All power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.Frank Herbert
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.Montesquieu
Nobody trusts anyone in authority today. It is one of the main features of our age. Wherever you look, there are lying politicians, crooked bankers, corrupt police officers, cheating journalists and double-dealing media barons, sinister children's entertainers, rotten and greedy energy companies, and out-of-control security services.Adam Curtis
Black money is a cancer in our economic system, not yet terminal or life-threatening.Subramanian Swamy
Are my politics Democrat or Republican? I think both are horrific. And it doesn't matter anyway. Money runs America; money runs everywhere.Shane Smith
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.Molly Ivins
The love of power, like the love of money, increases with the possession of it; and we know in what ruin these baneful passions have involved human societies in all ages when they have been let loose and suffered to rage uncontrolled - There is no restraint like the pervading eye of the virtuous citizens.Samuel Adams
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
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.Hunter S. Thompson
The role of money in politics is a major problem and particularly the role of unchecked anonymous money.Jon Ossoff
Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It's just plain wrong.Nancy Pelosi
I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.Ruth Bader Ginsburg
There is simply too much corruption, too much money available for the taking.Miriam Defensor-Santiago
In large commercial cities, the money power is, I fear irresistible. It is not by open corruption that it always, or even most generally, operates.Roger B. Taney
In this financial year we will be spending at least $1.5 billion on foreign aid and we cannot be sure that this money will be properly spent, as corruption and mismanagement in many of the recipient countries are legend.Pauline Hanson
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
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.Friedrich Nietzsche
Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen's faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.Joe Biden