Jaleel White Quotes

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.

It's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn't work for me.

Once you have power, you are inevitably surrounded by people who have their own agendas and will tell you whatever advances them.

This town was built on nepotism.

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

Getting an advantage at the expense of somebody else—that really is what graft is.

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

self-interest usually brings injustice with it.

And you know, almost in a perverse way, I wish it had been undue influence because we know how to correct that. We get rid of the people who, in fact, were exercising that.

When someone is trying to interpret something for you, they always have an agenda.

There's not a self-regulating group of nice fair-playing people in politics. There are a lot of dodgy people in politics.

Any time there is a lot of money or ego involved, people tend to behave badly.

There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.

Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.

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

As governor, I don't want my fair share. I want more than my fair share.

In politics, they play games. In Hollywood, they play games. I think that, overall, everybody is trying to do whatever it takes to get ahead.

All those men have their price.

Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical.

I've always believed everything was about protecting the Clinton power structure and anyone would be sacrificed who got in the way of that.

When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have two homes turns out to have nine himself no wonder the public believe politicians are hypocrites.

I don't think that sleeping with one of the owners gives you the advantages people think it does.

If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

People in Washington do things that they shouldn’t do because they owe somebody.