Corruption Quotes

"Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver" "The most scandalous aspect of the scandal is that one gets used to it" "98% of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy 2% that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them " "The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power." "If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people—including me—would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today " "Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them" "Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power." "We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." "One concept corrupts and confuses the others" "A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar"