Conan O'Brien Quotes

The stimulus was a case of political patronage, corporate welfare, and cronyism at their worst.

Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies, such a practice is frowned upon. Privileged access to the corridors of power through family connections and a kind of old boys' network, is also deemed an abuse of power, and so it is.

Modi government has not flouted any rule or regulation to help anyone.

I would argue that one of the issues which the public should be much more emphatic about with all politicians... is patronage, appointing people to high positions because they supported your campaign or helped you raise money.

Crony capitalism is not capitalism - it is cronyism.

History's just been made for sale to an inside deal.

I am against government by crony.

I have, from the beginning, been opposed to Trump hiring any of his relatives. Americans don't like that; I don't like that. That's the one fascist thing he's done. Hiring his kids.

I can tolerate anything but corruption and nepotism.

Nepotism is an overrated debate. It exists everywhere and I have been telling this from the day one.

Corruption has reached an unacceptable level. It devours resources that could be devoted to the citizens. It impedes the proper carrying out of market rules and penalizes the honest and capable.

Conflict of interest and lack of transparency, though they are global features as we saw post-Iraq, almost define Indian cricket.

Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.

I believe that cronyism is nothing more than welfare for the rich and powerful, and should be abolished.

The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.

The pathological degree to which former Vice President Dick Cheney operated in secrecy led to government abuses that we'll probably spend years learning about.

This town was built on nepotism.

Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.

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

President Junior is the mascot of crony capitalism.

Of the top 10 companies who got contracts from the Iraq war, all of them had contributed to the Republicans and almost all had ex Pentagon admirals and generals on their staffs.

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

Those guys [congressmen] lived on the basis of getting their little tidbits and their perks.

The assumption has to be that members of Congress are, like eunuchs in a harem, physically incapable of a conflict of interest.

We must rid the country of corruption, cronyism and nepotism.