Quotes About Corrupt Politicians

#1. Port Royal, Jamaica, was built for pirates. The town had a well-protected harbor, corrupt politicians and townsfolk, and a set of ethics that seemed passed down from Sodom and Gomorrah.

Robert Kurson

#2. I don't want to paint myself as some kind of saint - that would be laughable - but I do think I've been able over the years to write humanely about subjects who are controversial and even contemptible. I've profiled pedophiles, stalkers, serial rapists, prison gang members and corrupt politicians.

Robert Draper

#3. But if you do not have the Tao yourself, what business have you spending your time in vain efforts to bring corrupt politicians into the right path?

Confucius

#4. If we elect the same corrupt politicians every time, that's a very clear message that we don't want a change.

Sukant Ratnakar

#5. A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims ... but accomplices

George Orwell

#6. Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.

Henry Kissinger

#7. I have realized why corrupt politicians do nothing to improve the quality of public school education. They are terrified of educated voters.

Miriam

#8. The democracy of riot squads, corrupt politicians, magnate-controlled newspapers and the surveillance state looks as phony and fragile as East Germany did thirty years ago.

Paul Mason

#9. I'm Dan Gelber. As a federal prosecutor, I helped put away corporate criminals, corrupt politicians and violent gangs.

Dan Gelber

#10. The thing about an Alpha, male or female, is that they can lead. When things get desperate they attack instead of retreat.

Kristen Chandler

#11. Pakistanis can't trust. They've seen in history that people, particularly politicians, are corrupt. And they're misguided by people in the name of Islam. They're told: 'Malala is not a Muslim, she's not in purdah, she's working for America.'

Malala Yousafzai

#12. People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.

Paddy Ashdown

#13. As long as ordinary citizens are as corrupt as the politicians in their daily lifestyle, the country will continue to suffer.

Sunday Adelaja

#14. I often hear people talk about how corrupt their politicians are, it makes me laugh because, the very same people who are complaining are just as corrupt. When they get to those same places of authority, they do exactly the same thing for which they were complaining against the previous politicians.

Sunday Adelaja

#15. I want to be a politician. I think I understand how the system works, I think a lot of politicians are corrupt, and it's about time we put some people in there who are going to look out for the majority of the people instead of the rich people.

Charles Barkley

#16. As long as we, in the United States, continue to insist that our politicians have to spend all of their time raising millions of dollars for television ads, it will be corrupt. If we leave it up to the politicians to clean up lobbying and finance reform, nothing is going to change.

Kevin Spacey

#17. He studied me, searching my expression, not quite seeing what had happened but aware that something had changed.

Alice Hoffman

#18. Truth will never shine from a heart filled with corruption and lies.

Suzy Kassem

#19. Why do decent young men and women become bullies? Why do soldiers dream of being heroes but end up abusing prisoners and shooting civilians? Why do politicians become corrupt? Why do cops beat suspects senseless and break the laws they're meant to protect?

Louise Penny

#20. It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil, ... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

George McGovern

#21. Our fight is a fundamental fight against both of the old corrupt party machines, for both are under the dominion of the plunder league of the professional politicians who are controlled and sustained by the great beneficiaries of privilege and reaction.

Theodore Roosevelt

#22. A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an exclamation point. Thats basic spelling that every woman ought to know.

Mistinguett

#23. I did not write love songs as a sixteen-year-old. I did not write about crushes or about mean girls. I wrote about my life - about the injustices and inequities and the search for answers and self-responsibility.

Jewel

#24. There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.

Owen Feltham

#25. I don't believe in happy endings," Flynn said, spinning Tess and tilting up her chin. "Just happy beginnings.

Brynn Kelly

#26. If you confer a benefit, never remember it; if you receive one, never forget it.

Chilon Of Sparta

#27. I often find myself on my knees praying to something or someone to not be in control.

Dave Gahan

#28. My number-one theory in life is that style is proportional to your lack of resources - the less you have, the more stylish you're likely to be.

Beth Ditto

#29. Confidence is not a wilted plant that can be brought back to life with a bit of water. It is a highly flammable object. Doubt sets it aflame and destroys it irreparably.

Michele Halberstadt

#30. Its easy to view politicians as corrupt and voting essentially an act of picking the lesser of two evils. I understand that perspective and feel it's valid.

Macklemore

#31. The government of my country snubs honest simplicity but fondles artistic villainy, and I think I might have developed into a very capable pickpocket if I had remained in the public service a year or two.

Mark Twain

#32. The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They were his absolute unity in the midst of eternal change.

Thomas Wolfe

#33. We find two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most corrupt ends
the nation is powerless against these two great cartels of politicians who are ostensibly its servants, but in reality dominate and plunder it.

Friedrich Engels