George Clooney Quotes

We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland.

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

It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men.

It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is business as usual, politics of corruption.

I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.

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

Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again it's the system - there are lots of nice, well-meaning people there. But it's a sleazy place. And politics is all about doing favors.

About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because organized crime and politics were the same thing in Boston.

New Orleans reminds me of Romania because New Orleans is very corrupt politically.

Politics was just about as dirty in those days as it is now.

The boss of all bosses operates like a shifty-eyed precinct captain on the make ... These are activities on would expect of a small-time ward heeler, not a figure of such influence and stature.

The Mexican government has been corrupt for 140 years.

We do have endemic corruption, but most of it is not political.

All governments are more or less corrupt.

Show me a supposedly 'unfixable' problem in Washington, and I'll show you the political corruption standing in the way.

Our aim should be to not allow a single corrupt politician or even a family member to enter the House.

In India, the corrupt accuse the corrupt of being corrupt and the corrupt investigate the corrupt and absolve the corrupt of being corrupt.

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.

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

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.

Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.

I hate politics, hate deals, and deal-making, hate meeting with attorneys and agents.

I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today.