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God doesn't bribe, child. He just makes a sign and lets people take it as they will.
The new political gospel: public office is private graft.
Are you blind or bought?
The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind's great bribe.
Honesty stands at the gate and knocks, and bribery enters in.
A gift without a heart behind it is a bribe. God asks for our heart, not our gifts.
Bribery is against the law, and you know it. But it's not against the law to make a profit, is it? So it can't be against the law for me to bribe someone in order to make a fair profit, can it? No, of course not!
William Andrews Clark was caught in a bribery scandal during a campaign for the U.S. Senate - he was said to describe the Montana legislators this way: 'I never bought a man who wasn't for sale.'
Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
Rather than let their product compete fully and fairly in the marketplace, FalconStor resorted to bribery and graft to win important contracts in a scheme that reached the highest levels of the company.
Mischief Managed.
Dis is bribery, is it?" he whispered. "This is taxation,
Didn't we all grow up understanding that bribes and payoffs - - by whatever name or rationale - - were bad. And that people were supposed to be the focal point of society, not money?
American Hustle shows the FBI making real-life bribes to Washington politicians. I know, because as your U.S. senator, I turned them down.
What, shall one of us, That struck for the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers
shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honors For so much trash as may be grasped thus?
If bribery is good enough for Congress, it's good enough for me.
The only righteous thing on the face of the earth is death. No one has ever bribed their way out of that. The earth takes us all: the good, the evil and the sinners. And that's all the justice you'll find in this world.
It's foul what this money could do, cash corrupts the loyal.
Upon the exposure of his bribery, it is reported he said, I should have paid more.
A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.
The whole f**king system is corrupt.
I put myself up for full professor, an act of such unprecedented and unmitigated arrogance that the committee approved it, thus effectively rooting me to the scene of the crime, too weighed down by tenure, rank, and salary to be marketable ever again.
Glory, the casual gift of thoughtless crowds!
Glory, the bribe of avaricious virtue!
For any politician who didn't enter office a wealthy man, nothing says 'I take bribes' like a Rolex watch.
I funded this guy [Ted Cruz]. I gave him a check.
In Russia no one is surprised when an official accepts a bribe while at the same time portraying the state as some sacred entity to which the bourgeois should pay homage. This all sounds absurd. But for Russians it is completely normal.
Rewards corrupt the unprincipled.
Some of you rich men have to be taught that all the world cannot be bribed into condoning your offences. Sherlock Holmes, The Problem of Thor Bridge
Dark money has turned our elections into auctions
tried to raise money for him, to enhance
It was a nice bit of blackmail that kept him off my back, but he refused to take the message that I wasn't going to work for him. 'Course, that might be my fault ... since I seemed unable to say no when he waved enough money at me.
We must stop calling bribes in our higher institutions "helping my child to gain admission.
Those who willingly accept being conned are as corrupt as those who con them.
After the 1970s, when President Nixon's illegal campaign cash was used as a secret slush fund to pay for the Watergate burglary and cover-up, Americans have demanded to know where the money fueling our elections is coming from.
A fool and his money are soon elected
[the downfall of our political system is the] buying and selling of politicians ... bribery. In the private sector, you're arrested for it. In the public sector, it's the norm ...
This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade.
Accept little bribes,
and you have little integrity.
Reject some bribes,
and you have selective integrity.
Reject every bribe,
and you have great integrity.
Send me to jail in 48 hours if I am corrupt.
Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.
It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
f You received without paying; give without pay.
Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.
For hostile word let hostile word be paid.
You can't bribe me with pie." Before he'd finished the sentence, his stomach grumbled loudly in a plea for the pie.
The men grinned.
"We all know you're a pie ho," Mr. Elroy said.
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
Manipulated, one manipulates others.
I'm only a poor corrupt official.
The scandalous question that hangs over modern government and excites perpetual outrage is about political money and what it buys. What exactly do these contributors get in return for the hundreds of thousands, even millions of dollars they funnel to the politicians?
an appointment with a local property tycoon who got into trouble with some Armenian gang members because he didn't want to pay them
When you accept dirty money you become spineless
A government with all this mass of favours to give or to withhold, however free in name, wields a power of bribery scarcely surpassed by an avowed autocracy, rendering it master of the elections in almost any circumstances but those of rare and extraordinary public excitement.
I'm for everyone having the opportunity to accept a $150,000 bribe.
Given in love. Defiled by remorse.
Anybody who knows me knows my vote can't be bought.
Beware the beguiled, they do their own beguiling.
Bribes are the glue that's kept teenagers and parents connected for generations
I will give you what you asked for." "I beg your pardon, I haven't asked for anything!" "Yes, you have! Twice now. My pardon. I give it you. In fact I will go so far as to send you on this adventure. Very amusing for me, very good for you - and profitable too, very likely, if you ever get over it.
A corruption of intentions.
I have tried my hand at bribery, blackmail, and deceit. And I've served time for everything, cept beggin on the street.
The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them.
Flattery, though a base coin, is the necessary pocket money at court; where, by custom and consent, it has obtained such a currency that it is no longer a fraudulent, but a legal payment.
Corruption is something you face all the time. Avoid it.
Power required corruption, and corruption rewarded power.
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
Honey," Bessie's mamma used to say, "politicians and judges and coppers are money-grubbing thieves. They'll screw you, and rob you, and win elections for doing it, but there's no way around them. Smile and pay the sonsabitches off." The
Death takes no bribes.
When one sense has been bribed the others readily bear false witness.
Indeed, bribery, favoritism, and corruption in a great variety of forms were rampant not only in politics, but in all levels of society.
I took a hundred dollars from a blindman's hand.
The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity.
As worms are used to bait fish; bribes are used to ensnare fools.
Had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or in behalf of any of their friends ... every man in this court would have deemed it an act worthy of reward rather than punishment.
Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day.
When I was in prison, a Colombian drug lord, offered me $5 million in cash to manipulate a computer system so that he would be released. I turned him down.
shady businessmen and corrupt government
All my life I have fought corruption.
No bribes. Nothing that passes under the roof of a temple Or under the roof of the mouth, can appease heaven's anger Or deflect its aim.
An honest politician is one that stays bought.
I can't be bought. I don't need to be bought. I'm not a careerist. I don't need to have a career in politics. I'm in a very, very luxurious position, but I am in a position of strength.
The villain's censure is extorted praise.
Do I get paid, too?'
'Yes,' he said without hesitation. This scared me, because Crawley gave money like bulls gave milk: not at all, and you get gored for asking. If he had already decided this was a paying job, it must be horrible beyond words.
But in Africa bureaucrats are usually too proud to accept a bribe, something I admire when I'm not the one being arrested.
It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment.
The money, as promised, was in the trunk of the general's official
I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got.
It's okay to bribe people with books, right?
Sometimes the unexpected does happen. Once, this exquisite woman fell for me. After we made love, she gave me a check for a hundred dollars. I said, "Honey, I don't get paid for sex." She said, "This is hush money."
Salaries are a huge area of corruption.
Today fraudulent research and corruption are sadly becoming more commonplace. The case of Poul Thorsen, for example, stands out in terms of shameless audacity - stealing grant money meant for autism research.
When candidates have asked me for support before, they have asked for more than a check.
At once they were absolutely silenced, for money talks in an eloquent voice. Deliberately
Thus was I recruited, and thus would I be ruined: for a penny.
Blackmail.
It was the socially-approved equivalent of blow me, and I'll get you some of the good stuff.
The Judas of the West has closed the contract and will receive the thirty pieces of silver ... Was there ever witnessed such a bare faced corruption in any country before?
The whole point of the system is to bribe you with the leftovers of what they have stolen from you in the first place.
Do you know that the tendrils of graft and corruption have become mighty interlacing roots so that even men who would like to be honest are tripped and trapped by them?
During my 8 years in office, I set up a special investigatory branch as part of the highest court level. As it happened, from the time I set it up until now, I'm the one who has been investigated under that procedure. Of course, I had not expected this to happen.
Polite beggary is too common.