Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

I see corruption as a mortal enemy for young democracies.

The United States owe it to the world as well as to themselves to let the example of one government at least protect against the corruption which prevails.

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

No nation can claim, 'We are an uncorrupt nation, therefore we will tell you what the morals of democracy are.'

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

Democracy is political corruption which must be effectively done away with.

In politics, as in religion, there are devotees who show their reverence for a departed saint by converting his tomb into a sanctuary for crime.

History shows that more democracy is not a magic pill that will make institutionalized corruption will go away.

The Capitol Building should have a sign saying, “Warning!! You are now Entering an Ethics-Free Zone!”

There is nothing more frightening to a political satirist than an honest administration.

If there is corruption, it's because the political parties are weak.

Signs everywhere now show a great moral awakening—the cleaning out of rotten business & still more rotten policies. But we’ve only begun! For the first time, men were questioning the fundamentals of democracy, inquiring whether we truly had self-government in America, or whether it had been corrupted by selfish interests. This questioning came not alone from what one might call the working class, but from middle America as well.

when greed and fear are linked to power, you have a dangerous mix. We see that in political life. In part of the world, the mix of greed and fear means that those who get power become reluctant to give it back. One of the many things I like and admire in our democracies are the norms that make our leaders hand over power when voters tell them to

I'm a politician who's against corruption that Putin has done in our country.

I understand reform to mean the perfection of what previous generations have already done. I'm not an advocate of destroying, 'kroshat,' and then selling like they do in Russia. That's how we can prevent the wild corruption in our state like they have in the other post-Soviet states.

Here in Maine, we know that the system of special interests influencing elections runs contrary to our democratic values.

People are always teaching us democracy but the people who teach us democracy don't want to learn it themselves.

Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny days of elementary school: that the government exist to serve the public, not particular companies or individuals or even elected officials.

A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold.

We have to continue to confront the challenge of corruption within the public service.

In my opinion, using different kinds of epithets and adjectives in connection with the word democracy is a sign of mere hypocrisy, to put it mildly. Either there's democracy, or there isn't.

I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing power than helping the people who sent them to Washington in the first place.