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"The kind of corruption the media talk about, the kind the Supreme Court was concerned about, involves the putative sale of votes in exchange for campaign contributions."
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"What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is People want to get something for nothing."
"Since when has grafts, bribes to get your children into the higher institution become a Nigerian thing?"
"If you have bought the law enforcement department, then you have done nothing wrong when you willfully break multiple laws."
"When the police willfully break the law on video and then deny the event in writing, you know that you are dealing with a blatantly corrupt group of people."
"Corrupt utility companies require a corrupt legal system to protect them from their own sickened workers and the masses."
"The USA legal system is designed to enrich lawyers, protect the government and corporations, and shaft the general public."
"Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them."
"The Trust movie it has shown how one picture could be twisted and even how the cops are dirty!"
"Pure honesty" is dead in a jungle of eternal, bloody impunity, rampant corruption and dirty politics."
"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."
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"One camp accepts the Court's limits on contributions but urges the reinstatement of spending caps - even if this requires a constitutional amendment subjecting political speech, if not pornography, to government regulation."
"I am persuaded that in the case of elected officials, the overwhelming temptation is to conclude that it is more important for your constituents that you be reelected than that you deal honestly with them."
"It would seem, therefore, that this constitutional safeguard may no longer serve its original purpose, especially when, as we learned last year, some acts of perjury may now be acceptable - in this world, at least, if not the next."
"What distinguishes the campaign finance issue from just about every other one being debated these days is that the two sides do not divide along conventional liberal/ conservative lines."
"They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the face of polls suggesting that the public itself may have quite a different understanding of where its interest lies."
"What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes."
"In the last analysis, of course, an oath will encourage fidelity in office only to the degree that officeholders continue to believe that they cannot escape ultimate accountability for a breach of faith."
"Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them."
"I had hoped that the current presidential campaign debates might educate the public as to what is really involved in the ongoing controversy over campaign financing."
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