It’s a sorry statement about how broken Washington is that we could not take advantage of this unique and sad moment in history and enact serious lobbying reform. We owed it to the people who sent us to Washington to root out corruption, and the Senate ...
Senator John Kerry
The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.
Richard Hofstadter
Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruptionSamuel Johnson
[Further talking about Robocop]: "Aside from the action-adventure, the corruption, corporate machinery gone berserk and so on, the heart of all this is a morality tale. It`s like Beauty and the Beast, or the Tin Man of The Wizard of Oz. It`s a great littl...
Peter Weller
I do think that kids today miss out on a lot of those guidelines. Parents are always at work; school doesn`t necessarily give the framework; politicians are all corruption and scandal; even sporting heroes are tainted with drugs and what have you. Rules a...
Luc Besson
Most of life is tragic. You`re born, you don`t know why. You`re here, you don`t know why. You go, you die. Your family dies. Your friends die. People suffer. People live in constant terror. The world is full of poverty and corruption and war and Nazis and...
Woody Allen
Whilst it may be too early for us to widen our investigation into the arena of corruption, I certainly have not ruled this out. I have indicated to you that many of the individuals that you wished to hear evidence from may be the very people that could be...
Arthur Chang
Wherever you see a man who gives someone else`s corruption, someone else`s prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.
Alison Nordstrom
When you find your heart secure, presumptuous and proud, then pour upon corruption more than grace: then look upon your grace without infirmities.
Alan Kaufman
When people who are seeking change start out, they are driven by commitment to a cause. But as internecine power struggles take over, one-time idealists fall prey to corruption. They become just as corrupt and manipulative as the system that they want to ...
Anurag Kashyap
When I travel throughout the town, what I`m hearing from residents far and wide is that the most pressing issue facing the town is corruption,
Brian Foley
We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief.
Jeff Miller
Until we can fully grasp the extent of corruption and fraud involved in the administration of the Oil-for-Food program, and until the United Nations decides to cooperate in the investigation, no American taxpayer dollars should go to the United Nations.
John Ensign
This is not just about homosexuality or homosexual acts -- it`s about an agenda and subculture that is in direct conflict with the teachings of the Catholic Church, ... Goodbye, Good Men: How liberals Brought Corruption Into the Catholic Church.
Michael Rose
This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are ...
Alleggrie Guinn
Therefore, until the day I die, I am going to do what I can, regardless of the cost to me, to try to stop this awful corruption that is destroying our beloved democracy.
Alison O`Connor
The story of Chicago is more than a record of crime and corruption; it is the story of the lives of strong men and women inspired by faith.
Paul Harris