Will Rogers Quotes

We had less qualified trumping more qualified people just because of their political connections.

There should be no ‘jobs for the boys’. We ought to be crucified if we … select our constables from the servants of our parliamentary friends.

But when you look at the rubbish who are getting these awards and the absolute non-service they have given to the nation other than financing or working for political parties, you say, 'What company am I in?'

The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney's friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said 'Yes.'

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

'Favoritism' is always a factor, and pressure always build for the appointment of friends of influential supporters of the President, or for the nominees of powerful Member of Congress from the incoming President's party.

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

The American people do not want ambassadorships or any other position handed out to save a party money.

This town was built on nepotism.

What we affirm is that the theory which regards places in the public service as prizes to be distributed after an election, like plunder after a battle, the theory which perverts public trusts into party spoils, making public employment dependent on favor and not on proved merit, necessarily ruins the self-respect of public employees, destroys the function of party in a republic, prostitutes elections into a desperate strife for personal profit, and degrades the national character by lowering the moral tone and standard of the country.

There's an impression in the public that Congress takes care of its own.

I am against government by crony.

Government posts are for sale, preventing some poor people with abilities from serving in those positions.

All patronage is perilous to men of real ability and merit. It aids only those who lack other claims to support.

Ability and fitness for the office, where they exist, are as a rule, purely accidental. The selection is made primarily to strengthen the power of the party. This explains the principle by which appointments are parceled out to meet the alleged claims of particular political districts; it also explains the even more vicious principle by which race, nationality and creed often dictate the selection of Magistrates.

Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity.

Why turn away from that talent? What is it in today's parties that is virtually saying, 'Well, if you're a George Williams or Garr Barwick, you may not get pre-selection?' I'd like to reverse that.

People favouring their relatives more than an outsider is what the biggest fight in democracy is, let it be in film industry or politics.

The mainstream media decided long ago that Hillary Clinton was going to be a fabulous global leader regardless of how she performed.

Politics is a pure meritocracy. That's why Gordon Brown's cabinet had two brothers and a married couple in it. They just happened to be the best people around.

The problem with Deep South to me is that there was a group that were tight with the boss, and they would always go out and drink and have barbeques. Then, when WWE would say, 'Who should we look at?' Bill Demott would say, 'Oh, look at this guy and this guy.' Of course those were his buddies.

At the end of the day nepotism has been there it's always going to be there don't expect it to change.

We are a nation of laws, not a nation that ignores laws if it benefits the Democrat Party.

Careerism in Washington "goes to the heart of what's wrong in America right now."

Corruption of politics has nothing to do with the morals, or the laxity of morals, of various political personalities. Its cause is altogether a material one.