Quotes about Corruption
The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
— James Madison
The problem is we have a Wall Street-to-Washington access of power that has controlled the political climate. The donor class feeds the political class who does the dance that the donor class wants. And the result is federal government keeps getting bigger.
— Mike Huckabee
Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
— Francois Rabelais
How oft, in nations gone corrupt, and by their own devices brought down to servitude, That man chooses bondage before liberty. Bondage with ease before strenuous liberty.
— John Milton
We have the best government that money can buy.
— Mark Twain
Lack of money is the root of of all evil.
— George Bernard Shaw
I don't take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House.
— Barack Obama
Washington is a pool of money surrounded by people who want some.
— David Brinkley
Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who touches money touches dirt; and the less religion has to do with it, the better.
— Philip Schaff
Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.
— Mark Twain
Money doesn't talk. It screams.
— Glenn Beck