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"Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them."
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"Pure honesty" is dead in a jungle of eternal, bloody impunity, rampant corruption and dirty politics."
"Humans do worse things with money rather than for money."
"It is my expectation that if I call 911 for the police that I will be blatantly harassed."
"It has been my personal experience that the government engages in a wide range of frauds with the common people."
"To survive in a corrupt country, you need to be the son of a king or be king yourself."
"I think we need to start with Philadelphia and make sure that we actually get some election reform in Philadelphia. Actually, a recent election was thrown out by a federal judge because of corruption with the voting process in Philadelphia."
"The devil would be powerless if he couldn't entice people to do his work. So as long as money continues to seduce the hungry, the hopeless, the broken, the greedy, and the needy, there will always be war between brothers."
"The USA legal system is designed to enrich lawyers, protect the government and corporations, and shaft the general public."
"Obviously, a lot of people involved with Volkswagen's emissions were aware of the diesel car software cheat. One has to wonder how many of them tried to stop it and perhaps were demoted or lost their jobs over trying to prevent the secret Volkswagen car emissions fraud?"
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"The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics."
"There are a few things that people all around the world need to admit to themselves. Trade restraints slow economic growth, the euro is not a reserve currency, and scoreless sports ties are boring."
"We loved cars until the '70s or so. Then they became appliances. They turned into motorized cup holders. Most of it has to do with urban sprawl. What began as pleasure ends up in necessity, as so many things do."
"People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'"
"Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power."
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