If the chief party ... be corrupt, you must follow their humor and indulge them, and in that case honesty and virtue are pernicious.
At university, I used to cheat and use precooked meals and then tell my friends that I've cooked it. They thought I had skills!
Any politician that can’t take people’s money and then turn around and screw them, doesn’t belong in the business.
I don't want corporate America to think they can continue their duplicitous double-dealing.
If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view.
I was a scam artist in high school for a while.
Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.
The high-minded definition of politics is: 'the art or science of government; the art or science concerned with guiding or influencing governmental policy.' It is only when you keep reading in Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary that you get closer to the truth: 'political activities characterized by artful and often dishonest practices'.
We used to speak familiarly of an agent, now do more, who was accustomed to manufacture evidence, and to invent facts in his cases, or at least to alter the aspects of facts to such an extent that they might fairly be viewed as new.
You will continue to read stories of crookedness and corruption - of policemen who lie and steal, doctors who reap where they do not sew, politicians on the take. Don't be misled. They are news because they are the exceptions.
We do many things at the federal level that would be considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector.
There is no greater sign of a bad cause, than when the patrons of it are reduced to the necessity of making use of the most wicked artifices to support it.
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
In pursuit of their commercial ambitions, Huawei relied on dishonest business practices that contradict the economic principles that have allowed American companies and the United States to thrive.
No city in the world can honest industry be more at a discount than in this capital of the government of the people
