Quotes about Political Crime

Samuel Adams

In monarchy the crime of treason may admit of being pardoned or lightly punished but the man who dares rebel against the laws of a republic ought to suffer death.

Adams' interesting distinction was later taken much further by many communist countries in their treatment of "enemies" of "peoples' governments."

Bob Woodward

The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal.

Gore Vidal

In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upon the identity of his successor.

James Ellroy

Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.

Yair Lapid

In politics, there is only one crime that is unforgivable - showing weakness.

Jason Chaffetz

Obstruction of Congress in our work is a crime.

Edward Snowden

If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political crime. A political crime, in legal terms, is defined as any crime against a state, as opposed to against an individual. Assassination, for example, is not a political crime because you've killed a person, an individual, and they've been harmed; their family's been harmed. But the state itself, you can't be extradited for harming it.

Anais Nin

Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime.

Alex Cox

The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.

Jeanine Pirro

Members of the FBI and the Department of Justice - some of whom ended up on Bob Mueller's team to prosecute Donald Trump - did everything they could to exonerate Hillary Clinton for her crimes and incriminate Donald Trump with a non-existent crime.

Margaret Thatcher

We are not prepared to consider special category status for certain groups of people serving sentences for crime. Crime is crime is crime, it is not political

Mitch Landrieu

Political corruption is endemic all over this country, in some places worse than others, right? On crime, you have all the major American cities where the crime rates at different points in their histories, have spiked dramatically.

Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei

Anybody can belong to the opposition groups. But there are people who are going to organize and concentrate on regime change, and they do everything toward these goals. Show me any country in the world that does not consider these activities to be crimes. Could they be encouraged in the United States or any country in Europe?

Europe and the United States have many such people who argue for regime change. Many in America even argue for violent regime change but they are protected by the First Amendment. Many foreign leaders do no believe thet his can possibley be true.

Ben Domenech

The government in Havana is best understood as a cross between violent left-wing radicals and organized crime.

Megyn Kelly

Typically, you get a year in prison for making a threat to assassinate the president.

Pierre Corneille

It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.

Political Crime Quotes