#corrupting

I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don't blame the American public. The U.S. Supreme Court has a lot to answer for, because it has made it impossible for Congress to reduce the corrupting influence of money on American political life. ↗

— Peter Singer

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I went to Marion College for writing and I was kicked out of the writing school. I was asked to leave the writing program because I was corrupting the other students. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power. ↗

— William Henry Harrison

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Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life. ↗

— Saul Alinsky

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Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism. ↗

— Jack Levine

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What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition? ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#corrupting #likelihood #man #who

Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

#money #now #politics #pretty #right

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting. ↗

— A. J. P. Taylor

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If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us. ↗

— Daniel Ellsberg

#does #empire #monarchy #overt #see

The Court made an exception, however, in the case of candidates contributing to their own campaigns because of the rather reasonable presumption that a candidate is incapable of corrupting himself. ↗

— James L. Buckley

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