Noam Chomsky Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

We're not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I'm sure.

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

The Mexican government has been corrupt for 140 years.

State and local government are more corrupt and less efficient than the federal government.

A government, … protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

I'm a politician who's against corruption that Putin has done in our country.

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

Political corruption is eating our democracy out from the inside. Most Americans know that. But democratic and economic health can't be easily disentangled.

I do verily believe that a single, consolidated government would become the most corrupt government on the earth.

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.

Here's what we [Americans] need: a 30 second you tube video of some guy at a party constantly checking out everyone else at the party, while he pretends to be speaking to the other person. We're the other person. The guy are the politicians. And the distraction is the corruption: We need a Congress that can afford to talk to us. For at least one drink or so.

It's all part of the pattern. This is a story of scandal and corruption, investigations, refusals to take responsibility. If this government continues in office, this will continue.

Every government is always growing corrupt.

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

The accountability of government has gone to the point where the very use of the law is the instrument of illegality.

I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing power than helping the people who sent them to Washington in the first place.

Why does corruption in government always surprise us? Why do we expect anything else from it? Government is organized force. It takes our wealth and makes war. And we think honest men would do that work?

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.

There is no more important task in Washington than cleaning up the culture of corruption. Yet the president - whose White House has become the cradle of Republican corruption - is not taking responsibility for the costs of that corruption.