#corrupt

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#defeating #leads #legislation #party #purpose

We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany. ↗

— Carl Paladino

#albany #angry #attention #cesspool #conflicts

The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#approach #create #difficult #distance #forms

It is the responsibility of Afghanistan's new government to gain better control over the country's administration and to resolutely fight the drug trade and corruption. ↗

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#afghanistan #better #control #corruption #country

The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity. ↗

— Frank Serpico

#been #believe #case #children #corruption

If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

#arbitrary #arbitrary power #cannot #corruption #established

Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

#corrupted #liberty #manners #people #preserved

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds. ↗

— Sophocles

#base #cities #corrupts #currency #deeds

People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#deal #endure #excesses #into #lead

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#advancing #blood #corrupt #draw #fear