Tommy Chong Quotes

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

We're doing a lot about corruption... it takes a long time and we are doing the right measures. It took 20 years for the system under successive military governments to become so corrupt, so it will take time to bring it under control.

Every public institution in the United States and most private ones are corrupt.

The NYPD is just a branch of corruption connected to a giant, corrupt tree called the United States government.

It seems that the problem with government as an institution is uniformly bad, worldwide. It may be the ONLY thing that binds all nations together - the incompetence of all of their governments...The unions are the mafia, which is the CIA, which is the Catholic Church, which is the government, which is what's the difference? It's corrupt! It's the same guys pulling these strings, you know? One day he pulls the string and this lamp comes out, the next say he pulls the string and there's a missile coming out.

Every government is always growing corrupt.

Let me say this: I'm paranoid of the government. They've lost my trust. They've lied to me so many times that I don't know what to believe from them anymore.

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

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.

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.

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

Like most people who live in India, I complain about corruption, but know that I can live with corrupt men. It is the honest ones I secretly worry about.

Having served in the Nixon Administration, I am well aware of how the political leadership of an administration can try to politicize the civil service, including law enforcement.

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

The history of governments is one of the most immoral parts of human history.

The Mexican government has been corrupt for 140 years.

The essence of government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse

The only way to get rid of corruption in high places is to get rid of the high places.

Surely we don’t want the President to lie, we don’t want our senators to lie, we don’t want our congressmen to lie. But sometimes they do.

Why is there so much resistance among people who work in the Government to the seemingly obvious fact that, in our democracy, if the Government lies, it will eventually get caught

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

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

I find the Democratic party overall, on a macro level, to be institutionally corrupt.

The consequences of turning a blind eye to government corruption go far beyond simply letting some corrupt politicians and bureaucrats walk free.

People of all races need to come together to control our government and run a giant comb through it so we can see the filth that comes out.