Jay Leno Quotes

There is no more important task in Washington than cleaning up the culture of corruption. Yet the president - whose White House has become the cradle of Republican corruption - is not taking responsibility for the costs of that corruption.

During my first term in Congress, I signed a pledge that I will take no more earmarks and I've been faithful to that pledge.

It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system.

The United States owe it to the world as well as to themselves to let the example of one government at least protect against the corruption which prevails.

History shows that more democracy is not a magic pill that will make institutionalized corruption will go away.

The only way to get rid of corruption in high places is to get rid of the high places.

There is nothing more frightening to a political satirist than an honest administration.

If there is corruption, it's because the political parties are weak.

He [previous President Uribe] has criticized this government for unveiling a lot of corruption: he thinks it is an attack on his government. But I have said no, it is not an attack on his government, it is an attack on the corrupt people, and I will continue to do that.

Term limits aren't enough. We need jail.

I'm pushing for citizen equality not because of some moral idea, but because this is the essential way to crack the corruption that now makes it so Washington can't work.

Hold us accountable. There's no accountability in Washington. Drain the swamp.

There aren’t many honest men or women in Washington anymore. Politicians get where they are by the sheer force of their egos, not their convictions. And you know what? It’s our fault as voters. We don’t demand better candidates, so we end up getting what we deserve—on both sides of the aisle.

Transparency in government leads to reduced corruption.

We need some honesty and sincerity instead of corrupt government in Washington.

I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing power than helping the people who sent them to Washington in the first place.

Fundamental problem in American democracy is that we are allowing congressmen and senators to be bought and sold like sneakers.

My contract with the American voter begins with a plan to end government corruption and to take our country back from the special interests. I want the entire corrupt Washington establishment to hear and heed the words. We're going to drain the swamp of corruption in Washington, D.C.

The elected officials should be working for the voters who elected them. Money corrupts the process. Why would you be giving a candidate money unless you expect something in return?

I'm going to fight for every person in America who believes government should serve the people, not the donors and not the special interests.

I would like to have an ample fund to spread the light of Republicanism, but I am willing to undergo the disadvantage to make certain that in the future we shall reduce the power of money in politics for unworthy purposes.

Since I've been in the Senate, is that my work with people like Tom Coburn on opening up transparency in government, making sure that every dollar the federal government spends that's out there - that that's all posted on a searchable database on the Internet.

The one thing the police cannot protect us from is a politician like Bill de Blasio.

I know nothing, by experience, of party discipline. I would rather be a raccoon-dog, and belong to a Negro in the forest, than to belong to any party, further than to do justice to all, and to promote the interests of my country. The time will and must come, when honesty will receive its reward, and when the people of this nation will be brought to a sense of their duty, and will pause and reflect how much it cost us to redeem ourselves from the government of one man.