Francis Bacon Quotes

Most of us in Congress steal our speeches.

It takes two to corrupt – the corrupted and the corrupter.

Politics is so corrupt that even the dishonest people get fucked.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

I think all politicians lie.

The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.

If people want to get into leadership through corrupt practices, through corrupt means, I think that's detestable; we have to take action.

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

Once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe your own lies.

It defies all common sense to send that roughneck ward politician back to the White House.

Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Our representatives are betrayers of the people.

All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.

There is hardly a single person in the House of Commons worth painting; though many of them would be better for a little whitewashing.

If you do not know how to lie, cheat and steal, turn your attention to politics and learn.

One of our statesmen said, "The curse of this country is eloquent men.

the craftiest and most dishonest politician who ever disgraced an office in America.

If the chief party ... be corrupt, you must follow their humor and indulge them, and in that case honesty and virtue are pernicious.

… a lying crook in the Presidency