Politics Corruption Quotes

It is very important at this juncture to eliminate the influence of big money and special interests in politics.

Bad politics tends to drive out good politics, just as bad money drives out good money.

Are my politics Democrat or Republican? I think both are horrific. And it doesn't matter anyway. Money runs America; money runs everywhere.

D.C. is more corrupt than Hollywood. It really is.

The paid political campaign managers are the problem [with modern campaigns.] They are overpaid for doing the wrong things.

I've never been in politics before, but even in the brief time that I've been running for governor, I've been exposed to some of the worst people I've ever known. Liars, cowards, sociopaths.

“Lobbyist” has been a dirty word in politics for a number of years.

While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics.

Through the 1990s, the fracturing of Tasmanian Aboriginal politics was given impetus by the ongoing corruption of a number of black organisations started under federal government programmes, with large amounts of public money being lost.

In the poultry business, you sit on an egg and it hatches. In the political business, you sit on a lead and it rots.

After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world

Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election.

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the place is now used as a lecture hall by the Audible Reformer.

It's obscene how money is driving politics.

Crime does not pay as well as politics.

Ethics and Washington DC. Are they mutually exclusive?

The endless money chase has given the appearance of corrupting government.

Money in politics is a huge issue.

Politics is corrupting the American judicial system in much the same way the judicial system was corrupted in Nazi Germany.

Funny thing about being a U.S. senator, the only thing the law says you have to be is 30 years old. Not another single requirement. They just figure that a man that old got nobody to blame but himself if he gets caught in there.

If you have $1 billion, you can use the Clinton Foundation as a conduit, and as it goes by, Clinton gives it his prestige.

This is very dangerous for us, as a society, and I think people deserve a politics of integrity that is not bought and paid for by big banks, fossil fuel giants, war profiteers, insurance companies, the things that those two corporate parties both represent and which pull the strings inside the party.

Of all the jobs I've had, sliming fish was pretty good preparation for life in Washington.

It seems to me that we make a terrible mistake in talking about Trump as some kind of essence of evil. Trump is symptomatic of something much deeper in the culture, whether we're talking about the militarization of everyday life, whether we're talking about the criminalization of social problems, or whether we're talking about the way in which money has absolutely corrupted politics. This is a country that is sliding into authoritarianism.