Mark Steyn Quotes

It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.

In Washington, task forces work like Tylenol: they reduce the symptoms of scandal while leaving the substance untouched.

It was accountability that Nixon feared.

What did the President know and when did he know it?

Clericalism has rendered some of Ireland's brightest, most privileged and powerful men either unwilling or unable to address the horrors cited in the Ryan and Murphy Reports.

I'm not an expert on politics, but there's a bunch of bad people at the top who care about lining their own pockets before creating a society that looks after the vulnerable.

In my experience in Washington, when people refuse to come clean, it is usually because they are hiding dirty laundry.

Scandals are the fertilizer of Western democracy.

Great thieves go Scott-free, as the Pope and his crew.

Those who commit the murders write the reports.

The ruler will be interrogated not only about his own unjust deeds but also about those of his staff

An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere.

I’m positive that the President is innocent of any involvement in Watergate

In public life as in private life, a man of the very highest repute will occasionally go wrong..

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

Even Napoleon had his Watergate.

when greed and fear are linked to power, you have a dangerous mix. We see that in political life. In part of the world, the mix of greed and fear means that those who get power become reluctant to give it back. One of the many things I like and admire in our democracies are the norms that make our leaders hand over power when voters tell them to

In any other corporation, if there was so many things that were found to be corrupt, then the man at the top would go - but that doesn't seem to be the case with FIFA.

Obama's tenure had more dirty linen then Charlie Sheen's hamper.

When most people find themselves running afoul of the law, they might change their ways. When the Koch brothers found themselves running afoul of the law, David Koch decided to run for office so that he could change the law.

I think that at his core, Benjamin Netanyahu is not corrupt.

If you're Obama, can you imagine being lectured to about honesty and integrity from a convicted perjurer, Bill Clinton? My gosh, folks, I mean, literally how far has one fallen when that is the case?

Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed. It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal - hardly inspiring - standards of political conduct.

Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.

Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.