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"Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt."
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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."
"Since when has grafts, bribes to get your children into the higher institution become a Nigerian thing?"
"The first tenet is that you should report corruption regardless of loyalty to incumbent or party."
"Very few of the common people realize that the political and legal systems have been corrupted by decades of corporate lobbying."
"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."
"The biggest criminals that I have met in life are working for the government. They make mass murderers look like amateurs."
"Therefore, until the day I die, I am going to do what I can, regardless of the cost to me, to try to stop this awful corruption that is destroying our beloved democracy."
"All they do is warm their seats for their long tenures and eventually even their seats get dilapidated with the amount of money they hog in illegally and the only way it comes out is by tilting their huge pot-bellied frames to one side and emitting poisonous gases that not only depreciate their beloved seats but also the nation as a whole and then they shout 'Global Warming.' Hallelujah!"
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"When you become part of something, in some way you count. It could be a march; it could be a rally, even a brief one. You're part of something, and you suddenly realize you count. To count is very important."
"That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic."
"With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven."
"If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have."
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