Andy Shaw Quotes

New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.

I come from a state where four governors have gone to jail since I've been alive. Two of my last four predecessors in this seat went to jail or are going to jail.

It is in the public interest to know what our governors are up to. If they are up to doing good, then they are only too happy to let us know. When they are up to no good, they want that kept secret.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

New York is having awful corruption scandals. The charges involve politicians acting in such an insanely stupid way, it shatters our longstanding confidence that taking money was the one thing they know how to do well.

A Vote for Davis & Bryan is a Vote Against Special Privilege. Remember Tea-Pot Dome.

Despite all the hoopla - despite all the umpa - after 5 years of UDP mismanagement, corruption, and incompetence, we have sunk deeper into debt of $2.4 billion: some $200 million deeper in debt.

Expenditures have gone rampant in Puerto Rico: lack of accountability - total lack of accountability.

Netanyahu's government and its faulty and politicized priorities are leading Israel into bankruptcy.

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

These people [Bush Administration] are for the most part rip-off artists. Notice that they're all gas and oil men from Cheney, to the two Bushes; I think Rumsfeld also.

It should not take award-winning investigators to find out how this government operates.

I don't think that political history is full of a whole lot of tremendously honest people. I have never found any fault about that as far as Mr. Trump is concerned in my relationship with him.

The only decent daily paper of record in France is the online 'Mediapart,' which exposes graft and corruption in high places and is feared by the establishment.

We took such a beating on Bofors. As far as I know, no one from my government was involved.

The proximate cause of Iraq's unraveling was the increasing authoritarian, sectarian, and corrupt conduct of the Iraqi government and its leader after the departure of the last U.S. combat forces in 2011.

I am inheriting a country which has been badly ravaged by years of misrule and ineptitude. There has been a wide disconnect between the people and the government.

I'm sick and tired of politics and politicians as usual.

All anyone needs to enjoy the state legislature is a strong stomach and a complete insensitivity to the needs of the people. As long as you don't think about what that peculiar body should be doing and what it actually is doing to the quality of life in Texas, then it's all marvelous fun.

A prime minister cannot preside over Israel when an indictment has been filed against him.

I won't call it UMNO anymore; this is Najib's party. I feel embarrassed that I am associated with a party that is seen as supporting corruption - it had caused me to feel ashamed.

Take corruption, right? Take political corruption. Europe, the Anglosphere, northern Europe, has been kind of a miracle zone - and I'm not saying there's no corruption, of course - but in being somehow able to minimize political corruption.

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

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

The moment I decided to blow the whistle on a lot of the corruption going on in the White House, there are protections that are afforded to me.