#corrupt

Dear Government... I'm going to have a serious talk with you if I ever find anyone to talk to. ↗

— Stieg Larsson

#corruption #government #politics #corruption

It is not power that corrupts but fear. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#burma #genocide #myanmar #politics #corruption

Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#power #corruption

It's not just spending, it's not just taxes, it's not just corruption, it is progressivism, and it is in both parties. It is in the Republicans and the Democrats. ↗

— Glenn Beck

#corruption #democrats #just #parties #progressivism

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

#corruption #end #first #justifies #means

Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost. ↗

— Eric Cantor

#earmarks #especially #fell #guilty #know

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#characterized #convict #corrupt #else #embittered

Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody. ↗

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#corruption #culture #education #harmony #humor

Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep. ↗

— Ray Davies

#corruption #crooked #hearing #keep #know

I think there is a case for strong action and intervention when there is criminality and when the leaders are corrupt or behaving in a criminal fashion. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#behaving #case #corrupt #criminal #criminality