Gary Ackerman Quotes

Public trust in both government and corporations is low, and deservedly so.

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

All governments are more or less corrupt.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren't supposed to make money!

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.

I never will ascribe to this government [Liberal Party] such wrongdoing as mere stupidity will explain.

As long as government exists, corruption will exist. It is an illness of government and can only be cured by the people.

By all means, make him [Democrat General Lewis Cass] President, gentlemen. He will feed you bounteously – if there is any left after he has helped himself.

The problem comes from the lack of transparency and accountability of government.

With money we will get partisans, with partisans votes, and with votes money, is the maxim of our political pilferers.

It is too early to tell where Mobutu will draw the line between corruption and the ‘normal’ use of payments and patronage to facilitate operations.

Standards are declining left and right, and it doesn't matter. It's whatever is necessary to prop up Obama.

The government is corrupted. It's corrupted. It is not about regular people.

There is the bipartisan pretense that the FBI is the only government agency in Washington that is above reproach. Yet, this is the agency that collaborated with Lois Lerner and the IRS in an effort to criminally prosecute opponents of Barack Obama.

It makes me mad to see people in government serving themselves at our expense.

Republicans just don't get that their idea of scandal is not what the average American thinks is a serious scandal.

Over the years, Judicial Watch has called out many White House conflicts of interest.

There seems to be less obvious corruption in city government and New York politicians, they aren't Republican or Democrat, they're New Yorkers.

Our government is corrupt.

Corruption is when a politician uses public funds to deliver pistachio ice cream to his home and transfer garden furniture to his Caesarea villa, then requesting that the expenses be covered for the water in his pool and fights to get a private jet.

The real cost of corruption in government, whether it is local, state, or federal, is a loss of the public trust.

What we've seen in government for so often is that people have been shady - about their roles, hiding things, not releasing things.

Corruption is found everywhere. I admit there is some corruption in my staff - not me.

We only have politicians who are concerned with being reelected.

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