H. D. Kumaraswamy Quotes

I'm not saying that all politicians are awful. I don't know any of them well enough to say whether they're awful or not. But almost every day, you find out something about them that's appalling. Maybe we shouldn't be surprised any longer.

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.

This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.

I've always tried to avoid politics because most politicians that I know are quite dirty in terms of human dignity, ethics and morals.

Nixon was the beginning of people not trusting politics.

The party of swindlers and thieves is putting forward its chief swindler and its chief thief for the presidency. We must vote against him, struggle against him.

I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don't know now either.

The Philippines is a country in which a man of morals can't be president, in which a politician who hasn't been linked to any wrongdoing isn't assumed to be honest, but merely better at hiding his corruption.

I don't think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.

The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified.

Here lies the body of the Republican party — Corrupt, and generally speaking, hearty.

I believe it [the Republican Party] is today the most corrupt and debauched political party that ever existed.

It's hard to make corruption a partisan issue because voters are cynical about everybody in politics.

We need clean candidates. Party A puts up a candidate and he is terribly corrupt. Party B puts up a candidate who is even more corrupt. There is no choice. So I have the Clean Candidate Campaign.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics, is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.

He [previous President Uribe] has criticized this government for unveiling a lot of corruption: he thinks it is an attack on his government. But I have said no, it is not an attack on his government, it is an attack on the corrupt people, and I will continue to do that.

I'm a recovering politician.

Sen. Obama comes from the old Chicago machine politics and has never taken on the special interests in his party on a major issue ever.

I like Arvind Kejriwal and his work that he is doing for India, but I don't know why he is after Congress party and Gandhi family, why can't he see other leaders and parties which are also involved in corruption.

The BJP does not intend to use Parliament to project Congress's corruption.

AAP was formed to expose the Congress's scam. We could never think of an alliance with the Congress, but to fight the BJP we have to think of something like that.

The flag of SP means the flag of goons. BSP's flag means the flag of corruption.

Give politicians power and it certainly will be abused eventually - if not by today's politicians, then by their successors.

Justin Trudeau tries to say that Canada is back. I say the Liberals are back - back to ignoring the rules and abusing the privileges of power.

Chicago's been under the grip of the corrupt and broken political machine for as long as everybody's memory.