Longgena Ginting Quotes

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

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

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.

Honest Graft

The host of contractors, speculators, stockjobbers, and lobby members which haunt the halls of Congress, all desirous ... to get their arm into the public treasury, are sufficient to alarm every friend of this country. Their progress must be arrested.

Congressmen have their noses right in the trough and they're slurping it up for their districts at the expense of all the taxpayers.

The Mexican government has been corrupt for 140 years.

… the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics

Earmarks are the gateway to corruption.

All governments are more or less corrupt.

Farm subsidies are bribes for votes.

Unfortunately, some politicians think they are immune from allegations of ethics abuse.

As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.

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

There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.

Too often, they play to whatever group is the loudest down at City Hall, and they buy them off, essentially.

We do live in an environment of crony capitalism, and the main reason we do is that loopholes are for sale, and both parties have their hands out through those loopholes.

The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.

The quicker we get rid of the lobby system the better for all of us. I don't think in this day and age it is tenable to have these nods and winks, and on-the-record and off-the-record briefings.

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

I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.

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

The earmark favor factory needs to be boarded up and demolished, not turned over to new management that may or may not have a better eye for earmarks with 'merit.'