Adele Quotes

Honest Graft

Donald Trump handles these nitwit reporters with a new and most disgraceful form of bribery.

Corruption is everywhere. It's not just in the Congress. Corruption is not just your prerogative or mine.

And you know, almost in a perverse way, I wish it had been undue influence because we know how to correct that. We get rid of the people who, in fact, were exercising that.

As Members of Congress, we should not be using public office for private gain.

Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are leveled. I think it is self-defeating.

I think recent revelations about who's in what bed speak to the problems with what happened in the Gulf.

Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist.

Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.

For a man who purports to have learned of media ethics only this month, Mr. Williams has spent an undue amount of time appearing as a media ethicist on both CNN and the cable news networks of NBC.

People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.

Public office must not be a means to profit or become rich.

Politics is dirty, and I don't like to talk about dirty things... My conscience is clear.

History's just been made for sale to an inside deal.

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

More coming out about Saddam Hussein. We now know he takes Viagra and he has as many as six mistresses. No wonder Congress is reluctant to take action against this guy - he's one of their own.

Whether I'm reading a national publication or one of my local Chicago newspapers, I don't need to turn too many pages before I stumble upon another scandal. Not only do ethics violations deteriorate the public trust, but they also disrupt and undermine legitimate debate and policy.

I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director.

Sure I know where the press room is - I just look for where they throw the dog meat.

Legislators and judges are necessarily exposed to all the temptations of money, fame, and power, to induce them to disregard justice between parties, and sell the rights, and violate the liberties of the people. Jurors, on the other hand, are exposed to none of these temptations.

All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.

I had enabled the development of a corrupt system right under my very eyes..

Despite high profile examples of local authorities been tried, convicted, and sometimes even executed for corruption, many officials simply calculate that the payoff for malfeasance is worth the risk of being caught.

Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.

A thief is more moral than a congressman; when a thief steals your money, he doesn't demand you thank him.