Mike Quigley Quotes

Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.

Right here at home, we have seen what happens when a politician breaks that public trust, when they are dishonest and corrupt.

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

The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.

Corruption is the exchange of public benefits for private gain.

Democracies can no longer tolerate bribery, fraud and dishonesty, especially as such practices disproportionately hurt the poor.

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.

Corruption is when people in public office use that public office for private or selfish ends. This is one of the most central debates in the last 40 years in law, what is corruption.

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

Corruption is everywhere. It's not just in the Congress. Corruption is not just your prerogative or mine.

The day corruption charges are levelled against me, I would retire and sit at home.

To be sure, the Trump administration is shot through with corruption.

If a politician takes a bribe to do what he thinks would have been best for the public anyway, he still goes to jail. If he's president, under a Constitution that refers to impeachment specifically for 'bribery,' as well other 'high crimes and misdemeanors,' he should still be removed.

As Members of Congress, we should not be using public office for private gain.

Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are leveled. I think it is self-defeating.

I think recent revelations about who's in what bed speak to the problems with what happened in the Gulf.

Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist.

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.

Despite high profile examples of local authorities been tried, convicted, and sometimes even executed for corruption, many officials simply calculate that the payoff for malfeasance is worth the risk of being caught.

A thief is more moral than a congressman; when a thief steals your money, he doesn't demand you thank him.

I don't think that anybody is worse than a public official who sells his office and corrupts others.

Political scandal has become devalued. There are so many of them.

The administration of government has become more complex. The opportunities for malfeasance and corruption have multiplied.

The Capitol Building should have a sign saying, “Warning!! You are now Entering an Ethics-Free Zone!”