Quotes about Corruption
We have the best government that money can buy.
- Mark Twain
Lack of money is the root of of all evil.
- George Bernard Shaw
I don't take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House.
- Barack Obama
Washington is a pool of money surrounded by people who want some.
- David Brinkley
Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who touches money touches dirt; and the less religion has to do with it, the better.
- Philip Schaff
Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.
- Mark Twain
Money doesn't talk. It screams.
- Glenn Beck
Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.
- William Wilberforce
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
- Frank Herbert
Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
- Benjamin Disraeli