Political Bribery Quotes

#1. Most of the money given by rich people in "charity" is made up of conscience money, "ransom," political bribery, and bids for titles ... One buys moral credit by signing a cheque, which is easier than turning a prayer wheel.

George Bernard Shaw

#2. I don't think it's bribery; I think it's extortion. Bribery, you know, is when the person that's giving the money does it voluntarily. What it is in Washington is extortion because they all ask for the money.

John McCain

#3. Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

Jean Cocteau

#4. I am forever walking upon these shores,
Betwixt the sand and the foam,
The high tide will erase my food prints,
And the wind will blow away the foam,
But the sea and the shore will remain forever.

Kahlil Gibran

#5. When the government and electrical utility company jointly harass an electrical fraud researcher, it confirms that the research is progressing in the right direction!

Steven Magee

#6. Watch me closely - only one can spoil it.

Eugene Ormandy

#7. It was difficult to pull away, like fighting gravity with nothing more than a hopeful leap.

Susan Byrde

#8. Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire.

Jacques Amyot

#9. [the downfall of our political system is the] buying and selling of politicians ... bribery. In the private sector, you're arrested for it. In the public sector, it's the norm ...

Jesse Ventura

#10. History is always written by the victor, and the histories of the losing parties belong to the shrinking circle of those who were there.

Joachim Peiper

#11. Follow your dreams and never give up.
Anything is possible.

Shaneekqua Bell

#12. War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.

M.F.K. Fisher

#13. Growing up, I would watch a movie on video and would go to the back of the VHS and locate the address for Universal Pictures or MGM or whatever. I'd write to the studios asking them if I could be in a movie. They never wrote me back.

Garrett Hedlund

#14. Each person is worth the value put on them by the affection of others, and that is where popular wisdom has found that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Machado De Assis