Crooked Politicians Quotes

• Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep.

  Ray Davies

  Money, Tired, Men

  Song: Money And Corruption / I Am Your Man

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• Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.

  Steve Allen

  Government, Balance, Mafia

  Steve Allen (1994). “Reflections”

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• The average politician was crooked. That was my ambition, to be a crooked politician. I'd see them in these restaurants, and they'd all hold these conferences. I'd see politicians who were supposed to be on opposite sides of issues all together at one table.

  Jack Kirby

  Ambition, Average, Opposites

  Source: www.tcj.com

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• In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pin-striped suits, the best people are bare-assed.

  Paul Theroux

  Country, People, Suits

  Paul Theroux (2004). “Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town”, p.343, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The ultimate enemy of Democracy is not the drug dealer of the crooked politician or the crazed skinhead. The ultimate enemy is the New King that has become so powerful it can murder its own citizens with impunity.

  Gerry Spence

  Kings, Powerful, Drug

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• You know there's no crooked politicians. There's never a lie because there is never any truth.

  Lenny Bruce

  Lying, Politician, Crooked

  Lenny Bruce (2016). “How to Talk Dirty and Influence People: An Autobiography”, p.132, Hachette UK

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• No public man can be just a little crooked.

  Herbert Hoover

  Men, Littles, Crooked

  Herbert Hoover (1955). “Addresses Upon the American Road, 1950-1955”

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• Don't get depressed when you read the press about world revolution and social unrest. Try not to panic when you switch on the news and see crooked politicians and unemployment queues.

  Ray Davies

  Social Unrest, Trying, Unemployment

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• The cross, as poignant as it is, is understandable from a human perspective: an innocent man was murdered by crooked politicians and religious leaders. But the empty tomb-- what can you say? Only a supernatural God could accomplish that.

  Jim Cymbala

  Religious, Men, Innocent Man

  Jim Cymbala (2010). “Fresh Wind Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People”, p.160, ReadHowYouWant.com

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