#corrupt

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#cannot #corrupt #exist #generally #liberty

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life. ↗

— Jacques Chirac

#ages #allow #back #basic #corrupt

New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#backwards #blush #boss #corruption #could

'Argo,' 'Lincoln,' and 'Zero Dark Thirty,' three films honored with Best Picture Oscar nominations, lionize their Washington-anchored protagonists as crafty, competent, and virtually incorruptible. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#best picture #competent #crafty #dark #films

Experiment or not, the government is always watching. - Felix ↗

— Donna Galanti

#murder #secret-agent #experience

At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism. Build a dam to take away water AWAY from 40 million people. Build a dam to pretend to BRING water to 40 million people. Who are these gods that govern us? Is there no limit to their powers? ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#capitalism #corporations #dam #economics #environmental-degradation

Experience has shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#complacency #corruption #decline #misgovernment #political-philosophy

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? ↗

— Harry Shearer

#absolute power #absolute power corrupts #absolutely #corrupts #does

To be surrounded by sixty people who make your life miserable is to be at a family reunion. But to be surrounded by 600,000 people who make the whole world miserable is to live in Washington DC. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#corruption #family #family-reunion #miserable #misery

Politically, Republicans and Democrats are at opposite ends. One’s a burp and the other’s a fart.
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— Jarod Kintz

#corruption #democrats #funny #government #humor