact that he can't seem to keep his hands out of the cash till.

I come from a state where four governors have gone to jail since I've been alive. Two of my last four predecessors in this seat went to jail or are going to jail.

Despite all the hoopla - despite all the umpa - after 5 years of UDP mismanagement, corruption, and incompetence, we have sunk deeper into debt of $2.4 billion: some $200 million deeper in debt.

Corruption is when people in public office use that public office for private or selfish ends. This is one of the most central debates in the last 40 years in law, what is corruption.

What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt.

Expenditures have gone rampant in Puerto Rico: lack of accountability - total lack of accountability.