It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
—David Brin
Politicians are the same all over; they promise to build a bridge even where there is no water.
—Nikita Kruschchev
Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster, in which the taints, the sickness, and the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions.
—Frantz Fanon
Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.
—William Gaddis
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
—Eric Hoffer
Money does not corrupt people. What corrupts people is lack of affection.… Money is simply the bandage which wounded people put over their wounds.
—Margaret Halsey
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt… Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
—Robert Anton Wilson
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
—George Bernard Shaw
Vote early and vote often.
—Al Capone
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
—Eric Hoffer
So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into wrong channels; so long as most people are out of place doing the things they hate to do, living a life they loathe to live, crime will be inevitable, and all the laws on the statutes can only increase, but never do away with, crime.
—Emma Goldman
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
—Oscar Levant
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
—P. J. O'Rourke