Political Bribery Quotes

Give the votes to people who have no property and they will sell them to the rich, who will be able to buy them.

Should look forward to a time, and that not a distant one, when corruption in this, as in the country from which we derive our origin, will have seized the heads of government, and be spread by them through the body of the people; when they will purchase the voices of the people, and make them pay the price.

We may lessen the danger of buying and selling votes, by making the number of voters too great for any means of purchase.

Congress leaders will now come to offer you money. I suggest you take the money but don't vote for them.

Corruption in Nigeria is blocking development even though they have all this oil wealth.

Corrupt Bargain

Our current Supreme Court, in the Citizens United case, took that which had been named corrupt for over 200 years [gifts to politicians] and renamed it legitimate..

The building of the transcontinental railroads resulted in an orgy of political corruption. The public lands and the natural resources of coal, of iron, and of timber were lavishly wasted in the great scramble for wealth and material power. The carnival of waste and plunder reached its climax about 1890. Evidences were abundant that the great business interests of the country were controlling the government for their own private benefit. The capitalists who financed the railroads, mines, mills, packing houses, grain elevators, and other great enterprises, received from Congress favors which destroyed competition and enormously increased private fortunes.

The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods.

Politicians can be bought and often are.

Such pushy people, the school union chiefs.It's almost not worth the campaign donations. Almost.

The abuse of buying and selling votes crept in and money began to play an important part in determining elections.

American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.

Not since the gilded age has our politics been opened so wide to corporate contribution and donations from secret sources.

Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America

MPs do not work for you. They work for the lobbyists who have bought their parties.

As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.

Was there ever such a bare-faced corruption in any country before?

Term limits aren't enough. We need jail.

Saddam Hussein's trial would not be public since he could name countries and persons whom he gave money.

When legislators do something that doesn't make a whole lot of sense, there's always the suspicion that they're in somebody's pocket.

The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.

Our Supreme Court has lifted the practice of buying legislation to the level of a constitutional principle by repeatedly protecting corporate spending for and against political candidates, as well as promises and threats of such spending to bribe and blackmail such candidates, by appeal to the free-speech clause of the First Amendment.

State and local government are more corrupt and less efficient than the federal government.

This town has become very corrupt. We need reform of lobbying.