The Great Khali Quotes

Power is always a corrupting influence.

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

Under every stone lurks a politician

Power is always dangerous. It attracts the worst and corrupts the best..

Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.

The American people do not begrudge anyone his or her power until they start abusing it.

I think all politicians lie.

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it.

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

The electorate suspects and distrusts men of superb intellect …

Bull permeates everything.... American people think politics and politicians are full of baloney.

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

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes.

Politics is a sucker’s game …

Resist the temptation to exploit power for personal or group interests.

The very existence of the Nation was threatened. Threatened on all sides, from the interior and exterior. From the interior, by the sterile conflicts of politicians who sacrificed the country and their compatriots to their own interests. Nothing counted for them but power...and what the exercise of power could bring them. Fill their own pockets, exploit the Congo and the Congolese, this was their trademark. Given such examples, both national and provincial administrations were mired in inertia, inefficiency, and worse yet, corruption. At all levels, many of those in our country who held a morsel of public power allowed themselves to be corrupted, served individuals and companies who paid bribes and neglected the others... ...certain politicians, to maintain themselves in power or to regain it, did not hesitate to seek help from foreign powers... ...the social, economic and financial situation of the country is catastrophic

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

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

I have flatly refused to be conned by Jyoti Basu and his corrupt government.

It's unbearable to see the people betrayed time and again by politicians who don't keep their promises and by the technocrats at the European Union.

Whenever there is money, power, and titles involved, players are going to be corrupt. That might be a political statement, but that's what it is for the athletes, too.

Abuse of power comes as no surprise

Politicians are leeches, mostly.

Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.