Harry Reid Quotes

If there is corruption, it's because the political parties are weak.

The evil is in the White House at the present time.

We need some honesty and sincerity instead of corrupt government in Washington.

Senator Chris Dodd unveiled his plan to reduce corruption in the Senate. He's retiring.

You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. ... Government contains impure ingredients - as anybody who's looked at Congress can tell you. ... government practices deceptive advertising. And the merest glance at the federal budget is enough to convict the government of perjury, extortion, and fraud. ... in a nutshell: government should be against the law. Term limits aren't enough. We need jail.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

The message is pretty clear: Americans are sick and tired of the doubletalk coming out of Washington, of us going home and saying we're conservative and then coming up here and voting for 10,000 earmarks. We can't fool America anymore; the media is too good. They're reporting what we're really doing.

I think the record shows that as Speaker, I have taken the lead in cleaning up politics.

Voters definitely believe Washington is corrupt - but most think it's bipartisan.

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

The United States owe it to the world as well as to themselves to let the example of one government at least protect against the corruption which prevails.

History shows that more democracy is not a magic pill that will make institutionalized corruption will go away.

The moral element … ministers, professors, and respectable persons … do not believe politics should be pursued as a trade.

There is nothing more frightening to a political satirist than an honest administration.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics, is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.

He [previous President Uribe] has criticized this government for unveiling a lot of corruption: he thinks it is an attack on his government. But I have said no, it is not an attack on his government, it is an attack on the corrupt people, and I will continue to do that.

Term limits aren't enough. We need jail.

When you have a prime minister who is corrupt, then you can be sure that a country cannot be anything else but corrupt.

The consequences of turning a blind eye to government corruption go far beyond simply letting some corrupt politicians and bureaucrats walk free.

Why do politicians and bureaucrats get salaries and perks from the pockets of the poor and do nothing for them? So I took action against the corrupt and the lazy.

I'm pushing for citizen equality not because of some moral idea, but because this is the essential way to crack the corruption that now makes it so Washington can't work.

The reality is I believe there has never been in the history of our White House such an unscrupulous pair as what I witnessed in this White House.

Tom DeLay himself has never been the issue. DeLay is a symptom of a larger disease?a sick Republican culture of corruption that touches everyone who took his dirty money, voted for his corrupt leadership, or sat silently while their party has sold our government to the highest bidder.

Listen, Bernie Sanders talks about how Washington is corrupt, both parties are in bed with the lobbyists and special interests. I think he's exactly right.

One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.