Edward Brooke Quotes

Every government is always growing corrupt.

The Mexican government has been corrupt for 140 years.

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

The honest man might observe... that no one gets something for nothing; that politicians go in poor and go out rich; that the Government screws up everything it touches; and that the Will to Believe is best confined to the Religious Venue, as to practice it elsewhere is just too damned expensive.

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

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.

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

If you hang around politics long enough, you tend to get disappointed by people.

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

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.

President Bush has urged people to get back to normal and today Congress announced that they are accepting bribes again.

The career politicians in Washington had transformed a government "for the people" into a government for themselves and for special interests.

Washington, of course, aside from being one of the most mismanaged, crime-ridden cities on the planet, is a place where 535 federal legislators and about 38,000 lobbyists work at confiscating and redistributing the incomes of the American people.

Here the system is creating an industry around the drug issue when it does nothing to stop the corrupt military that moves the drugs, and the big banks that are all in cahoots with the President and the big shots in the Congress.

Extremely disappointed that corruption may have reached such a level in Mexico.

I see a government completely out of control, and money is number one. Integrity isn't even on the map.

Government is a kind of legalized pillage.

Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.

If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption.

When you get to political machines that can control a state, then you're really into organized crime - almost. You're fighting a political mafia.

The corporations have become our government. They're not just influential. Department by department, you name it, they put their people in high government positions, they have 10,000 PACs and 35,000 lobbyists, so there's no more opening to be heard.

In Southern Europe, we have, of course, very bad governments.

There is a long American tradition of suspicion of concentrated economic power because of its tendency to corrupt government and turn it from a democracy into a plutocracy.

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.

With people in high office, the old - you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts.