Howard Dean Quotes

Should look forward to a time, and that not a distant one, when corruption in this, as in the country from which we derive our origin, will have seized the heads of government, and be spread by them through the body of the people; when they will purchase the voices of the people, and make them pay the price.

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

There's the stench of money around this building [the Capitol].

New York voters agree on this: There is too much corruption in government - federal, state, and local.

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

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.

The Republicans I've been talking to have said, 'Oh, the public is cynical about indictments, they happen so often.' Well, that's whistling past the graveyard, because the average voter is only going to remember that one of the big Republican head honchos in Congress was indicted. They won't remember the name or position, but they'll remember it says Congress is corrupt and maybe the majority party is corrupt.

As a lobbyist he had long ago concluded there was no difference in how Democrats and Republicans conducted the business of government. The game stayed the same: It was always about favors and friends, and who controlled the dough. Party labels were merely a way to keep track of the teams; issues were mostly smoke and vaudeville. Nobody believed in anything except hanging on to power, whatever it took.

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

It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought.

Washington's a cesspool of money.

Great wealth took possession of the government. It was reflected in Mr. Harding's selection of a cabinet.

The American people might have a criminal syndicate running their government.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

Most men think graft a sporadic evil, breaking out here and there, with no connection between outbreaks. I shared the same opinion, but very soon I discovered that the graft in the cities always leads to the graft in the State.

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

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.

I don't think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.

D.C. is more corrupt than Hollywood. It really is.

Palestinians are painfully aware that their government is rife with corruption.

You can’t have a corrupt lobbyist if you don’t have a corrupt Congressman or staff member…. It’s a team effort.

The Mexican government has been corrupt for 140 years.

I believe it [the Republican Party] is today the most corrupt and debauched political party that ever existed.

Good men and women come to Washington and get caught in a culture of corruption.

Was there ever such a bare-faced corruption in any country before?