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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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"If you have bought the law enforcement department, then you have done nothing wrong when you willfully break multiple laws."
"Humans do worse things with money rather than for money."
"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
"I did not make any big speeches but acted upon working against corruption"
"The Democratic Party would like to be re-elected so that they can continue to uphold almost no Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) whistle-blower complaints, enforce hardly any police internal affairs allegations, and corrupt corporations with lobbyists can continue operating outside of the law."
"Law enforcement are the facilitators of corporate fraud."
"A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people, but those of multinational corporations."
"Any system that values profit over human life is a very dangerous one indeed. Simply put, it lacks values, and such a system will eventually collapse once its true light is discovered by the masses. Though some say that capitalism is a modern system, corruption has been the source for the demise of every great civilization."
"Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase."
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"Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human."
"The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then a one-room apartment above it. There's street after street after street of that stuff."
"America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased."
"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators."
"The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health and retirement benefits working on the General Livestock Corporation assembly line putting udders on cows."
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