Politician Corruption Quotes

Such a thing as ending unemployment would never occur to Washington politicians because their corporate backers depend on the threat of unemployment to keep wages down.

... the trouble is, once you give in to a Voting Bloc, you become an addict. Just about every politician in New York is a political junkie.

When an office-holder facing a multi-count indictment says that he has decided to spend more time with his family, the proper response is a horse-laugh. When an accused politician explains that a charge of corruption is 'really' an attack on his or her race, religion, ethnic background or gender, the odds that something felonious happened jumps.

I do not trust self serving misinformation coming from corporations and their media trolls. I do not trust politicians who are taking millions from those corporations either. I trust people. So I make my music for people not for candidates.

I reiterate my proposal of creating life sentences for politicians who make deals with organized criminals. They deserve the maximum penalty because a politician that makes deals with criminals - I've said it, and I repeat it - is no longer a politician but just another 'capo.'

I have watched these politicians in our movement. I followed their methods and regardless of how they talk of their trade union loyalty, my experience has been that when they enter the political arena they begin by talking as politicians, and very soon thinking like politicians, to the desertion of every trade union activity they pledged themselves to become part of

The great crime of the politicians is not just the corrosion of their own morality but the corruption they've caused to the American spirit.

When Charlie Crist went independent, I no longer supported him. Just track the money.

Give politicians power and it certainly will be abused eventually - if not by today's politicians, then by their successors.

No politician ever admits where all his money comes from.

I actually never thought that Barack Obama was anything but a typical Democratic party politician, which to me meant that he was probably in bed with Wall Street.

People get Washington-ized a lot of times, being down there for awhile, and forget that we're called members of the House of Representatives because we're meant to represent people.

Too many terms corrupts politicians so they only want to be reelected.

People are starving for that coming out of Washington. And it's not a Democrat thing or a Republican thing. I think it's a politician thing.

When I have to choose between voting for the people or voting for the special interests, I always stick with the special interests. They remember. The people forget.

Saxby Chambliss spent over $100,000 of leadership PAC money to play golf…. Even after a politician leaves office he can use leadership PAC money to enhance his lifestyle….The irony is that the leadership PAC concept was intended to help other members of the party to get elected to office.

The politicians in Washington are spending trillions of dollars of our money. When are Americans going to stand up and say enough is enough?

The truth is I am beholden to no one, nobody's gonna tell me what to do, no - no group that owns a military firm that gives military supplies. Because I know - I've heard the case where often times you wanna buy certain weapons or something and you like one but you get the other one because that one has a contact to our politicians.

The only time the Democrats and the Republicans are together is when they are voting for their own pay raise.

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.

What 'eminent domain' laws mean in practice is that politicians have a right to seize your property and turn it over to someone else, in order to gain campaign contributions and win votes.

All politicians, even the most idealistic ones, are looking for money, sucking up to rich people.

To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections.