Quotes about Office Abuse

Huey Long

The governor’s mansion was not good enough for me, although it was too good for my predecessor.

Zephyr Teachout

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.

Robert J. Bentley

At no time I have used the resources of my office to facilitate a relationship of any type.

H. W. Brands

George W. Bush has shown himself to be a decent guy, not exploiting his former office to make top dollars giving speeches.

Tom Fitton

We have long noted Pelosi's abuse of the perks of public office that granted her access to luxury military travel.

George F. Kennan

This office has in recent decades, in my view, been seriously misused and distorted

by the President and the White House Kennan was certainly right in Powell’s case. The President and Vice President—Bush and Cheney used Powell’s and the State Department’s credibility to have Powell tell the United Nations and the American Public that there was incontrovertible evidence that Iraq has a nuclear weapon about to be deployed thus justifying the American invasion of Iraq, However, this was untrue. Not only was there no nuclear bomb almost ready for deployment, there was no nuclear development program in Iraq at all.

Lord Acton

There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.

Gene Green

If we can't remove a member of Congress who has been convicted of 10 felonies - including using his office for personal gain - we risk losing the faith and trust of the American people that we have.

John Burns

The men who made the war were profuse in their praises of the man who kicked the P.M. out of his office and now degrades by his disloyal, dishonest and lying presence the greatest office in the State.

Nina Turner

It is a travesty for anyone who is elected to office, who serves in an elective office, to engage in voter suppression.

George F. Will

Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.

House of Representatives

… the use of office for direct or indirect personal monetary gain

George Frisbie Hoar

I have heard in highest places the shameless doctrine avowed by men grown old in public office that the true way by which power should be gained in the Republic is to bribe the people with the offices created for their service.

Bill Maher

There are only three ways a congressman goes out: They die in office, they cash in as a lobbyist, or they mistakenly tweet a picture of their d*ck.

Bob Etheridge

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.

David Broder

Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.

William Shakespeare

Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity. O that estates, degrees, and offices Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer!

Andrew Johnson

While this gang-this common gang of cormorants and bloodsuckers, have been fattening upon the country for the past four of five years-men never going into the field, who growl at being removed from their fat offices, they are great patriots! Look at them all over your district?

Johnson, after replacing Lincoln, started removing Lincoln appointees, particularly those who were aggressive reconstructionists and replacing them with others who generally were less aggressive in protecting Negro rights. “Going into the field” was the code word of the time for being in combat in the Civil War. He tried to label the civilian Lincoln appointees negatively, justifying their replacement. At the time there was no Civil Service system so even relatively minor officials were replaced. He was impeached by the house and retained his office by a single vote although the majority of the Senate voted to convict him.

Office Abuse Quotes